Some Firsts From Rachel

These last few months have been pretty exciting for Rachel. She is so much fun.

In the beginning of September, she started holding her own food pouch and feeding herself finger foods. She LOVES food! We noticed that she would get a little bit of a rash around her mouth with some foods, so we backed way off from some things and have been keeping it simple. It's hard sometimes though because she always wants to try everything we're eating!

Here's Rachel's first time in a swing from September 10. 

September 26

 September 30--She also figured out how to sit up all by herself on this day

October 1

 October 1

And apparently I haven't taken a video of her crawling after this. The official "Crawls" sticker got placed in her calendar on October 3. She is loving life as a crawler. Her approach to learning how to crawl was so fun to watch because it was so different to how Michael learned to crawl. I love seeing how much their personalities are so different.

Rachel stopped letting me put headbands in her hair a few months back. Anytime I put one in, she takes great pride in taking it off. She holds it above her head with a victory fist pump. But now, her hair is long enough that she can have the cute Pebbles Flintstone pony tail on the top of her head:

She's also recently discovered her tongue.

And, after lots of tears and pain, she cut her first tooth on October 6. Four days later, on October 10, her second tooth arrived, following a couple of days of her first fever. Our poor girl was so miserable! But now, she has two cute little baby teeth, and her toothless-smile days are over. I am both excited that she reached this milestone and incredibly sad. I can't believe how fast she is growing! We are completely and utterly in love with this sweet, sweet girl!