Month 9

• We have been thinking you're teething for the last month -- sleepless nights, drool, chomping on everything in sight ... but still no teeth!
• You love playing 'timber' with daddy on the couch -- he counts to three and you go from sitting up with him to crashing on the couch -- you are so smart that you can anticipate the event!
• You started to crawl backwards around the middle of the month, and get yourself stuck in some pretty funny positions .. your favorites are under the stools and under the coffee table
• You now have consonants -- you can babble and say lala, dadada, mamama. You still have no idea what you're saying, but its a start!
• You started eating little chunks of cheese, and again, true to your dads form, you love it
• You can now get yourself onto your bum when you're laying on the floor
• We are finding you in many interesting positions in your crib when you fall asleep -- now that you can roll over and get on your hands and knees - we've found you with your little feet sticking out of the crib rails, on your side, tummy, pretty much every which way. We get a good laugh checking on you every night before we go to bed
• You are taking up an ever increasing portion of our hearts, and we feel so blessed to have been given the privilege of raising you
• We decided it was time that the little wings over your ears be taken off and thus, you had your very first hair cut! Your mom may have taken a bit too much off of one side...learning how to cut hair on a squirmy babe is not the easiest way to learn!