Nine Months Old.

Happy 9 months, Lincoln!

This past month has been so.much.fun with Lincoln! His personality is rapidly developing and he is exploring the world with his little army crawling that has transitioned into mainly "belly off the floor" crawling. He loves to just play all the time. He loves just about anything he can get his hands on and boy does he try to get his hands on everything! He likes to mimic facial expression as well as sounds.

Nine Month Stats:

• Weighs about 20 pounds and is about 28 inches long
• He sleeps from about 7:30-6:30 each night
• He takes two naps a day morning and afternoon. This month he went on strike for the evening nap.
• He is wearing mainly 6-9 month and 6-12 month clothes with some 12 month clothes.
• Wearing a size 3 diaper
• He is eating us out of house and home! He still drinks 5 bottles a day of 6 ounces of formula each. As well as solids 3-4 times a day. For breakfast he eats 4 oz of applesauce and diced peaches, lunch consists of 6 oz of baby food as well as diced peaches, a snack in the afternoon and dinner is again another 4-6 oz of baby food.
• He is eating more of the jarred baby foods at the "3rd food" consistency, as well as diced peaches, cottage cheese, and chunks of ham. He just l.o.v.e.s to eat! I have slowed down on making the baby food because he likes it at a thicker consistency and I do not feel confident in my skills to make it the right consistency for him.
• He has a total of 5 teeth with his 6th one VERY close to coming in
  

• He loves to click his tongue
• He spent his first night (two in fact) away from mommy! He had a great time with Papa and Gigi.
• He continued to army crawl for quite a while this month but about halfway through the month he discovered to crawl with his belly off the floor. Every day since then he crawls more that way than army crawling. If he gets going too fast then he falls on his stomach and continues army crawling the rest of the way.

• He has learned how to wave and on occasion he has even said the "b" sound with it as if you are trying to say "bye, bye."
  

• He is learning to give high-fives but he is not great at it yet.
• He just started pulling up on things onto his knees and is very happy about it.
• He continues to LOVE to clap. He loves to crawl over to me so I can stand him up and then he just claps for himself.

• He still loves to sing the sleepy song when he is going to sleep
• He is starting to use ma-ma and da-da for the correct parent. We laugh because when he is happy he crawls around saying "da-da, da-da" but when he is upset, hungry or tired he says "ma-ma, ma-ma, ma-ma" over and over and over with the saddest little tone!

Lincoln, this past month has been an absolute joy with you! You are such a fun baby to be around. You just love to clap and laugh. While you are sitting down you spin around in a circle on your bottom if you are really excited. You are so curious and a major thinker. You have been nicknamed "Thinkin' Lincoln." When we are out at restaurants you love to watch all the people and you love to stare at the waiter or waitress. You get extremely excited when I pick you up from school. You crawl over to me and when I pick you up you lean your head back and look at me to make sure its really me and then you "eat" my face and giggle. When daddy comes home from work you try to get out of your high chair to get into his arms. Another thing that you L.O.V.E is the shopping cart. You bounce up and down with the biggest smile on your face when we put you in there. And our most favorite thing is that you love to bounce your torso up and down anytime you hear any music or we sing to you. As you can tell, you are just a fun guy!

We love you! M and D