9 month.

Our boy is 9 months today (and a happy birthday to mom as well). He has been such a busy little person this past month. His appetite is growing as is his belly. He still likes carrots, sweet potatoes, broccoli-carrot mix, most fruits, and he gobbles up oatmeal cereal like crazy most mornings. He snacks on pieces of bread or little crackers and is getting pretty good at the ole hand-eye coodination but sometimes I find things down his shirt or hidden in his fist. He's getting all these little rolls that are perfect for kisses. He drools a lot.

He's got a really consistent schedule at the moment- 2 naps and sleeps pretty much 12 hours at night with one morning feed. At night, we simply take him up to his room, we turn off the light and he turns over and goes to sleep. Before we go to sleep, we usually check on him and he's been sleeping with his face down (drooling) up on his knees. Funny. Sometimes, when he wakes up he'll just hang out and babble for ages. He says "ma ma ma" a lot and seems to relate it to food (which is also me). The last few days he'll start blowing raspberries and not stop (see video). We wonder if its because we are constantly blowing raspberries on his cheeks and tummy. He's still not crawling up on his hands and knees but is very quick to get to something he wants in his army style crawl/drag. It's fun watching him remember where things are that he wants (our shoes in our closets, granted our closets have no doors). He still seems to enjoy his bath time time splash-a-thon. He is turning from his back to all fours now and doing a crawl/swim.

He seems to be content when he's walking around in the backpack so we cook with him in there, do chores, and take lots of walks. He likes being in the buggy too but I think he likes the views of the backpack and he likes bouncing in the backpack which makes for a fun walk. He's quite a little flirt and will give out smiles to most anyone. He is definitely aware of me and Mike and when we leave him but he's still not fully into stranger danger and likes to interact with new people. You know stick his fingers in their mouth and check out their eyelashes. So I will take off my glasses because those are obviously fun but then he'll take his tiny pinching fingers and go for my eyelashes.

We have his next check up in a couple weeks so we'll see how much he weighs. I have no idea about that but his hair is growing in--he has a lot that grows right down the middle of his head--he could have a sweet natural mohawk. I actually think is a real mix of both of us but certainly has my giant forehead! Mike is the sweetest and most attentive dad. He has the most adoring smiles when Mike walks in the room. All is right in the world.

Trick of the week from Chris Cammock on Vimeo.

He is really into blowing raspberries over and over and over.