9 Months!

I think I say this every month but I cannot believe our baby is nine months old! He's getting SO BIG! We had a little setback in the weight department at his 9 month appointment, but I attribute that to the fact that it was at the end of him being sick for a week and a half and not eating much. And I'm pretty sure he's made it all up plus some in the last two weeks! We've been eating all kinds of big boy food: yogurt, lentil and rice (which he LOVES), green beans and rice (which he also loves), veggies, etc. Actually, there's not much he won't eat. Carrots (which I find kind of odd since they're pretty sweet) and peas (which I totally get) but everything else is good as far as he's concerned.

Waiting patiently for dinner.

Things that he's mastered in the past month:

Completely escaping the swaddler and sleeping like this:

Looking completely adorable anytime anyone gets a camera out:

Getting one arm out of his pjs (I have no idea why but clearly he's very proud of himself):

Reading!

He's also started crawling. Not with "proper" crawling form. It's more of a semi-army crawl. He reaches out w/both hands and pulls while using either his toes or knees to scoot forward. Even though it's not traditional crawling, I can assure you he gets where he wants to go, and fast. I am so not ready for this stage. Other exciting things include getting two more teeth (for a total of four - you can kind of see the top ones here),

waving bye-bye (and occasionally saying "bye" at the same time), and just generally being a really happy kid. He's also definitely showing a preference for Mommy and Daddy over others now. We love our little man and can't imagine life without him (and can hardly remember life before him)! And now, I will wrap this up because the little monkey has awakened and is not so patiently banging his pacifier on his crib bars (a la prisoner with his cup on the prison bars) to be let out.

I'll leave you with a few pics from our 9 month photo shoot: