9 months old

We are back home in New Orleans. It is nice to be back in our own space even though I didn’t want to leave the comfort of Florida. Our plane was delayed two hours coming home but Chance was a little trouper and bounced up and down on my lap and talked to everyone on the plane even though it was past his bedtime by the time we got home. He has grown so much. Outfits that fit him perfect when we left for Florida are now hard to button. He is solidly in 12 month clothes and moving into 18 months. He is crawling all over, I have to do more baby proofing now that we are back at the house. He is pulling up on everything and cruising along the couch and other things. He is also very brave, he lets go and only holds on with one hand when he stands and a couple times he has let go with both hands and stood there for a second before plopping down on his bum.
He is 9 months old today. He says mama when he is upset and dada when he is happy we are trying to connect the two sounds to me and Scott. He definitely knows ‘No’ and his name. We are also trying to teach him to wave he waves his hand but has only done it at the right time once so we are still working on it but you can see him thinking about it, He knows we are trying to tell him something and he is trying hard to figure out what it is, he will have it before long.

I am sure I have mentioned how much he likes Sesame Street but this long only grows. He loves Elmo. It comes on at 7am and 10am here so we get to watch it if Chance gets up early or if he sleeps in and he will watch the first five minutes or so non stop then he will play and crawl around but any time Elmo comes on he will drop whatever he is doing and watch. We don’t watch much TV and when we do it is 9 times out of 10 PBS. He seems to love puppets because he also likes Between the Lions.

He still favors the color red. If you lay clothes or toys out in front of him he will pick the red one. He definitely likes red. He does not like wearing his bib I make him wear one most of the time anyway though. He eats cheerios and lots of other table foods even though he still has no teeth. He doesn’t like peas for sure and one of the baby food dinner things he wouldn’t even touch but everything else he likes a lot.

He got his first haircut the other day it was short and sweet my Mom just cut the long hairs that were getting in his eyes while I fed him to distract him. We kept the cuttings and I will put them in his baby book. The rest of his hair doesn’t need to be cut yet.

I will be posting a lot more now that we are home with a good internet connection.

He does all of the nine month milestones already.

By the end of month nine a baby typically:
Reaches for toys
Drops objects and then looks for them
Becomes interested in grabbing the spoon during feedings
Goes from tummy to sitting by self
Picks up tiny objects
Begins to identify self in a mirror's reflection

These pictures are from when we were in florida. In the second one he is chewing on his little finger which he does a lot everyone says he must be teething because of it but I don't think so. I call it his "One Million Dollars" face. He also sticks his tongue out a lt these days which he thinks is funny. The last two are from the last day we were there and Chance wanted to put his feet in the pool (I think) and once he did he jsut sat down. He really likes the water and loved just sitting on that top step in the pool.