9 months: Bevin Jean

She eats....

She sleeps....

She still loves to be worn...

She is crawling and cruising...

She already loves to wrestle with her brother...

She still hates the car...

I know! So sad, right? And don't even try to soothe her while in the car! She'll just cry more while pleading "Why are you not holding me???!!" It makes no sense to her and just upsets her further.

She has such an amazing personality. She knows what she wants and when she wants it and lets us know each and every time. She's still really big on being held, and I get the sense that that attachment to us is something that will manifest itself in different ways throughout her life. I know she'll be independent, but I think she'll want to remain close to us. 

I love how she holds your gaze and gives you the biggest and sweetest smile. 

I love how her two little front teeth look in that smile. 

I love how that smile lights up 100 more watts when Cole pays attention to her. 

I love how much she loves him. 

And I love how he loves her. 

The other night I was holding them both and saying goodnight to Cole. He was giving us kisses. Then after he realized her open mouth was actually how she knew hot to kiss, he gave her a bigger kiss back and said "yuv you Bevin."  

Nursing and pumping and loving these moments.

I miss my baby girl during the week so when it's the weekend I really don't care where we are or who's watching. I no longer cover up and I try to treasure every moment. I captured this moment in particular yesterday when we were apple and raspberry picking at a local organic farm. 

After we were done, a father and his children came over to play on the tractor we were sitting next to. He offered to take a picture since he saw me trying to get some more selfies in. 

Both these pictures are a far cry from the places I pump, but my pumping locations have gotten fancier in the past four weeks thanks to me getting sick (and tired) from pumping in the nurse's sick room. I now pump in three places throughout the 6 day cycle - the school psychologist's office, the social worker's office and the library media room. 

I broke down and bought a Medela again because my Ameda officially shit the bed and I felt like the extra one I had just wasn't pumping fast enough for me. Good move because this pump in style is totally doing the job.  And my new pumping digs are much cleaner.  Yay for no more sick room.