9 Months!

A lot has changed for my baby boy since my last post.  He has been growing WAY too fast!  Lets see...

On July 10, at 6 months, this baby boy started crawling.  He learned it very quickly, and was quite happy with himself for being able to go he wanted!  

Soon after, he was standing up to everything, and walking along things.  He learned to clap around 8 months, loves to be chased.  If I say, "I'm gonna get you!"  he takes off giggling.  He loves to play peek a boo under his blanket.  He will pull it up to cover his face and then move it, and wait for someone to play it with him.   

This boy loves to scream!  Whether he's happy, hungry, tired, mad, or just wants attention.  Every time I take him to the store he screams.  People stare, and then he smiles.  It's a game.  

He LOVES to wrestle with his brother!  It is pretty funny to watch.  If he sees Gracen sitting on the floor he will attack!  He climbs on him, pulls his hair, rolls over him, and grabs on to his clothes and pulls them back and forth.  If Gracen gets away, usually it ends up that Bridger has toppled over.  Well, he just gets back up and goes after him again.  Screaming and all!  I need to get it on video.

At church, he scares the other kids.  A lot of them end up crying, mostly because Bridger is just a bit too much for them!  He is FULL of energy.  Usually he likes to climb on the other kids to get a better look, and they don't seem to like it.  He gets so excited to see kids that are his size, hopefully one day he will calm down a bit so he doesn't scare them!

He's learning to wave.  I like how he watches his fingers open and close as if he's not sure how they are doing it.  He also likes to say hi.  It's the quietest sound he makes, "hhhhu"  he just makes the "h" sound.  He will also say mama and dada.

On October 26th this baby took his first steps!  He was playing with a sock.  He has been able to stand up by himself without holding anything for a while, and continues to get better at it.  He was standing there shaking the sock, and stepped forward a couple of times.  Since that night, he's done it a few more times.  It probably won't be long before he's walking!

This boy loves to eat!!  We've had a lot of trouble with feeding him.  It took a long time to figure out what was causing him so much trouble.  He has his casein protein intollerance, as well as an allergy to bananas and oats.  Once we figured out the bananas and oats were a problem things got much better for him and he hasn't had so many tummy troubles.  He eats just about anything we put in front of him.  Usually he just eats whatever we are eating for dinner with a very loud hum of "mmmmm."

  He absolutely loves his dad, and usually cries when dad leaves.  He gets really excited to see him when he comes home.  He will only give dad kisses, the big slobbery open mouth kind.  I think I've gotten a few, but not many!  When  I ask for one he just laughs at me and tries to smack my face.  

I love this little man to pieces!  He has such an excitement for all the things that surround him!  He laughs and smiles all the time.  He's also very bouncy and loves to dance.  When he hears music he just starts bobbin up and down.  He keeps us all smiling around here. 

 We're so happy he's ours!

A couple weeks after he started crawling.  He loved to crawl under this table.  

We were having a pretty heavy down pour outside and I didn't realize the sliding door was still open.  Bridger crawled over and enjoyed the rain that was coming in through the screen.  It's hard to tell in the picture, but his head was soaked!

He's always sticking his tongue out.  He really likes tongues.  He's always trying to stick his fingers in my mouth to get mine.

Bridger loves to look through the banister rails at us when we go down the stairs.  He gets all excited, and thinks it's a pretty fun game.

Look!  No hands!  Back when he first started to stand without help.

My sweet sleeping boy.  He cried in the crib.  He cried when I held him.  I laid him on the floor and in minutes he was out!

He loves that binky! 

He loves his big sister and brother!

His cute little teeth.  He now has 5 of them!

He still loves to jump.  I love that happy little face!

Everything must be tasted!

One last thing... at his 9 month well check he weighed 19lbs 5 ozs.  He's my biggest baby.  The other 2 were 19 and 19.5 at 1 year.  We won't have to wait to turn his carseat!