9 Months Old

Oh my Benji you are growing!!  You are so chubby and so cute!  Your little knee rolls are to DIE for.  At 9 months old you weighed in at 23lbs, 7 ounces at your doctor's visit, and you were 29.75 inches long, which puts you in the 90th percentile for both.   I can't recall your head measurement, but it was in the 95th percentile.  Just for comparisons, at 9 months old Luke weighed in at 23lbs even and was a bit over 30 inches.  You are wearing all 12 month clothes, with the exception of sleepers which are starting to be mostly 18 months.

You LOVE to eat!  You literally scream between bites or if we pause for the briefest moment.  You take in about 26 ounces of milk daily, divided over 4 bottles.  In addition to that you eat oatmeal or yogurt for breakfast, a stage 1 or 2 for lunch, and 2 stage 2s for dinner.  If you aren't eating when we are eating, then you want bites of our food, too!  For non-baby food items....you like blueberries, bananas, noodles, popsicles (courtesy of Luke).....who am I kidding, you like it all!!! Well, except for baby food peaches.

You are such a good baby and you love to play with your (or Luke's) toys.  We can sit you on the floor and you can entertain yourself for a good long while.  You like to have all of your toys in a bucket so that you can choose what you want to play with.  When it is all said and done you have touched them all and they are scattered a good distance. 

Ben, you are dying to crawl, you just haven't figured it out yet.  Instead, though, you use your super flexibility to reach and get just about everything you want.  If you aren't reaching then you are turning circles or scooting around.  Your other means of transportation is your walker.  You are getting fast and dangerous.  When you are in the walker Luke likes to sit on a stool or on the couch so you don't get his feet.

Benjamin, you are our joy and we love you so much!!!