9 month check-in

Adam went to the doctor this week and was just shy of 23lbs.

He's crawling much quicker now and pulls himself up to his knees on the couch and the side of his crib.

He'll crawl to your legs and head butt you to pick him up. Sometimes he'll put his arms up to be picked up, but not all the time.

Top tooth is cutting through -- drooling like a faucet.

Working on "walking" he'll hold your fingers and swing his legs but if he wants to get anywhere he'll plop down and crawl.

All good...

Pics

Movin

Whew... Glad to be back to work! Adam is all over the place crawling on, in, and around anything in his path. He is up on his knees now too, so he can reach magazines, etc on the coffee table and books/pictures on the 2nd shelf of most of the bookcases in the house. "Babyproofing" we did last week is already obsolete. I got the gate up at the top of the stairs and all the outlets plugged this weekend, but still need to move things up.

Adam's new find this weekend was a door stop (one of the spring ones), so that provided lots of entertainment throughout the weekend "BOOOOOIIIIINNNNNNGGGGG" followed by a huge smile - until he pulled it off the wall yesterday.

New Vocab

Now that Adam can move Jenny and I have picked up a new vocabulary for the variety of situations the young lad has discovered:

“No”
“No, no”
“Adam, nooooo”
“Adam Matthew, no”
“No, no Adam”

In the past couple of days he’s found cords, wall outlets, photo albums, the TV stand, rugs, etc as new targets.

Monkeys can be trained...

Once you get him in a routine, don't deviate from it!!! We are learning that the hard way this week. We had done pretty well with letting him cry it out and put himself to sleep, until he got sick and we were dealing with his ears. I'd let him sleep on me a bit after a bottle and then go put him down asleep or we'd rock him to sleep and then go put him down.

For whatever reason, for as many nights as we can remember the past couple of weeks, he wakes up right around 10pm and cries - a lot. He started flopping in his crib too so we'd hear a thud over the monitor and one of us would go running making sure all was ok.

He's figured us out now and last night I stood with the door cracked a bit and watched the 10pm "new routine" play itself out. Cry, roll around, look towards door, cry louder, sit up, look towards door, cry/scream, flop backwards, and look towards door... I assume this is where he repeats the routine until we come in.

Busy weekend

Lots going on...

First biter biscuit:

Hung out with Momma:

We got some pumpkins:

Did some crawling:

Wiped out on daddy:

Crawling

Of course, the first time Adam crawls forward (been "crawling" backwards for about a week), he does it at daycare. We put him down last night and he crawled backwards for us and would put his arms out in front of him but no forward movement. We need to get the video camera ready to go!

He was sitting on the floor rambling big time last night, I don't think either of us can claim "ma ma" or "da da" but he went on and on -- seemed like he was mad at his toys, big scowl on his face as he'd throw them around.

Other happenings:
"Pppppttttthhhhh" is back at eating time -- awesome. He isn't spitting yogurt, but pretty much any other food has been sprayed.

He saw his shadow for the first time the other day too. Beat the snot out of him against the wall. Last night he left a bunch of slobber on the wall, we assume he was trying to give the shadow a smooch.