9 Months: Sooooo Big!

Yes, another William update. Again, I know that these aren't too exciting but I like to record them for both ancestors' and descendants' sake.

Yup, he's nine months and he is getting soooooooo big! This stage is my FAVORITE--I'm loving it. I always think the current stage he's in is the best (well, maybe not that newborn stage, with all that crying and lack of sleeping). He really is so much fun!

His stats (50% for both):
20 lbs. 4 oz.
28.5 inches long

Fun things the peanut has been up to:

• crawling EVERYWHERE--his favorite place to crawl is up the stairs (he is obsessed with those darn stairs)
• making it known what he wants: when he wants anything he crawls up to your legs, stands up and whines.
• eating EVERYTHING in sight except baby food. He will literally push baby food away. One of his favorite treats right now is toast with homemade raspberry jam. Yum, yum! Plus, when you are eating, WATCH out because he is right there in two seconds, begging for food.
• feeding himself while eating. Boy, does this make like easier. I just sit him in his highchair, give him some food and voila: two free hands for me.
• wrestling his stuffed bear. He will just try to eat his nose and tail and roll around on the floor with that bear. It is so darn cute.
• teething. Finally. He is getting his two bottom teeth as we speak, but they are taking their sweet time.
• sleeping through the night. Finally. As in 12 hours--7 to 7. None of this getting up to nurse at 5:30 stuff. I am in heaven. I get 8 hours of sleep IN A ROW every night.
• saying sooooooo big when we ask how big he is (lifting up his arms to the sky. See all pictures).
• furniture cruising, though I don't encourage this because I don't want him to walk. Ever.
• sneaking into small spaces. He loves to crawl under his crib. Sometimes he can't get out, though and that makes him mad.
• laughing and giggling at his dad.
• never sitting still. Constantly moving. I told Josh the other day I was worried he might have ADHD because even when he is nursing he is moving (sort of makes it difficult, but that makes life interesting).
  

Saying soooo big with Dada.

Posing with Mama.

Eating, eating, eating!

Making his little "piggy" noises.