9 months!

These pictures are getting almost impossible to take.  He is all over the place and all of a sudden very interested in the bear.  Too funny!  The 8th month was a busy one around here!  We had a lot going on and he is growing so fast!

Heath stats: 

This is from our nine month appointment.  The Dr. said he is growing great, and he is long and skinny.  As my old friend Ms. Lee used to say "He didn't steal nothin".  She also informed me that he absolutely does not need to eat at night anymore and if I ever want to sleep through the night I need to stop nursing him to sleep.  So that is something we will be tackling in the coming month.  Mama's tired!  He didn't have to get any shots this time and I opted out of the flu shot because really I just wanted one appt where we did not have to go through that!

Sleep:  I sort of covered this earlier.  It's not good.  But I have hope for the future ;)  He is waking up 2, 3, sometimes 4 times a night and I go in and nurse him and he goes back to sleep.  Unfortunately the pattern is trending towards worse and not better so I know we need to change up our routine.

Clothes: 6-12/12mos stuff right now.  

Milestones: 

He watched his first Hokies game!

He also watched the first Skins game of the season and got initiated into the joy of being a Redskins fan . Sorry kid.

We have been exploring a lot of new toys and new areas of the house to play in.  We started taking advantage of some other things around town and have been going to story times at the library and Kindermusik class.  He loves it!

He is pulling up on everything!

This is pretty much what my house looks like on a daily basis.  His favorite game is "wreck the living room".

He started pulling off his hats so I am on the hunt for one that will stay on this winter.  I think this one might do the trick!

He went to his first birthday party!  Chanel came to visit and it was her 30th so we did a little celebration.  He was pretty interested in the cake and candles and I promise he was way more excited than he looks in this pic!

We went on our first airplane ride! This was on the way to the airport.

First time on the the airplane!  I had a hard time getting pics because I was by myself.  We had a great first flight, he was in a good mood and we had a whole row to ourselves because the flight was not full.

Hanging out with cousin Chase.  When they picked us up from the airport Chase said "You're going to love the Smith house!"

He had a lot of fun hanging out with his cousins and playing with all of Chase's toys!  I don't have any pics from the plane ride back because it was a little more stressful.  He hadn't taken an afternoon nap so he was very tired on the plane and then when we got home around 6:30 it took forever to get our bags and somehow the carseat didn't make it on the plane.  So we waited an hour in baggage claim and finally had to take home a loaner carseat.  Total nightmare but overall it was a good trip!

He is also pulling up independently (9/17) and drinking from a straw cup now.  Todd also taught him how to give high fives (9/6).  Here comes October--I really want to try the baby in a pumpkin photo ;) Stay tuned for that...