Almost 9 months!

Well lets back up... John finished his first semester of Nursing school at MATC a couple of weeks ago.  (1 down 3 to go, Wahoo!!)   It was kind of annoying because they pushed his finals back a week, but now they're over and we're enjoying spending more time together!  Near the end of the May my sister had a condo at Snowbird that they couldn't stay at for the full time, so they invited John and I to stay a couple nights so it didn't go to waste.  We had a good time relaxing and took Deja swimming for the first time!  

View from the Hot Tub/Balcony

My other sister Meri and her family were in town from Arizona for about a week and a half, so we had a couple family dinners/game nights with the DuPaix side.  Some of us also went to the Outback Steakhouse for my brother-in-law, Christian's birthday.  Yum!  We gave Deja a lemon to taste during the meal, but she didn't react at all... I think she actually liked it because it was nice and cool on her gums, haha.

I was laughing so hard at Christian during this pic, haha.

On the last Sunday of the month, John and I sang an arrangement of "I Need Thee Every Hour" in sacrament meeting and Aunt Caroline accompanied us.  It went well, but because of it, they asked John to sub for the chorister in Primary for the following week.  (They had a special meeting for all the women in the ward, so they put the men in charge for the last hour of primary).  He said it went well for the most part, but it was basically just him singing for 25 minutes straight.  I have been hiking with my friends a lot lately since the weather has been nice.  Deja enjoys the hikes, but usually falls asleep on the way down.  

Memorial Day!

Deja's many flesh bracelets ;)

Now to this almost 9-month old!  (We are going to St. George this next week, so I wanted to do this post before we left). Her stat's from the doctor were as follows: Weight 19.4lbs (64%), Length about 28 inches (about 60%), and Head 17.1 inches (37%)...Her head has gone down in percentile at our last 4 appointments, kinda funny.  Other new things with her are:

• She has almost perfected her form for crawling but is still pretty slow... which is ok with me :)
• She loves clapping and waving and will usually copy John and I when we do it. 
• She will spit her binky right out when I tell her it's time to eat, haha.  She loves her food.  For the longest time when she was crawling around she wouldn't put foreign objects in her mouth when she was sucking on her binky, but a couple days ago it clicked that she could spit it out to put something else in :(  I was so sad.  Now I'm going to watch her more closely.  The binky-blocker was good while it lasted!!  
• She had a major cold the last two weeks.  We've used the humidifier a lot and went through a ton of tissues.  The saddest part of her cold was that she sounded like Darth Vader-baby because she wouldn't cough up the junk, but it's getting better :)
• She has started climbing and can get up to her knees and sometimes up to standing.
• She's getting pretty good at turning the pages in books (while I hold down the other pages).
• We love her lots