9 Months!

Seriously? I feel like I just posted 8 months information last week! This whole counting your age in months thing is for the birds...it just reminds me of how quickly my boys are growing up! In 3 more months Allen will be a whole year old and in just 4 months Drew will be 3! AHHH!

Anyway...Allen is doing great at 9 months. His checkup today went well. He looks great and is meeting all his developmental milestones. He weighs 22 lbs 4 oz (75%), is 28.5 inches long (70%) and his head is 46.5 cm (85%). We talked about going to the ENT and we will discuss it further next week when we go back for a recheck of his ears (which are still not clear though we are on day 9 of our antibiotic). He got one shot and only cried for a minute. The major issue today was that he fell off my bed this morning while I was drying my hair and banged his nose pretty hard. He looks like Rudolph...it's very sad. She checked him out and said he looked fine. No more high surfaces for Allen! (Sadly, Drew fell off a bed around this same point in life...possibly the same week of his life...mommy is a slow learner...)

Allen is trying really hard to crawl, but hasn't mastered it yet. He can get up on hands and knees (and even hands and toes!) and rocks back and forth or scoots backwards but hasn't mastered going forward yet. (Hmmm...guess that's how he went off the bed today...) He still can't sit himself up, though he is getting closer. (Yes, I realize in a previous post there were photos that made it look as though he could do that. Sorry...) **Update** As of this evening, Allen can sit up on his own. He was on the floor in Drew's room on his belly and the next thing I knew he was sitting up! I flipped him back over to make sure I hadn't lost my mind, but sure enough...up he popped! On Sunday he waved bye-bye to Nana and then yesterday waved at Daddy so I think we can safely say that is a new trick! He is starting to eat table foods and loves to have things put on his tray for him to eat himself. He tends to choke so we have to be careful, but he much prefers food to bottles now! He is starting to pull up on things and has managed to get up to the train table once. That could quickly become an issue! He loves to stand and if you let him hold your fingers he will stand for ages! Hugs and kisses are plentiful, if sometimes wet, and he will pull your hair out in clumps if you aren't careful. Maddie and Drew are still his favorite entertainment...he will do whatever he can to get to them (or what they have)! Allen is "talking" constantly - we're a little worried about how much he'll have to say when words really come out! "Mama" "dada" "baba" are his favorites and he will look around for people when you ask him where they are. Drew is having fun trying to teach him words and sounds...it's very sweet!