9 months old!!!

**I have tried and tried to figure this picture thing out. FYI~ these are from today, but are obviously out of order, with no captions, and out of place. Bear with me. Be sure you pay close attention to sweet Bennett hugging Simms after her foot prick. And check out that boy's white keds!!**Our sweet baby turned 9 months old today! I just cannot believe it! It seems like just yesterday we were at the hospital with all of Simms' grandparents, great grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, you name it, they were there, waiting on her to be born. It was such an exciting day, and I was so happy all day, but no one could have told me how happy, thankful and excited Dru and I would be at 6:31 p.m. when we saw Simms' sweet face for the first time! It seems like we blinked and now she is 9 months old! Our lives are filled with tons of excitement now and so much love for this little baby! She isn't crawling yet, but at her dr.'s appointment today her peditrician said she thought Simms would walk before she crawled. She has been standing on her own now for about 15-20 secs! It is so much fun to watch! She is eating solids of course and we've been told we can introduce some table foods to her (with only 1 tooth:-) ).
We started our day off by loading up both babies (Sissy and Bennett) and me and Simms, and headed to Columbus for Simms' appointment. She is weighing in at 19.5 lbs. (60 percentile) and she is 27 in. long (35 percentile) so she is KIND OF getting a little longer and leaner. We love her being as chunky as she can be! The dr. said she looked wonderful (of course!) and was as healthy as can be! She had a foot prick for her hemoglobin test and those numbers were great too! We can switch out one feeding a day now with real milk, but I think I want to wait for that! It seems too grown-up! She goes back in November, and tear, tear, she will be 1 year by that point! I cannot believe it! I took her to babies r' us after the dr. and got her a walker and a toy piano for being such a big girl! (Not really, she sqwaled the entire visit, but I can't blame her)! She thinks she is so growny in her walker!
Daddy and I love you so much Simms! We are so blessed by you in our lives and love you more and more each day!!! Happy 9 months!!