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Well, things have changed considerably around here in the last 2 weeks or so. Anya has mastered the art of crawling…..and it is keeping Mommy & Daddy on their toes! The first few days she seemed to stayed confined to the comfort of the carpet in the livingroom, but has now decided she needs full access to the house. It is so cute watching her make her way from one room to the next and I am amazed at how fast she can get her little arms and legs moving. And, crawling is not where her new activities stops. She is now also pulling up on the couches, chairs, cabinets….basically anything she can get a grip on to hoist herself up. She “cruises” a bit back and forth the length of the couch, but is basically just happy standing up and watching everyone else move around. Occasionally she takes a hard trip to the floor, but I guess that is all part of the learning process–good thing she has a cushy diaper to land on most of the time.

Tonight I made monster cookies and they are yummy! The house smells nice and sweet too….keeps reminding me that the cookies are in there to eat! Oh, and Jason and I learned something while making the cookies. I accidently used baking “powder” in the cookies and the recipe called for baking “soda”–so Jason did alittle research on the internet and found out some useful information. The sources we found said you can always substitute baking powder in recipes that call for baking soda, but you can’t substitue baking soda in recipes that call for baking powder. Did you know that? We didn’t, but were very happy to find out that we didn’t have to trash the whole bowl of cookie batter!

Here are some recent pictures of Anya’s new adventures and I posted a few of her 9 month pictures.

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