Oh Felix boy (boo, buboo, tiny bub boy). You are 9 months old. You are so ridiculously cute and I tell you that about one hundred times a day. You are doing this new thing where you scrunch up your nose and grin at us. You do it all day long. We love it.
Your little personality is really starting to emerge. You are a funny guy. You like doing tiny naughty things and being caught, like playing with cords that are plugged into the wall and playing in the toilet. You also love eating things off the floor and making choking sounds.
You can be very sensitive and cry at loud noises or when you can't find me right away. You most recently really don't like being changed and squirm away with all your might. You are very snuggly and friendly and your favorite spot is still on my left hip just hanging with me.
You have been crawling in earnest since your 8 month birthday. Christmas Eve, your big sister's 5th birthday, you got the hang of being up on all fours. Now you're gaining speed and when you're awake you only want to be exploring (unless you want to be held, you still like that a lot too).
You can climb the stairs now and have been pulling yourself to stand and cruising along furniture for about two months. You still seem very happy with crawling so I'm holding out hope that you'll wait to walk until your first birthday!
You are not very interested in any books that don't have lift the flaps or tiny puppets or something else to capture your interest so we read your favorites over and over again (this, and this, and this). You favorite toys are my old cell phone, the remote control, these stacking cups, and these cars. Mostly you are just happy to crawl around and are most interested in whatever your sisters are doing. You LOVE wrecking any block/magna tile structure and immediately tearing apart the train tracks we make. Playtime on the floor has gotten very interesting.
You love to eat. You are my first baby who is REALLY into baby food. You're in a tricky phase where you want to feed yourself but can't pick up really tiny pieces well yet. So I scoop food onto your spoon and hand it to you. You will eat almost anything, but your favorites are yogurt, cottage cheese, bananas, mangoes, blueberries, squash, cauliflower, any soup or stew (split pea, beef, lentil, barley and chicken). I do lots of blending of leftovers and putting them into ice cube trays to freeze for later meals. I still have to make big batches of baby food every weekend! I (mostly) love it!
I am still nursing you which has been a bit of an adventure. Both of your sisters were done with that by your age. You love your two big bottles a day, but I'm happy that nursing is still working for us too.
Just this past week you are finally sleeping through the night (7pm-6am!). You hadn't slept through straight ONCE! until that first time four days ago. It's been a rough road getting here but I'm glad we road it out. We get in our extra snuggles and feedings now during the day and I think we're all remembering how good it feels to be rested!
You are such a blessing to us little baby. We love you every minute and can't imagine our family without you!
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