Jack finally had his 9 month appointment on Wednesday. He is a perfectly healthy, wiggly, and happy baby. (The doctor had a hard time uh...examining Jack cuz Jack was being his normal self - flailing his arms and kicking the doctor!) His numbers looked good:
*Height: 30 inches *Yes, we have a very tall boy on our hands - just above 90th percentile*
*Weight: 21 pounds, 8 ounces. *Just below 75th percentile. I think our little porker is starting to even out. Really he has only gained 10 pounds since he has been born!*
*His noggin is also nice and large and full of brains ranking in size just above the 95th percentile!
This picture clearly shows how big Jack is! Our large boy has obviously outgrown his little bouncer chair. As you can see, when he is in it, it almost touches the ground. Oh he used to be so cute and little in it! :) We thought this pic was so funny with his long leg dangling down!
So, here's a few of the amazing things Jack can do and things he likes at 9 1/2 months old.
*He says mama, dada, no ooie (No Chewie), cock-a-doodle-doo, bye-bye, and papa. Ya know, the baby version of these words. But these are definites we have heard out of his mouth. He will try to repeat pretty much anything Dustin says, but not so much for mom. He also just loves to happily yell and scream, even when we are in church, because he likes hearing his own voice. He also has gotten pretty good at waving "Hi" and "Bye-bye" but can be stingy when he busts them out.
*He is doing a creeping, caterpillar-esque type double handed army crawl. He just started doing this more and more this week and he is getting faster and faster. He especially cruises if you stick food out in front of him!
*He is Mr. Independent when it comes to eating and will usually only eat something if he can feed it to himself which narrows his nutritional intake to Cheerios, crackers, gold fishies, and a few other things he has let me break up and put on his tray. The doc said just go with it. Let him eat anything soft that we are eating. Loves the mac n cheese and the other day he had spaghetti noodles for the first time and LOVED them. It seems baby food days are gone already.
*He is becoming SO active when he sleeps that he wakes himself up when he gets crammed or stuck in a corner or has stuck his legs out the bars of the crib. Here he is, with his classic sleeping pose actually holding still in his sleep for a minute!
But he did wake up with a scratch on his nose, probably from him throwing his arms everywhere. But my he is happy little guy! Another funny thing about how he sleeps sometimes is that it is just like how Dustin sleeps - on his side, hugging his blanket. So cute!
*He loves to walk! He will grab hold of our hands and take off speed walking! He also loves when we pull him to standing or when we stand him up to anything - his crib, the coffee table, his pushy thing, etc. He is trying to pull himself up to things, but hasn't quite got all the way with that yet.
*He absolutely loves tubby time, his pool, and just being in water. He is definitely our little water baby!
P.S. If you click on the pool picture and make it bigger, I discovered you can see his teeth REALLY good in that picture!
*He loves to chew on EVERYTHING! And I thought I had to worry about Chewie...
He has been doing some serious teething lately. He is now working on his 6th tooth coming through. He has 2 on bottom, this one will be the 4th on top! Can you see his little teeth, already with a lovely gap! :)
*He also loves his daddy (Daddy gets the best grins when he gets home from work), his mommy acting like a goofball, Chewie (oh he laughs and laughs at Chewie), Chewie's toys and bones, shooting hoops and dancing to the music at his sports station (video of him hooping it up coming later), playing with real keys, chewing on paper, and going for walks. Here he is on walk the other day and I was letting him feel some different textures.
**Although it is exciting to see him do new things, reach milestones, and grow bigger, it is also hard for us. Jack is growing up TOO quickly and time is going SO SO fast! Sometimes we just want to tell him to put on the brakes and slow down a little!**
We love you Jack!! Yee- haw!
6 comments:
So cute! He looks so much like your husband. I bet you are having so much fun with him. I hope school is going good!
Oh man what a cute little guy...isn't it great seeing all the big boy stuff they do...it sure is rewarding. I love all the pictures.
What a big boy! They grow up so fast, don't they? He is a cutie with Mommy's eyes and Daddy's smile.
Hey i can't believe he is so old and i have never seen him in person yet.... oh and by the way... how do you know mike and kristi shaw? they were in our college married ward and i saw your name on their blog... amyways they had their baby! well hope all is well.
Your little guy is so cute! The picture of him sleeping with his hands behind his head reminded me so much of how my Ty use to always sleep! He is getting so big! I agree with you on hitting the breaks. I wish I could hit the breaks with both of my kids. It go's by way to fast. Brooke
such a cute boy. time sure does fly by.
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