You are 9
months old! That’s ¾ of a year!! This past month has been all about
mobility. You’ve learned how to army
crawl and my goodness, you’re everywhere!
If we’re in a bedroom and Mommy’s leaves to go to the kitchen you follow
her. And now that you’re mobile, you
love to follow your dog all around the house.
It’s like you’re stalking her.
You love to grab her tail and often crack up laughing when you see her. Poor dog can never get a moment’s rest. Daddy has been busy babyproofing the house so
you don’t get into anything dangerous.
We have installed cabinet locks, electrical plug covers, fireplace
padding, and a toilet lock. We’re going
to wait and see what mischief you get into to see if we need anything
else. That fireplace padding will
certainly come in handy because you always make your way over there (although
you’re not supposed to) and often bonk your head. You got your first head bump doing this. You also love the off limits cords behind the
family room table and Nala’s toy basket.
Luckily Mommy has taken care of the cords and Nala doesn’t mind
sharing. You mastered the army crawl at
the beginning of the month and have just started regular crawling now at the
end. You prefer the army crawl though
because you’re faster at it.
Along with
all this crawling, you’ve learned how to go from a sitting position down to
your tummy and from a crawling position to sitting. When you are sitting and we reach down to
pick you up, you now put your arms up in anticipation. You haven’t started pulling up on the
furniture but we assume you’re going to do that soon so we’ve lowered your crib
mattress all the way down to the bottom.
We don’t want you to try to climb out and hurt yourself. It’s definitely more of a struggle to get you
in and out of the crib now. You are
HEAVY. We can’t wait until your upcoming
doctor’s appointment to see how much you weigh.
You seem to
like all your baby food except peaches and anything with texture. Textured foods make you gag and throw
up! You’ve just now started to think
it’s fun to throw things down on the floor from your high chair. We’re constantly picking up the spoons we
give you to practice holding them.
This month
you’ve started babbling “da”, “de”, and “duh” a lot. Last month was all about “wuh” so you’re
adding to your repertoire. You think
it’s pretty funny when Mommy makes a noisy gulping sound or when she hides and
scares you. You seem to be really whiney
sometimes. We think it may be teething
related but we’re not sure. There are times
when you are only happy if you’re being carried around the house but sweetie,
you are just too heavy to do that for any length of time. You are starting to complain when we put you
on the changing table but we can usually give you a toy or the Aquaphor bottle
and you’re happy again.
Taking
pictures of you this month was more of a challenge because you kept trying to
crawl away! Mommy and Daddy were tired
when we were done, but Daddy got some good ones of you. You’re so handsome!!
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