Jace 9 months!

Our little man is getting too big and too fast! (Pictures are 1 week before 9 months).

JACE AT 9 MONTHS:

*20 lbs and 29 inches

*has 3 teeth- two on bottom and one on top (the other is coming)

*eats anything we give him (unless it feels kinda slimy haha) but is still a little impatient when it comes to feeding him.

*goes to bed at 7:30, wakes up at 6:30.

*Is going through a phase of not wanting to take long enough naps. 

*quit doing the army/worm crawl and started for-real crawling right at 7 months. (Now he's pretty fast)

*shortly after crawling, started pulling himself to stand up holding onto things.

*"cruises" all over the house holding onto the couch, shelves, chairs, etc. Walks pushing the toy shopping cart or laundry basket around.

*in the last week, definitely has the words "momma" and "dadda" down and uses (and sometimes over-uses) them appropriately!

*is super happy and smiley all the time.

*is very very calm (calm like he needs to freak out more if a stranger picks him up ha.)

*has found his fingers, tongue, belly button, ears, and is always intently trying to figure it all out. So cute. 

*is starting to play peekaboo and other fun chase games.

*gets more compliments on his pretty blue eyes than I ever get on my anything.

*has a favorite toy that looks like a little remote but is really a prank-noise-maker that we got in a white elephant gift exchange a couple years ago, haha.

*makes a big loud squealy noise when he's excited (especially when he sees me turn on the bathtub, or when Garen gets home from school)

*still loves to just kick and kick like crazy. He does it laying in bed at night, against the seat in the car, randomly during play time against the wall or couch while laying down, kicks me while I change his diaper, or in the pool or tub. I've even seen him just sitting up and put his on top of his toys, and try to move them around with his feet!

*frequently closes the door on himself in the bathroom or laundry room and then just sits and yells for "momma!" When he can't get out. 

*is always opening cupboards and pulling everything out of them (but we recently put some baby locks on them so that should be over with.)

*is the CUTEST BESTEST baby boy we ever had and we all love him to bits!!!

I can't believe he's 3/4 of a year old!