9 Months!

Ryan is 9 months old!! Time flies! Soon enough we will be planning his first birthday party! I am so happy that I keep this blog because I often forget what he was doing at what month, so some day I will have to print it all out and show Ryan what a good baby he is!

He is such a good natured loving little boy. He is crawling around like a maniac and standing up on EVERYTHING! He loves to cruise around the family room by holding onto the coffee table on one side and the couch on the other. He can walk the entire length of the couch that way. Ryan is obsessed with the stairs....obsessed! He can crawl up our entire flight of stairs (with me RIGHT behind him of course) almost as fast as I can. I can't believe how quick he is! He must know that Penny usually sleeps on the futon upstairs in the office because he will crawl up every step and crawl right into the office and pull himself up on the futon and look for Penny. The dog drives me nuts, but it is pretty adorable!

He has a little toy that he can walk with, I thought he was probably too young for it, but he pulled himself up on it and started walking with it on Christmas day. Shocked the heck out of me...

He still says dada all the time, but now he is starting to say mum a lot. Not mama, but mum. Especially when he is tired or crabby, then its more of an exasperated muuuummm. I love it :)

My favorite thing he does is when Joe gets home from work. If he is playing on the floor when Joe walks in, he crawls as fast as he can with a huge grin on his face all the way to greet him at the door. After a long day of work and an hour commute, it makes Joe's day every time!

He has finally started waving a lot. The other day we were out to lunch and he sat in the highchair staring and waving at ladies at the other table for a good 3 minutes. Then when he got their attention and they looked at him, he stopped. Go figure. He will wave back at me about 50% of the time, but he usually seems to just do it to other people to get their attention. Or he will cough, he thinks thats like saying" Hey, look at me, I'm over here!" He can clap too, but it is pretty rare. When he does, he usually only moves one hand to hit the other, so I dont know if it's quite a "clap" but Joe thinks it qualifies :)

He enjoys giving kisses, and by kisses, I mean opening his mouth and sucking on my face...it ends in a slobbery mess, but he is so sweet I can't help but let him drool all over me!

Still only 2 teeth, thats enough for him to be able to eat whatever I give him. I give him tiny pieces of bread a lot, and he chews on them like its a steak. Then opens his mouth for more. He loves puffs too. If I really need to get something done, I'll put him in his high chair with a bunch of puffs on the tray and put on channel 11. That works for about 20 minutes so I can get things done around the house, it's amazing!

At his 9 month Dr. appt. he weighed 15 lbs and 13ozs and was about 28 1/2 inches tall. He is only in the 1.5 percentile for weight, so we bring him in for a weight check when he is 10 months old. At the 9 month check up, he was given the okay to eat anything except for seafood, nuts and honey, so we are letting him try everything. Turns out, the baby who I thought didn't really like to eat, just doesn't want his bottles anymore. He thinks he is a big boy now! So put pot roast, bread, spaghetti, nilla wafers, any of those things in front of them and he will eat it all up! He loved pot roast so much that he literally put his face down to the table to eat it instead of picking it up with his little fingers, I guess he figured that would be faster? Who knows, but I think he will start puttin on a few lbs now :)

He is so much different than the teeny baby he was when he was born, but soooo much more fun now! Can't wait to see what the next month holds.