Brady, You are NINE months old!
What have you been up to?
* You are back to your happy self! Yay! You still LOVE to be held, but you will happily play on the floor with your toys. The first day you played on the floor with mommy in awhile, I cried. It was so much fun and I missed playing with you. Don't get me wrong, I love to hold you, but I also love to play.
* You have become an eating machine! You love to eat, just like your mommy and daddy! During the week, when you go to school, I wake you at 6:00 to nurse, then you take 2 8 ounce bottles at school at 9:30 and 1:00. I nurse you at 4:30 and again at 7:30 when you go to bed. You eat 3 tablespoons of banana oatmeal mixed with 1 1/2 ounces of apple or pear juice at 11:00.
* You also eat dinner at 6:00, which usually consists of 2 ounces of vegetables and 2 ounces of fruits. You've had sweet potatoes (favorite- I added a little cinnamon to this weekends batch I made), green peas, squash, bananas, apples, blueberries. I also gave you some jarred babyfood while we were traveling for the holidays. You liked it, but you definitely prefer the homemade stuff. You also eat puffs. The past few days you've enjoyed playing with them more than eating them.
* You are still wearing a size 3 diaper (Pamper's Swaddlers), although we did use some size 4's on our holiday trip. I'm sure you'll find this embarrasing when your older, I feel the need to document everything, but your bm's are now solid.
* You are wearing anywhere from 6-12 month size clothing. I've had so much fun shopping for you, since you look adorable in everything. You dress like your daddy, and I love it! Such an adorable little man!
* You still take 2 naps a day that last between 30 minutes - 2 hours. You usually take a nap after your 9:30 bottle and your 1:00 bottle. At school, you sleep in your swing. At home, mommy or daddy always hold you! You won't take naps in your crib. We've tried once or twice and you always wake up. We are so sweet and cuddly when you sleep, so we take advantage of the snuggle time!
* You still love Jordan. She is your favorite "toy". You watch her and laugh at her, and the second you see her, your face lights up. You also know her name, and when we ask you, "Where's Jordan?" you will look directly at her!
* You are officially on the move! I can't believe you are now mobile. What happened to my tiny baby?!?! On Friday (12/20), while your daddy was home from work for lunch, you pulled yourself from the living room into the dining room. You pull yourself around on your tummy. You have great upper body strength! You also moved yourself under the table and through the chairs to get to Jordan. Right before you got to her, she jumped up and moved. It's amazing to me how that morning you weren't crawling, but at 12:00 you were...growing up too fast!
* Some of your favorite things are my iphone (especially when I am talking to someone on speaker phone and the games-phony phone and an animal sounds and songs), your shapes turtle (you don't put the shapes in the correspoding holes, you prefer to bang all the pieces around), your new trike you received for Christmas, and your jumper.
* You took your first plane ride this month and received your first pair of airplane wings! We flew to Utah for Christmas. You only got fussy a few times, and on the way flight there you had 2 diaper explosions and we ended up having to wash and dry an outfit on the plane for you to wear, but other than that you are a great flyer!
* Speaking of flying, you did lots of traveling this month! We went to Utah and Mississippi.
* You celebrated your 1st Christmas! You had 3 Christmas celebrations and received lots of wonderful presents! You are so spoiled loved!
* You started pulling yourself up! It started in your crib one night, while your daddy was on a business trip to Paris...of course, and moved onto the bottom drawer on your dresser.
* On 12/22, while in Utah, your first tooth came in. We were at Target, where you had a major diaper blowout and mommy had to buy you a new outfit, and you were sitting in the cart when I saw a tiny white tooth on the bottom. It's not all the way in, but it's working on it. I was wondering why you were so fussy that morning, it's because you were working so hard on your tooth.
* You've started to enjoy having your picture taken, which is great, because I take pictures of you everyday. I'll take your picture, show it to you- which you smile at or laugh, and then smile or make a cute face for me again. I've gotten tons of super cute potos due to your new found love!
* You also clap and wave (you started waving at 7 months). Your claps don't make sound, but you do it a lot. You love for me to clap to you too!
* You've also started saying new words like "ba ba ba". I love to hear you talk and have conversations with you!
(You were clearly over our fun little photo shoot.)
Brady,
What a joy this past month has been! Getting to experience the holiday season with you made it the best one ever! You are showing more and more of your adorable personality, and I can't get enough of it! You've experienced many milestones this month, pulling up, getting a tooth, crawling, and I'm so thankful I've been able to see them happen for the first time. I will never be able to put into words what you do to my heart! You are amazing, and I am beyond thankful that I get to be your mommy! I love you sweet boy, way way more than you'll ever know!
