9 months old

Height:

Weight: 20 lbs

Your sleeping patterns are: you have your own bedtime routine and you know it :)  you like to go to bed around 8:30 with a 7 oz bottle. Mommy has to feed you the bottle because for some strange reason you won't take the bottle from Daddy :(  You take the bottle and go right to sleep in your crib with your paci and I lay your lovey next to you. I'm not so sure that you will be as attached to your lovey as your brother is to his. You usually wake up around 6:30 or 7 and take a bottle and fall back to sleep for another hour or so. During the day you will take a nap around 10am and then again around 2 or 3pm (the times usually change on a daily basis). Most times Mommy has to let you "cry it out" because you don't want to go right to sleep. Mommy goes back in to check on you every 5-8 minutes to make sure you are ok. Typically you will go to sleep after having your "fits". You cry like you are mad at the world and want to yell and tell everyone off. I know it's not a cry like you are hurt.

Your feeding schedule is: 7:00- 7oz bottle; 8:30ish- you eat fruit and sometimes oatmeal while R and I eat our breakfast; 10:30ish- 6oz bottle; 2ish- 6 or 7 oz bottle; 5ish veggie and puffs and then a 6 oz bottle; between 8 and 9 you take a 7oz bottle and go to bed.  On Mother's Day you started eating mashed potatoes and some small pieces of cooked carrots, you really liked them!

Your likes & dislikes are: likes: TO CRAWL!!!! you go EVERYWHERE and you are so proud of yourself (and so are Mom & Dad). Shortly after you started crawling you began pulling up on couches, chairs, toys, anything tall enough for you to grab a hold of and pull up on, really. I'm sure you will be walking VERY soon! You like to eat small pieces of our meals: bread, carrots, bananas. dislikes:for Daddy to put you to bed, for Mommy to walk away from you when other people you don't know are holding you, to go down for a nap by yourself, when we take something from you that you are playing with that could hurt you (you scream and get soooo mad!).

Your favorite toys are: lots of R's toys! you always love to crawl into his room and go straight for his toys to chew on. your favorite one is a blue and green drum stick to his toy drum. other than that I can't really think of a favorite toy of yours from this past month of life. You are just so adventurous now that you want to see what everything looks, feels and tastes like :)

By the end of 9 months old you are learning to: pull up on things and also stand by yourself (for a few seconds). You are learning to eat new foods and you love it! Drink more often from a sippy cup, water mainly. Say "mamamama" and "bababababa"...you babble more and more everyday!