Britt at 9 Months

Britt has his 9 month check up last week, and he's doing great:

Height - 27 1/4 in - bottom 25th percentile
Weight - 19 lbs, 8 oz - 25th to 50th percentile

He walked with a walker at 8 months, which seems to be pretty early. He can stand on his own, but the confidence isn't there yet to do so for longer than a few seconds. All of his motor and verbal skills are developing, and he's got quite a personality. He's wearing 9 month clothing and is thoroughly enjoying all of his new Christmas toys.

He's also been doing much better as far as his stomach issues were going, no throwing up since the week after Thanksgiving....yay for that!

We're moving through baby food, of which he has gotten really picky, so I'm starting to give him yogurt (jury's still out on that one) and finger foods for dinner. He loves wheat bagels, american cheese, avocado, and water in his sippy cup. We're still on cereal for breakfast and usually fruit and baby puffs for lunch. All meals are quite interesting, I think he knows the bigger mess he makes, the more likely he is going to get a bath, which is his favorite thing to do. He would take three baths a day if he could! Also, I'm still nursing him a few times a day and (ugh!) at least once, usually twice a night. We just got through a really good week, though. He slept all night one night and then had a three night stretch of only being up once.

The house has been baby-proofed, and we've only had a few tumbles and boo-boos and one scare when he, out of nowhere, decided that he could climb the steps (thank goodness Justin was standing right there). Keeping up with a very active nine month old and trying to work from home is definitely one the the most challenging things I've ever attempted. Luckily, Justin's travel schedule has been minimal lately, so we have lots of family time. We try to take walks almost every day (one of the perks of living in Florida in January) and get some play time in after dinner.

Here's a video (especially for Aunt Courtney and Uncle Keith) of his latest favorite pastime - rearranging the pantry. I quickly learned to move the questionable stuff up a shelf when I found him trying to eat Tostitos the other night :-)