9 months and baseball!

9 month visit stats: 28inches long (43%) and 18,9lbs (20%). Its actually really sad to know my chunkster is in the 20% for weight..... no wonder childhood obesity is so high!

Wow, what a trip the 8 month has been. It seems like he learned something new every day.

1) Said his first word "mama". At first it was just babble but he is referring to me sometimes. We're working hard on dada but no real "d" sounds yet.

2) He learned to sit AND pull himself up to a standing position.

3) One day short of 9 months and he learned to crawl. He was getting around pretty well but ended up crawling backwards when he was trying to go forwards. This is really a nice treat (I only say because he's not fast yet) but he can get to what he wants and is so content to play for a while.

Of course every day is a new random trick he comes up with, always finds a way to ammuse us! He still has no teeth but we were told at the Dr's that we can really introduce just about any food to him so we'll start on that. Since we got back from our trip I'm going to start weening him too. He's only nursing in the morning now and I'm just pumping 2 times a day so we're dipping into the gallons of frozen milk in the freezer. It seems to be working ok so far. We've also skipped a feeding and just do one late afternoon (instead of one mid afternoon and evening) so our main goal now is to take only one longer afternoon nap (he has been taking one just after lunch and another before dinner). He did it on Thursday but then Friday was another story. Since he's able to move around so well getting him settled has been a whole new struggle we're dealing with, even at night which we've never had an issue with. So we work through it as we go...

For mom-mom's birthday we went to see a minor league baseball game Friday night. Of course our minor league team happens to be with the Nationals but they were playing the Reading Phillies so we couldn't root for the home team this time. He was soo good, made it till about the 7th inning before he passed out!