9 months old

Major milestone today! I can't believe you're already 9 months. Same time on the outside as the inside now.

• You are a cruiser. You always want to be standing and pull up and stand on anything you can. You've gotten stronger and can just hold on with one hand and stand now.
• You crawl just on hands and knees now. You used to drop to the army crawl for speed, but I haven't seen you do that for about a week now. So you crawl for reals to the couch or mantle or chair, and then stand and cruise!
• You've climbed up the stairs with mom behind you.
• You slept through the night!!! A grand total of 5 times now, so I think we're set!
• You got another tooth! The top left one came in, the one next to it is almost poking through.
• You weigh 20 lbs and are 29 inches. 60%ile for weight, 90th %ile for height.
• You still like to spit to talk, but prefer loud squealing now. There's a lot of da-da-das, and ba-ba-bas, and bom, and just happy squeals.
• You're harder to put to sleep. You cry and fight naps, but I just keep rocking you and you eventually fall asleep. Sometimes at night you seem asleep nursing, then just pop up talking again.
• Your favorite toys have spinning parts and you just sit and spin them with your finger.
• You like to push cars back and forth on the floor and get up and crawl while pushing a car for a bit.
• You're a great eater. Still eating pureed stuff, but also getting more table foods. You had rice, black beans, and salsa chicken that you liked. Other stuff that was new was just different flavors in purees like spinach and zuchinni. You also steal and bite my food and have had cookies and cinnamon rolls. You also love watermelon now.
• You spend all your time pulling up on me to stand, then grabbing both my hands and clapping them together. Seriously. We do this all day long. I sing pat-a-cake, but you don't care about the song, just the clapping. If Brady or Miles are close, you clap one of my hands to one of theirs.
• You've been riding in the stroller with dad in the morning for walks and liking them.
• You want to get into anything you're not supposed to. It's like you sense with the bathroom or boys' bedroom doors are open, because you bolt for them. You like to play with toilets, and any toy you can get in the boys room. It's your favorite, but I have to keep you out because of the Legos everywhere.
• You love playing with the toys downstairs, and that it's finally clean enough that you can play down there and crawl down the hall to find Dad in his office!
• You want to be held a lot and cry when I put you down.
• You constantly follow me and climb up my legs to stand, and it makes cooking really difficult!
• I love how much you love me and need me and that you can stop crying as soon as I pick you up. I love carrying you around on my hip because you're so happy and content and chill as you just watch what's going on and point and babble at everything.
• We love you lots and can't stop kissing those squishy cheeks!