9 Months!

I don’t know what happened to the last month. I feel like I just did the 8 month post yesterday! But, here we are…9 months old.  Ben is just a huggable, squeezable, giggly little guy. His personality is coming through more and more and he is going to be a charmer! He loooooves being around people, especially other kids, and smiles at just about everyone. He’s super curious and is constantly looking around and checking things out when we are out and about. He’s just a happy baby and I feel so lucky to be his momma.  Ben's schedule really hasn’t changed since last month – still 2 naps a day at 10:00 and 2:00. He’s such a good sleeper now. We just put him down in his crib and, after playing for a few minutes, he’ll just roll over and go to sleep. At night, we lay him in his crib around 6:45 and he sleeps all night until we go get him around 6:15 in the morning.   He’s still eating 3 meals a day – usually fruit and oatmeal for breakfast, fruit and vegetable for lunch and then a vegetable/meat/fruit for dinner.   I’m excited to start trying new foods with him but, so far, he hasn’t done that great with non-baby food.   Ben has 2 teeth, 1 on the bottom and 1 on top.  Ben is just starting to crawl. He’s not consistent with it yet but he is trying so hard and that seems to be all he wants to do these days is try to crawl.  He has moved his hand and arm but can't quite get the other hand and foot coordinated.  I know it will be just a matter of time before he is officially on the move.  He is already all over the place and gets where he needs to go via rolling or creeping across the floor- I call it the army crawl!  Ben is constantly on the move and changing his diaper these days is quite the adventure!  He is learning all sorts of new tricks like waving bye bye and patty cake is definitely on the horizon!  His belly laughs are just the best and Matt can always get him going by doing something silly.  I just love this sqeezable, huggable, giggly little baby that lights up my day, everyday!