Springtime with a 9 month old

Cassidy is going through so many changes. She learns more every day. She says quite a few words, usually repeating them after we say them. She says "dada and mama" fairly frequently...dada, much more often than mama since she learned it first. She is also saying the following words or at least something that sounds like them: yay, uh-oh, dog, Ted (one of our cats) and baby.

She is crawling like crazy, pulling herself up into a standing position on everything she can grab and taking a lot of assisted steps. She can't wait to walk. Me, I can definitely wait. She'll be walking by 11 months, I predict.

Additionally, we are not sleeping in the chair with her anymore. If she cries at night, we go in and soothe her for a minute but we don't pick her up. She has slept through the night several time in the past week and last night she woke up and got very fussy. I went in twice and comforted her but basically just let her cry after the second time. It took 11 minutes but she went back to sleep on her own until 7:30am. This is really amazing that we are all sleeping well. I thought ht elight at the end of that tunnel would never come.