Nine months seems like such a legit child age! I can't believe Jakey is 9 months old! He is ever more fun each day and we love him so. (But that hair - it is something else! Jake had his first haircut last month and hated every second of it.)
At nine months, Jacob:
~ weighs 18.5 lbs. He's tiny! He's dropped to the 30th percentile in weight and is in only the 4th percentile for height! He is still wearing size 3-6 month clothing.
~ sleeps through the night 7 am to 7 pm, and takes a morning nap and an afternoon nap
~ crawls ever so quickly . . . especially when he's crawling into a bathroom and he knows you're coming after him! No more throwing things in the toilet or knocking over the trash can!
~ still puts everything in his mouth! And puts his mouth on everything! Think: him seeing his reflection in the mirror - try to eat it; him sitting in a shopping cart - try to eat it. Even going to the park is no fun because I spend the whole time taking leaves and twigs and rocks out of his mouth! This is exposure therapy for my germ phobias at its finest! It's just his way of exploring the world.
~ walks pretty darn well (and so cutely) with his little walker he got for Christmas.
~ loves to look at books and will crawl right into my lap whenever we read Red Truck.
~ definitely knows what we mean when we say "book" and "Mickey Mouse." He'll crawl right to them. He's basically a child genius.
~ loves to play with nesting cups, blocks, cars, and books. He also loves to put his hands on something (a box, a book, my wallet, etc.) and push it around - it slides and he crawls. Two other favorite toys are a shoe box and a Christmas gift box - what fun to push around the kitchen floor! We're working on teaching him to play chase.
~ enjoys FaceTiming with Aunt Emily, Grandma Molly, and Nana & Grandpa Myers. Especially when they pay attention to him (and not Ben or me).
~ makes lots of noise: yells and "aadaa!" and the sweetest Jakey laughs.
~ still loves bath time, but now it is filled with crawling and standing and slipping in the bath tub, trying to eat the water spigot or the drain, and throwing toys out of the tub.
~ loves to nurse. He'll drink out of a sippy with a straw pretty well if it's filled with breastmilk (enough that I left him here in CA with Daddy while I went to Utah for less than 48 hours!), so-so if it's filled with water. He likes yogurt and berries, but is not really a champ at eating food yet. We're working on it!
~ has fun playing with his other baby friends at church each Sunday. And we have fun watching that chaos!
~ waves on command (he definitely knows that word, too) and will wave to most everyone we see when we're out. He has many, many, many admirers when he sits the shopping cart at the grocery store or Costco. It takes us twice as long to shop because everyone wants to stop and chat/be waved at.
Jacob is happy, active, and sweet. He loves us and we love him! We couldn't have been blessed with a sweeter child.
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