Our Sampson Family: 9 Months!

At 9 months:

Anna is crawling everywhere and into everything! She's pretty fast, especially when she's trying to keep up with her big sister.
She pulls herself up on her knees, and earlier this week she pulled herself up to standing using the coffee table at Zilla and Bampers'!
She has mastered clapping and is just starting to wave.
She has two teeth on the bottom. The second one came up about 2 weeks after the first.
Anna loves the water, just like her big sister. We go to the lake a lot and she loves splashing around, trying to eat sand, and just smiles when Grace splashes her. She likes when I take her out in deeper water and "swim" her around.
She is a big fan of going on the swing at the playground.
She loves to talk and she is loud! Grace was also very vocal at this age but Anna likes to yell everything. I think she just wants to be heard over her sister!
She's making all of the Da, Ma, Ba, Ga, and other sounds, and putting them together. She always seems to be trying so hard to talk to us! She says Mama and Dada but not yet specifically for us.
She's eating better and almost exclusively feeds herself. Once in a while she will let me spoon feed her.
Her pincer grasp is great and she can pick up anything we put on her tray. She's also good at finding and picking up the smallest pieces of lint or tiny rocks brought in on our shoes.
She's growing out of her 6-12 month clothes. Time to move up a size! She wears size 3 diapers.