Janelle has learnt how to help me mop the floor with her clean hanky and T-shirt! She happily grabbed her hanky in one hand, her T-shirt in the other, and went crawling round the whole house - mopping the floor in the traditional way!
Time flies and she is now 10 months old! She now learns things real fast and is getting cheekier and naughtier by the day!
"Boo - hoo! Some people have said that I look like a balding old man! *sob sob* I'm not an old man! I'm barely 10 months old!! I just have very little hair, especially on the top of my head. Will you pray for me that I'll have more hair?"
For more of Janelle's funny expressions, check out her 9-month-old photo album.
No more pacifier for Janelle! She has self-weaned from it after 9 months of depending on it to soothe herself to sleep. A good time to wean off pacifier considering her teeth are popping out, plus her current pacifiers are getting a little old and grubby - so I don't have to buy new ones!
Time to throw all her pacifiers away! But perhaps I'll keep one - just in case! 
Janelle is learning things fast and thought I should keep a record of what she can do at 9.5 months old.
Motor skills:
- crawl
- cruise round furniture
- pull herself to stand, and ALMOST able to get into standing position from a sitting position without any support (my, she has strong legs!)
- walk with support
- stand without support
- pick up small little pieces of food to feed herself
Hand Signals:
- bye bye
- no more!
- Praise the Lord
- clap hands
- friend-kiss
- point at things
Language:
- Daddy (first word)
- daa-daa-daa (like a broken recorder)
- some other strange-sounding stuff that I can't quite make out
Other behaviour:
- Loves to kiss us! Her kiss is simply wet and yucky. She hasn't figured how to pucker her lips to kiss yet, so she opens her mouth wide with tongue sticking out and plants a big fat wet kiss on our cheeks/lips/anywhere!
- Will "sing" to herself just before she falls asleep. When she starts her "singing", it's a signal that she's sleepy and wants to sleep.
- An extremely loud voice for a baby. Highly embarrassing when we bring her out and she starts "daa-daa-ing" away at the top of her voice.
- Loves to kiss her reflection in the mirror (especially the mirror behind our main door of house). As a result, my mirrors are all smudged with her fingerprints and saliva!
- Ransacking all my drawers/cabinets within her reach. Her all-time favourite cabinet is my accessories-cabinet in our masterbedroom. It is very low - at her height when she crawls - and hence well within her reach. She'll slide open the cabinet and start ransacking all my boxes containing accessories. Once, she kept a ribbon in her mouth for goodness-knows-how-long before I discovered it. Thank God she did not attempt to swallow it!
- Laughs / smiles when we (adults) laugh! She sure knows how to appreciate jokes :)
Realised that our little girl is really growing up fast!
