9 months



What a Stud!!





Ready for church in my suit!



Our silly monkey is 9 months old!  I know I'm getting this post up a little late but hey better late than never!  Our little guy started crawling 2 days after Christmas.  He likes to keep one leg straight and crawl with the other leg it's like he has a peg leg, thus we sometimes call him our little peg leg (with love of course! haha)  He is 18 lbs and 28 1/4 inches.  He is tall and thin the doctor said. He has 4 teeth.  The bottom 2 middle and the top 2 no not the middle ones, but the ones next to his middle.  Wierd huh?



Mama....or dada??? Both please!!





He can say both "mama" and "dada" Nathan and I fight over who he really is recognizing first.  Secretely we each are always trying to get him to say ours first...or not so secretly haha.  His favorite thing to babble is "babababababa"  and recently he likes to copy daddy when he quotes "Whaaaaaat??"  from Dispicable Me.  It's hilarious!  He has mastered his sippy and gets rather excited when we give it to him, and his favorite thing to eat are these funny "lil crunchies, veggie dips" They are kind of like puff cheetos for babies.  He cries when he eats them all (not sure I'm liking his new little fits) and laughs when we give him more.  They are sure to cheer him up any time!



Tee hee Mischievious





Such a sad face!



He prefers to stand or walk (with help) than to crawl or just be sitting.  He is always on the go and getting into everything.  Thankfully he is starting to listen when we tell him "no" to touching things he can't play with and he will take his hand away and move on.  He gives the BEST squeezes!!  Especially if you turn the vacuum on...he is interested in it, so he doesn't cry (if you hold him) and he watches it, but boy he has the death grip on mommy or daddy while its on.  Both arms wrapped tightly around our necks.  This is how he gives us squuezes too, and slobbery kisses all over.   We can never get enough of his loves.   His favorite things do play and do...well the dinosaur ball pit of course! His tool bench, which he is getting really good with and any type of container you can put things in.  He loves to "wrestle" us.  It's great fun for him if we lay on the floor or curl up in a ball on the floor, he will come crawling over and stand up on you and "hit" "bite" us all over.  (more love taps, and teething on us),  We love our little monster and are thinking of his 1st birthday which is almost here! 



Our beaufitul family!