This little boy has turned all goofy lately. He thinks he is hilarious and always does the goofiest things. As my dad says, "that kid is ALL boy". In the past week he decided he was over army crawling and went straight to hands and knees crawling; he didn't even practice! One day I was cooking dinner and I looked over and he was just crawling away like a normal 9 month old would. Every once in a while he will still do his speedy army crawl, but I would say overall he has outgrown that form of transportation.
He pulls himself up onto anything and everything and loves to walk along furniture and toys. His other favorite activity is crawling up the stairs- he has gotten pretty fast getting up the stairs but doesn't know how to get down. If we aren't watching him he will just dive down the stairs. Luckily the near death experience has only happened twice. (Downside of have two sets of stairs and not wanting to get three baby gates :)
He just barely (as in two days ago) dropped down to two liquid feedings a day: one when he wakes up in the morning at 7 and then right before he goes to bed around 7:30. He seemed much more interested in having a snack in the afternoon rather than nursing, so we decided just to drop it and he hasn't looked back. He eats breakfast, lunch, dinner and then an afternoon snack. Needlesstosay, he is a fan of eating. Eggs are still his favorite breakfast, alongside my green smoothie. Last week he discovered spitting out food, which is awesome...not. He is still a great eater, but I found that if I ever put something in his mouth he will spit it right out. I just have to stick everything on his plate; first he will eat the thing he likes most, and then he will get around to eating the other things (ex: he will always eat bread before he decides that asparagus is good too. Or he will eat his blueberries before he eats oatmeal.)
He says "mama" and "dada", but not on demand. When he talks to himself the syllables he says are "ding, ding ding" and "bum bum bum" and "na na na". He also loves grunting and squealing from excitement. He could give birds a run for their money. He knows the sign language for "more" and "food". Signing "food" is his favorite pastime. He loves being able to communicate his hunger to me and would sign for food all day long if I kept feeding him. I keep trying to teach him "thank you", but whenever I do it he thinks I am saying "food" so he gets really excited. It's a hopeless cause.
His dad is his favorite person in America and he always cries when we leave the medical school after having lunch. His ears always perk up when he hears footsteps coming up the stairs to our door and squeals and smiles from ear to ear when Robert walks in. His favorite time of day is when his dad gives him a nighttime bottle and puts him to sleep. He is definitely and daddy's boy and it's darling.
We love this growing boy even more than last month!!
