9 Months

Judah is now 9 months old! I don't know what happened last month, but I missed posting about his 8th month passing. It goes by so quickly!

He now has four teeth, with a few more on the way. He pulls up to standing, can clap and wave bye-bye (sometimes he gets the two confused and tries to do them at the same time, which is pretty funny). The teething issue has caused major sleep disruptions for both of us, but we're surviving... for the most part! Do you see his big top front teeth?

He loves his brothers, and crawls off to wherever they are. When they go outside and he is stuck inside, he will cry about it and stand at the door and bang on it! Poor thing can't wait to be big like the rest of them.

He's eating more solids, and isn't picky about anything at all, thankfully! If he can chew it, he loves it. The only thing he doesn't have alot of patience with his being spoon-fed. He likes finger foods, so we've skipped the whole "baby food" stage. He also has the hang of using a sippy cup for water. He's a hefty 23 pounds already - the biggest of them all at this age! He's still nursing regularly through the day (and night...), too.

This is what has to happen after all of that finger-food self-feeding:

Don't you love how dignified he's trying to look? lol! He's outgrown his tub, do you think? And do you see all of those rolls?!

I can't believe he'll be a year old soon!

My nine year old with my nine month old! (Can you tell we like footie PJ's here?)

Oh, and he has an official nickname. In fact, I don't think any of the kids actually call him Judah. Everyone around here calls him "Bean". How that happened, I'm not exactly sure, but it stuck! He even answers to it!