9 Months!

My baby can really get around, and he loves it! He inchwormed a lot this month. By the end he'd moved on to army crawl.

Here he's doing the inchworm and coming after the camera.


Towards the end of the month he decided it was time for more solids. It's also about when he got comfortable putting those little Cheerios in his mouth on his own. His favorite foods have been bananas, toast, cucumber, avocados, and watermelon. He's okay with carrots but not a fan of black beans, sweet potatoes, or butternut squash yet, he probably just needs me to prepare them more. Oh and he also loves parmesan cheese. (I discovered an amazing trick. I'd read a baby-led weaning tip that you cover slippery foods in crushed cereal. He didn't care for that at all. But parmesan cheese makes it not as slippery and he loves it!)

With a grilled cheese sandwich:


Things that aren't necessarily new this month (and are probably pretty typical of babies) are ...  He loves wheels and music. He's been turning the wheels on toy cars since forever (though perhaps not as enthralled with them as big brother was, I'm not sure if it's too soon to tell). He loves toys that make music and has always complained at the between songs parts of Baby Einstein. Though he loves my screen saver and it doesn't have music.  Also, everything goes into his mouth.  Seems like that'd go without saying but our first born rarely did that.  He is super into everything around him and loves the view and access he gets while being held.



(I recently backed up the last few years of photos & videos which coincidentally made them easy to access through the TV. I've been showing our toddler videos of him as a baby and it's made me realize how horrible I've been about getting videos of our new baby! I'll have to work on that. I'm really not much for video-taking, though of course I love having them.)


Pounding on the reflector :)