9 Months Old!

Elah is now 9 months old, can you believe it? Its hard for me to. She is learning so much so fast.
Since my last post back in August, she has cut four teeth, learned to crawl, and can pull herself up on just about anything. But my favorite thing by far that she just started doing is when I get home from work and open the door, she looks at me with those big eyes, smiles real big, and goes "DA DA DA DA". My heart melts every time.
I started a new job and I get off now at 5:30 in the afternoon, so I have plenty of time to play with her, and to be with Sarah. I have a routine now, that I'm gonna call the Daddy Routine. Basically when I get home we eat supper and I play with her till about 7:30. Then I give her a bath which she loves. Pretty funny cause she hated bath time a few months ago.
Then after that I put her night time diaper on her and put her Pj's on and we sit in the glider rocker and I'll read her two books. Right now I think her two favorite books are "Goodnight Moon" and "Baby I Love You".
She just started to pucker her lips and give kisses, so last night while I was reading baby I love you I had to stop before I turned the page so she could kiss the picture of the baby. Then she would lean her head back and look at me with that toothy grin and I would say "aw sweet baby" Then  would read the next page.
As I said at the beginning of the post, she has learned to crawl, that's good, and bad all at the same time.
She can occupy herself more now that she can get around. But she also likes to get into EVERYTHING!
I think right now her favorite thing to get into is the entertainment center where we keep our old VHS tapes.
Elah is something else. Shes growing up way to fast, which is exciting cause I'm looking forward to all the times we have together when shes older, but its sad because I miss her being that little baby we brought home from the hospital.
God has truly blessed us more than we deserve, I love being a daddy, and this is only the beginning.