9 months old

I can't believe Jax is 9 months old today.  I feel like I missed some of the first months with him because I was in such a haze.  But he is just getting more and more fun everyday.  He is wearing size 9m and 12m clothing.  He is eating a lot of different foods now.  He will eat anything we give him except for mashed potatoes.  Tony doesn't like them either.  He seems to be allergic to spinach (he got 3 hashes on his face).  He also had a reaction to cinnamon and got a rasho n his tummy.  His favorite thing to do now is be up on his daddy's shoulders.  He is a big flirt.  He can go all directions in his walker now and he likes to pet the animals much to their dismay.  We are learning to pet and not pull.

9 month stats:

• 20.9 lbs ...........average weight
• 28 3/4 inches tall .............above average height
• 18 1/4 head .............above average circumference                                                                         (I guess he's gonna be smart with a big ole head)

Lots has happened this month:

• May 22, he got dedicated at church
• Memorial Day weekend  he went to the beach for the first time and played in the ocean.
• he eats lots of people food off of our plates now
• he has learned to sit up from a crawl position
• he rocks back and forth on his hands and knees
• he is starting to pull up on the furniture
• he is having major separation anxiety
• we are finally on some sort of schedule, bedtime is around 8:30-9pm most nights
• he sleeps through the night occassionally
• we stopped breastfeeding this month
• he uses the sippy cup pretty well and he likes to drink out of big people cups
• he is starting to express what he wants by pointing or gesturing to it

What we are looking forward to this month (hopefully):

• teeth
• crawling
• standing on his own
• saying mama and dada