Lawson, you are NINE months old!
Here is what you are up to:
- You are 19.1 pounds (27th percentile) and 28.5 inches long (60th percentile). Your little head is17.25 inches around, which is the 13th percentile.
- You wear size 9-12 months or 12 months clothes in anything that's one piece (onesies, rompers, sleepers). If it's pants and a shirt, you can still wear smaller sizes.
- You still fit in a size 3 disposable diaper, but you don't wear them often. We love cloth diapers. :)
- You have FIVE teeth, and a sixth on it's way in. We hate teething around here.
- You are spider crawling everywhere, pulling up on anything and everything, and cruising EVERYWHERE! You hardly ever sit still. You took a couple unassisted steps last week, but I think it was a fluke and you probably don't even know you did it. You were trying to get from your toy to the chair and got lucky, ha!
- You are a great eater! You had to take a steroid for your allergic reaction, and that made you eat SO much, but now your eating is back to normal. You eat mostly table food with some purees mixed in, and you eat 3 meals a day.
- Since starting cloth diapering, you are an AWESOME sleeper. You go to sleep anywhere between 6:30 and 8 depending on your mood, and you don't wake up until 7 or later. Momma is loving your new summer schedule. :) You don't have any wake ups anymore either, when you used to have one or two for the paci. You put them in during your sleep and don't wake up for it anymore.
- You say mama, dada, and repeat lots of things we say without meaning it. You will sometimes say night-night and bite. We are working on up and down.
- You LOVE to give kisses, and you're starting to like snuggling again too when you're settled down enough. It's so sweet.
- You have your own little personality, and you are so fun! I call you a little steamboat because as soon as you wake up you are off and running with no stopping you! You are a little ball of energy.
- You like to tell us when you don't like something now. You have learned the word "no" quickly, and you listen when we tell you no (for now, ha!), but you scream at us to let us know you don't like it. After talking with some other moms with babies the same age, I have concluded that it's normal, thank goodness. Apparently at 9 months you think you are a grown up, and you don't like hearing otherwise, ha!
- You are generally so happy except for an occasional fit. When you are grumpy, we know it's time for a nap!
- Speaking of naps, Momma is afraid you are transitioning to only one day time nap. YIKES! If you weren't sleeping so well at night, I would be more concerned. I'm not ready for it though, ha!
You were not happy that Momma and Daddy wanted you to sit still for a picture. :)
Always finding something to get into. :)
"Helping" with laundry
You were supposed to be napping...instead you were playing with your humidifier. Busy bee.
Before and after of your food tray during the time you were taking the steroid. You ate EVERYTHING in sight, haha! It was pretty funny to watch.
Playing with your kitchen. You like to play with your big kid toys now. :)
Totally random, but this is a teething chart I got from a friend. It's just interesting to me. Every baby is different, so obviously it's all relative, but I just think it's so funny that you have gotten each tooth so far at the very beginning of the monthly window. Your top lateral incisors came in/are coming in now, and you just turned 9 months. Hopefully this is an indicator of when to expect teeth to come in for the future, and hopefully it means we will be done with teething early. :)
Playing with Daddy's shoes...
Showing off your teeth!
Happy boy
This is how you go to sleep. With at least 3 pacis. You find them in your sleep and put them in so that you don't cry. Sometimes they get lost or fall out of your crib, so we put extra in there just in case. :)
Teething on the couch. With a bump on your head. You are ALL boy and bump into everything. We try to baby proof everything, but you are good at finding things to run into, ha!
Showing us that you were unhappy. I think you had tried to bite my toes here and I told you "no." You don't like to be told no. hahaha!
Lawson, you are such a cute, sweet, loveable little man, and we can't believe how big you are getting! You are practically a big boy now! We can't wait to see what you will learn next.
