Nine Months

Our baby girl is 9 months old! According to the doctor, you act more like a one year old than a nine month old. You know what you like, you are very vocal, determined, funny, sweet, and just down right hilarious. Luke is the best dad, and you are daddy's girl for sure.
This past month we watched you take off! I know I already mentioned you started walking on 9-26, but on October 7th you learned how to get up from the floor without having to pull up. There is no stopping you now!
Mommy is trying desperately to end her milk supply (and having a lot of trouble getting it to go away), so you still prefer breast milk, but we have added in two formula bottles a day now. I think we might actually make it this entire time without having to buy any formula.
In terms of food, you do like a good variety of things, but after trying out all of the brands, you are a PLUM girl for sure. They have the strangest combinations of foods (like cherry, sweet corn, and greek yogurt...but you like it, A LOT). In terms of table food, you love to eat what we eat, and going forward I'm looking forward to feeding you a lot more of what we are already having.
You are a very friendly baby who does not hesitate when handed to other people.
I was a horrible mom and didn't get any good pictures of you without your dress already being a wrinkled mess, but you had a wonderful support system of family show up for your dedication at the church. It was so sweet that you got dedicated with your friend Celia Adams.
This past weekend you attended your first ever Dorman family barn dance. This is a big Dorman deal, so I am excited you had a great time dancing to the music already. It was wonderful to spend time with your great grandparents too.
You've got six teeth now, and I feel like you are always working on another.
We took you to Petite Feet in Savannah for your first ever pair of shoes (that were not consignment or hand me down...actually sized to your feet). You walk better barefoot, but are getting the hang of this shoe thing. You wear a size four shoe, size 3 diaper, and 9-12 month clothes (12 month pants though). You also got over your fear of pumpkins, just in time for Halloween!
You are such a blessing, and fill your parents life with amazing JOY!

First shoes!
You also got pretty silver fancy shoes for nicer outfits, but they haven't come in yet!

Still love your window view of the world

WE LOVE YOU LANE!

Lane and Celia before dedication- Dress was originally your Honey's dress

Waving your hands in time to the music!

Dancing at the barn dance!

With cousin Mary Alice /check out that hair!

With Aunt Jenna and Uncle Prem 

With cousin Lily 

Busted in Momma's shoes 

You LOVE playing with the drapes! 

Riding with Daddy at the Farm

Hanging with Great Grandaddy 

Daddy, Honey, Gramps, and Great Grandparents

Farm Girl 

Great Grandparents 

You are way off the charts tall right now!

Same Head

Pretty similar weight

Data for Papa ;)

Fall

It's officially Fall, even though that doesn't mean much in Savannah, Georgia. We have had the air off for a couple of days with the windows open, but today it's back hot as ever.
Today we took Lane to her first ever pumpkin patch. She was NOT a fan! She basically hung on to me, Luke, Gran, or Papa when we attempted to set her down. So...she is going to have to get over this pumpkin fear before we head to the farm next week for the 4th annual Dorman family barn dance, where I know pumpkins will be on site. It was such a shock that Lane was not into the pumpkin patch. She is very chill and hasn't really disliked anything before, so...I hope it was just an off day instead of the start to major separation anxiety. She hasn't shown any signs of that with new people or the nursery though, so I'm just not sure what to think.
For major milestone news: Lane's 5th tooth, on the bottom left, broke through on September 14th, and Lane took her first 4+ steps on September 26th. I knew she would be an early walker, but I did not know she would beat my record. I walked at nine months, and I guess Lane just had to out do Mama. She gets better and braver every day!
Tomorrow we are dedicating Lane in the church. Our church does not believe in baptizing babies, but we do make a formal dedication as parents to raise our children knowing and loving the Lord. Our church family is wonderful here, and we have been fortunate enough to find great life friends. I will be sure to put up pictures of Lane's special day with her nine month blog (yikes that is coming up next week--tear).
I am going to blame Kathryn Grassmeyer (seriously check out her ETSY barefoot decor store #AWESOME) for this next little admission. I don't want it to arrive yet...because I am FOR SURE not rushing Lane's life any faster than it is already flying by, but I do already have her first birthday theme planned, and the cake that I am going to try and bake picked out. Lane's first birthday will be all about polka dots!!! Polka dot balloons, polka dot cake, basically polka dots everywhere. You'll see the cake in the photos below.
For Halloween I cannot justify $20 for a Halloween costume. Our church does have a festival where you take the babies out in costume, but that is the only place at this point that I know we'll be attending. So...lucky for me already own all of the items for Lane to be a beautiful ballerina. We have the cutest ballet shoes and tutu. I am looking forward to dressing her up as the the cutest little ballerina around. The hair and bun issue is what I am going to be struggling with. Not sure what I am going to do with that yet.
Here is the picture purge and Happy Fall Ya'll!

