Well Leah is nine months old today. How to describe her? Adorable, pleasant, smart. She pulls up, walks along whatever she's pulled up on, plays the piano after pulling up on it. Her sleeping is improving greatly - usually just getting up once a night to eat, which I accept gratefully. She loves to eat and is still nursing! She loves looking at pictures of our family. She loves her siblings. She has one tooth, with another one that is stubbornly refusing to break through. She loves to play "roll the ball back and forth," occasionally substituting a plastic potato from the kids' kitchen if no ball can be found. Peekaboo is another favorite. And she lives for bath time. We hadn't planned anything special to commemorate this day. Just an extra squeeze, perhaps, and some vaccines on Monday. We did give her spaghetti for the first time last night, come to think of it. She dug. She had bigger plans, though. She saw her chance this afternoon while I was spaced out re...