Nine Months

Carter is now 3/4 of a year old – holy cow! This baby is growing way too fast, but we are enjoying every minute of it. He is becoming quite the little character and such a joy to have in our lives.

STATS:

• Weight: 18.4 lbs (10-25%)
• Height: 28” (25-50%)
• Head Circumference: 45.6 cm (50-75%)

• Started making really cute baby noises on a consistent basis, including mamamama, dadadada, bababa, and other noises I am unable to spell or do justice to with typing!  
• Popped his first top tooth on 01/10 and his second on 01/12. 
• Started eating bits of the Gerber puffs without gagging on 01/15.
• Got a old and subsequent ear infection, but I had no idea he had one…and only found out because he was having some reflux and I also wanted to get Andrew’s ears checked. I hate not having warning signs of ear infections…kinda scary, but at least we could it – along with Andrew’s! They both had left ear infections, imagine that!.
• Started crawling officially up on all fours and moving forward 01/30…but that is about all he did. He has officially starting army crawling rather quickly as of 02/07. He still gets up on all four and likes to go into what I call the stink bug position with his bum in the air, but after a few attempts at crawling the right way he gives up and does the army crawl to get to where he wants to go!
• Started sleeping in his own room 01/26.
• Is definitely a mama’s boy. Bry thinks it is so funny to hold him and walk around the kitchen and watch Carter move his head so that he always has me in his line of sight.
• His personality is definitely coming out – he flirts at church, whines on the floor at my feet when he wants to get picked up, laughs at Andrew, makes the cutest pouty face, cuddles when he is tired, flails his arms and legs when he is excited, and has the most hysterical, infectious giggle (possible second only to Andrew’s laugh when you tickle his chin). 

• Somehow he contracted what I assume to be Roseola and was quite sad, needy, and a not good sleeper for a couple days. We spent one night up every 2-3 hours (and when I say “we” I mean me and Carter…Bryan is dead to the world at night! lol) I am happy to say he has full recovered and is eating and sleeping like the good little angel baby he is!
• He does this really funny thing with his tongue – kinda like curling it around the side of his top lip and sucking. He was doing it a lot when I was feeding him sweetened pear sauce (he doesn’t get sweetened fruits often). It was SO funny!
• (not exactly the tongue thing I was explaining, but still cute!)

 

• And he still ADORES his big brother !!!!

Carter still does not take a bottle, but likes to chew on them. I thought he might like some water in a bottle, but no – just likes to munch on it. Andrew thought it was pretty fun to put it in the baby’s mouth – cute boys!

The center of attention….nothing new for this little man!