The Scotts: 9 Months

Sawyer turned 9 months old on January 12th. He is starting off the new year with a bang! He is pulling up on anything and everything (this includes things that are not possible to pull up on!). He is getting better at crawling and he does a little army crawl because it is easier. Maybe it's because he is sooo big! We will get to that in a minute. We had to lower his mattress again because he loves to climb on his bumpers or knock off the video monitor. When he does pull up, he will let go with his arms and stand there for a second. He thinks he can do all kinds of things that he can't yet! He is also cruising from one object to another (ex.table to couch). He loves to play with his table that he got from Honey and Papa D and even dances sometimes, it is the cutest thing! We had his 9 month appointment last week and it went great. He was only supposed to have one shot but I decided to give him the flu shot since I didn't last time. Five shots just seemed so harsh at his 6 month check up. Dr. Smith is so old school and he said to "feed the boy anything he wants". He even said that we could start whole milk but I think he is still too young for that. I have started giving him a sippy cup with water in it to get him used to it and he likes it a lot. I wasn't sure if he would know what to do with it because he doesn't hold his bottle.

Here are his stats at 9 months:

Weight: 22 lbs 15 oz.

Height: 30 1/2 in.

Diaper: Size 4

Clothes: 12-18 Months

Likes:
(Loves) his Mama! To EAT! His play table, walker, jumparoo, play kitchen, shapes and numbers cookie jar, anything that he can open and close, and his favorite thing to play with are books. He loves to turn the pages and feel the objects with his hand.

Dislikes: Pacis-he always had a love/hate realtionship with pacis but now he mostly uses it as a chew toy, changing his diaper used to be a normal/easy task but now that he is so strong, he wants to roll over and get on all fours. I feel like I am wrestling an alligator sometimes! Being held when he is going down for naps. This makes me very sad because I love holding him but now he knows what we are trying to do. Sometimes when he is really sleepy and I'm feeding him he will fall asleep and I take advantage of that time. Socks-you would think I would have learned by now to wait and put his socks on when he is getting out of the car seat. I always have a little smile on my face when I look in my rear view mirror and see two bare feet. He loves to take them off and chew on them so they are nice and soggy when I get him out.

"Wild Man" after his bath

First time to eat Japanese at Kobe. I was sure the fire would scare him to death but it didn't it. This is actually a great place to take a baby because it is louds and there are a lot of things to look at.

My Dede loves to make me laugh!

Eating lunch at Mr. P's

Crawling!

Pulling Up

Mom and I took the kiddos to the $1 movie last Friday to see Megamind. I was so worried about Sawyer being loud and making it miserable for others around us. Well, he was the best one! After he ate, he passed out for 1.5 hours and watched the last 10 minutes of the movie and then did a little dance during the credits! Afterall, it was only a dollar so I wouldn't have felt so bad if we had to leave. Also, it was a kids movie and there were other babies and kids there so we were in good company.