Connor: Nine Months Old

Dear Connor,

      You are our little roly poly. You are nonstop and always rolling around. We think you are going to just skip crawling, and continue to roll to wherever you want to go. It made taking your 9 month pictures very difficult! You are continuously learning new things. Just the other day you learned how to sit yourself up from a laying position. Now you want to sit All-The-Time... even when you're sleeping (we will talk about that later). You have been extra clingy lately, but that's okay. We are enjoying it because before we know it, you will be Mr. Independent and not want to be held anymore. We hope these next few months slow down because we aren't ready for you to turn one!

Love  you forever,

Mommy and Daddy

*What you eat: You normally drink 4 bottles a day (breakfast, lunch, dinner, bedtime). Sometimes you wake up in the middle of the night and we give you an extra bottle. We just started feeding you 3 meals a day. I think you may have had an allergic reaction to something you ate, but I am not 100% sure. We started giving you table food, but I am stopping that for a little while and will continue with baby food.  

*Size clothes: You wear mostly 12 month clothes. You have a couple 12-18 month clothes that you also wear. You wear size 4 1/2 shoes. 

*Favorite toy: Your jumper, snail pull toy, loud singing monkey/zoo toy
*What makes you happy: You love when I hold you. Daddy scares you all the time, and you always laugh. You like playing peek-a-boo and when we clap and yell "yay!"

*Sleep: You normally wake up around 7:30 and take a morning nap at about 10. You take an afternoon nap around 1 and then go to sleep for the night at  7:30.

*Cute things you do: Out of nowhere, you do this whole body shiver. It makes us laugh every time! You put yourself to sleep by humming to yourself, especially when we are in the car. You try to feed us your food and give us your pacifier.

*New things you have done over the past month: You got your first 2 teeth. Your  top ones are about to come out soon, so you are teething like crazy!

You have learned to spit :/ We are not so happy about that. Haha. You throw little tantrums when we don't hold you, or when you get frustrated. You talk and scream, a lot. You have started pointing at things and turn everything into drums. You can sit yourself up on your own and stand up when you are holding onto something. The other night you sat up in your crib and managed to fall asleep sitting up and using your stuffed turtle as a pillow.

This is how most of the pictures from today look: