Now we have reached our 9 month milestone, although we haven’t made a lot of progress on weight and she is shrinking. The winter has been hard on Sofia, with a rash of day care illnesses including rotovirus, a couple of colds, a sinus infection, dueling earaches and now – cocksackie – whatever that is. We even had a fun trip to the ER (numero dos) to get some fluids due to excessive dehydration from the rotovirus. As a result, Sofia is still a whopping 3% weight and now 30% height. Oh well, guess she takes after her mom. However, she is making huge strides in other areas. She says “dadda” and waves hello to me when I get home. She is eating all kinds of food including bananas, avocados and all of those made up baby foods (spinach lasagna and prunes and rice – who made that marketing decision!). She is also crawling backwards and starting to pull herself to standing up.