Today is my last "legal" day to post the 9 month report so I better get cracking! Yes, my little man has now officially been in this world for as long as he was in utero! Amazing! He has progressed so much this month too. His big acheivement this month was pulling to stand. He is now on his feet most of the time when he is playing. He pulls up to stand on anything he can get his hands on, and can now even free stand for a few seconds. He stands easily with just one arm so I'm sure his first steps will be before his 1st birthday! He just flies when crawling now too, although I HATE him crawling on our hard tile floor. I'm so afriad of him hurting himself.
So in a nutshell, the big news this month is his standing. Some other big firsts---WAVING! I love this! When you wave to him he will wave back--either by folding his hand or by waving his whole arm! It is just absolutely adorable and melts my heart! He has become such a social little man lately. He smiles at everyone at the kids' school and loves to make his little scrunched grimace face at people as well. A little ham!
Evan has 8 teeth now and I THINK we are done with teeth for awhile. He sure had a hard time with those teeth. I'm hoping the molars are easier. He had 7 teeth for SO long and now finally got his 8th this month. And on the weight front, I weighed him tonight and he is 11,200 grams (24 pounds something). ONE BIG GUY!
Other firsts...NEW FOODS. Evan has learned to self feed and practically wants to feed himself all of the time. He loves bread, bananas, salmon, green beans, saltine crackers etc. This month he took a big leap into solid foods and will FINALLY eat 1/2a jar of baby food. He mostly wants to feed himself bits of food and really doesn't show a big interest in the spoon, but this month he will FINALLY tolerate it. He does love yogurt and fruit and opens willingly for that! I gave him his first juice a few days ago and he LOVED it. I used a regular adult cup. I'm not a big juice pusher, but he certainly loved it so I won't hold it back from him. He does drink water from a sippy cup also. He finally figured that out too this month. He won't drink more than an ounce at a time but at least he has learned how to work the sippy cup!
Breastfeeding is still going well, although I'm afraid he is drinking MOST of his milk at night. This happened with the other kids at this age as well. It was hard for them to slow down during the day so they caught up on mother's milk at night. It makes it really difficult for me because he is still waking 2-3 times a night, but I know that this will soon pass! I'm trying to savor every moment of his littleness.
Naps...are mostly are on the go. I hate this but it is a reality. He usually falls asleep in the car when we take the kids to or from school, so he ends up taking naps in his baby seat. I just carry his seat into the bedroom and he continues napping, but I don't like him learning to nap this way. I'm not fighting it right now though since I just can't seem to keep him awake in the car and I can use the break from monitoring him. I need time to get the big kids lunch or clean up so I just go with the flow and let him catnap. Hopefully when he turns 1 he will just need one long nap that can be scheduled.
I guess that it now for the basic update. I hope to post some more in the coming days. We had Toomas sister visit from Sweden and I got some great shots of the kids that I will share soon!
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