Today is little stinker's 9 month birthday! How on earth is he already that old!?! He is (again) doing so many new things even since last week. I've heard that they start changing even more rapidly after the 8 month mark and that is SO true! He is learning like crazy and getting so many new things figured out. This week his big accomplishment was learning how to pull himself into a standing position. He first did it in his crib. I FINALLY got the mattress lowered earlier this week and literally during his next nap he pulled up into a standing position. I don't know if it was just a coincidence or if that somehow that made it easier for him to do it. But, he did it! The next thing I knew he was pulling up on everything in sight. The coffee table, the TV stand, the walker, his jumper, the shelves, me, Zoe, Max...just kidding. Like Max would let Noah get within 5 feet on him. Everything Noah gets close to Max, he is outta there! Too many pulls of the hair!
Pulling up in his crib for the first time
He is also LOVING feeding himself by picking up little puffs and yogurt melts. He's been doing this for awhile, but now he really likes it if I put them in a cup or bowl and he can reach in a get them out himself. He searches everything that resembles a cup for little treats. He loves cups! It's really funny when I'm drinking some water he just gets so excited and starts bouncing and reaching for it. Then he sticks his hand in and tries to grab the water. He just tries and tries but can't quite do it. Sometimes he thinks he finally has it and puts his fingers in his mouth to eat it but nothing is there. He just looks at his hand like, "where did it go?" Then goes back to trying to pick it up. Cracks me up!
He is also now able to totally use his bottle/sippy all by himself which is great when we are in the car and he gets cranky. I just hand a bottle over the back and he's happy. He's also funny with this because he now gets that he has to tip the bottle up to get the good stuff out so everything that goes in his mouth gets tipped. He did it with a contact solution bottle this morning (it was shut) and looked at me like, "this isn't working!"
He also had his 9 month check up today. I was expecting it to be really bad with tons of shots but no shots this time! Yea! He did great! He weighs 19.5 lbs and is 29 inches long. He gained over 2 lbs since 6 months and grew an impressive 3 inches. I think he has been putting all of his energy into getting longer instead of chubbier. Definitely going to be a tall kid, but we knew that was coming! He also now has a total of 6 teeth and received his first real toothbrush at the doctor today. He loves it and it is SO much easier to use that the gum cleaner things.
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