This is the cake I am going to bake for Lane's Birthday! 

So cute even with a baby doll hat on! 

Here is a shot of her ballet slippers--In the words of Rachel Zoe "I die"

Standing in the pumpkin maze 

I love this shot with Daddy

Family Photo 1 

Family Photo 2

Papa and Luke working their roping skills

Gran, Papa, Luke, and Lane watching the pig races

Family Photo 3 (what Lane thought most of the time)

Sitting in a field of pumpkins

8 Months

Guess what day it is??? It's HUMP DAY...and Lane's 8 month birthday! It also happens to be her Gramps birthday too! Wes (Luke's dad) has not officially decided on what he wants to be called, but I was watching the Bernstein Bears (don't judge) and I heard the term Gramps and liked it. So I recommended that, but we'll have to see if it sticks. My parent's are Gran and Papa and Luke's mom is Honey, so Honey and Gramps sounds cute don't you think?
In Dorman family news, Luke is still on the job hunt these days. He is working with our friend Matthew Johns, a custom home builder running two renovation jobs he has going right now. The last time Luke got to play superintendent he LOVED it. I think this will be a good chance for him to see if this is really something he might want to do long term. He has a whole host of options we've been running through recently, so please pray for guidance down the right path. We are fortunate that he has some different paths to choose from, but man it's tough to decide on what will hopefully be the dream job!
I had my first MOPS meeting of the season!! We had a wonderful turn out that makes me even more excited about what we have planned for the rest of the year.
Another big news item for the Dorman family is Lasik for Luke. I really did think he was super cute in his glasses, but I think he is much happier with vision. I made him take a ton of pictures with the glasses on right before the surgery. He had surgery on August 28th and everything seems great! They actually let me sit in the room and watch the surgery... It was cool and gross all at the same time.
Before I cover Lane, I need to share what a sweet surprise my husband had for my 30th birthday. The actual day of my birthday we took it easy and had a romantic candlelight dinner at home. The 31st was the opening to football season, so we had some friends over that morning for a boat ride and then planned to watch football all late afternoon and evening by ourselves. I had one quick errand to run at the church, but told Luke I would be back home in about 30 to 45 min. In that short amount of time he had a huge gathering of our friends show up, park who knows where, and wait in my kitchen to surprise me on my return. I really was SO SHOCKED! Everyone had prepared awesome dishes of food, and hung out to watch football at our house for the night. We set up two TV's down stairs like college kids and had a blast. Thank you to everyone who came and made my big 30 so special. My only regret was not making myself a little more attractive before I went to run my errand.
Now to what you really want to know about! Lane is working on her 5th tooth breaking through on the bottom right. She LOVES to eat puffs and cheerios, and basically anything she gets to pick up and feed herself with. She still loves her momma's milk the best though. I was planning to pump till 6 months, but now I've decided 9 months. It really isn't too bad now that I have gotten down to only 2 pumps a day, and still have enough milk for her to drink. She is a super fast crawler, major climber, and assisted walker. She can climb the stairs now, and loves to walk around the house pushing a diaper box. She will walk for a short amount of time with me holding on to just one of her hands but does not really like that yet. She furniture cruises like a champ and doesn't realize danger anywhere. We have had a lot of bumps and bruises this month learning how to move around. She puts EVERYTHING in her mouth (including a bug she found on our floor). Lane is just one happy baby!

The trio had another play date!

Sleeping on Papa

Boat ride with Papa 

LOVE 

Sleeping on Uncle Clint too!

Cam Newton Jersey from Lisa Carlton

Waving hello to everyone!

Sleeping on Daddy

First busted lip- crawling over me on the ground, she fell into the floor with her teeth cutting the lip 

When Daddy watches Lane I come home to this!

Lane never sleeps at the church nursery because she is so nosey, so I had to take a picture of her in rare form! I LOVE the ladies that watch her at the church. 

At Bonna Bella for Grandparents Day 

Queen of the wagon!

Uncle Ben had a birthday yesterday! 

Typical look with that hair that stands straight up! 

You want to take away my toy and have me sit still for a photo???? End of the WORLD!

All you get is ONE PHOTO LADY!

Sweet friend Harris

MOPS Moms! They are some of my best friends now