Robin Hope : 9 months

This next sequence/gambit of emotion is typical Robin.  

 Such a silly girl!

Even Charlie adores Robin!

I just love my little girl. It's nice to have someone on my team, but also for all her brut-ness, with her super strength and huskier build, she's so sweet and feminine. I love how her hair falls so sweetly and sweeps to the side in the back. I love her blue eyes, pink lips, and chubby cheeks. I love dressing her in cute outfits and putting bows in her hair. I can hardly wait to paint her petite nails a pale pearl pink. I hope I can teacher her the joys and importance of womanhood and the inherent divinity in our gender. Dont' get me wrong I adore my boy beyond words! It's such a blessing to have one of each!

Robin is officially a crawler, no more army crawling. She's up on all fours (belly clean off the ground) and crawling all over the house causing mischief. Especially with the dog bowls ... grrr. She know's she not suppose to play with them, so she flirts with it, waving her hand above it and looking around to make sure we're not looking and then -- SPLISH SPLASH! EW! I guess I can't blame the girl, she loves water, including baths, sippy cups of water, oceans, and apparently dog bowls. But back to the crawling, my favorite is that she will follow people or going looking for them when they leave her sight. I am hoping she'll stat coming when I call her. (Just like training a puppy right? Charlie was good practice.)

Robin is hilarious, expecially when she gets mad. She shakes her head no -- vigorously if it's something she's really upset about and opposed to; like getting in her carseat, having her face wiped, changing her diaper, being swaddled and rocked to sleep, and mixed vegetables. Oh she HATES mixed vegetables. This girl has learned how to communicate her dislikes. Like with her Full body kicks. I call it the fish wiggle, like when they're being suspened in the air by the hook and are thrashing all over. Charlie does a similar thing when he's excited, we call it the fish butt. But for bittty, it's the fish wiggle.

She's just as talented and effective at communicating her happiness and excitement. She wildly flaps her arms and kicks her legs when he's happy. She laughs and giggles, squeals and squawks. She does this funny panting breathing when she's super excited for something. I swear she breathes at the same rate as hummingbird wings flap. Robin loves her family and is quick to laugh and play with us at just the hint of a smile. 

Robin is just so busy, just like River, and is "going" all day long. She's rolling and playing, getting into things and exploring all day long. She's what I can a non-napper, and really a non sleeper too. We're working on it. Things were going a lot better until she started teething :( Hopefully we will all survive this and Robin can learn to start sleeping soon. She's just too worried she'll miss something. She loves to be apart of everything going on and sneakily gets her hands on anything you are working on while holding her. I can't even get out a piece of bread without it becoming a bit of a wrestling match. 

Robin and River are really starting to pay together and she just loves him, laughing at things I thought would for sure bug her. For example, having blankets thrown on her all day long, but she excitedly kicks her legs in true bitty fashion and squawks and giggles until either she finds away out or River sets her free, There's a lot more wrestling going on at my house. It's not rough or mean, but until she can talk it's the way they can engage each other. Mostly they just roll around on the ground next to each other until one rolls on top on the other a little bit. :)

She still loves people -- maybe more appropriately  people watching. We went out to eat the other night and she spent the entire evening literally turned around, feet out the back of her high chair, watching all the other families come and go and eat the dinner. In all fairness, people love to watch Robin too. People are quite drawn to her and interact with her all the time, even though she's actually quite shy with strangers. While we were in Santa Fe last week, we got stopped all the time. I feel so flattered and thankful for people's kindness toward both my children. It does make us a little sad that we don't live close to family, because they don't really get to know Robin like we do. We're kind of the only ones to get to know Robin so intimately, and so that makes it such a treasure. She's such a treasure. She's Our Treasure- Mine, Skyler's and River's.

I love everything about my little Robin bird, from her soft feathery hair down to her smelly hobbit toes (yes, they really are stinky). I love her so much, it makes my heart hurt. She has been challenging at times and as equally rewarding. For all her craziness, She's is doubly, triply, no, quadruply more Sweet and Fun. I just enjoy her so much. 

A sweet boy in the store asked me her name the other day and I loved his response, "Robin, that's perfect with her eyes the color of robin eggs." 

Oh My Robin. My Sweet lil' blue eyes.

How could you ever say no to that face and that request to be picked up??