9 Months

Cole's 9 months old today and, as I say nearly every month, I can't believe another month has gone by, and that we're another month closer to 1.  Between our upcoming trip to Maui, and the holidays, it's going to be January before I know it.

The themes for this month are scooting and teething.  In a matter of days, Cole went from spinning himself around to scooting across rooms, and around the main floor of our house.  I'm not sure that he'll ever want to learn to crawl - he gets wherever he wants to go pretty quickly by just scooting along.  This week was the first time I had to keep running after him while trying to make dinner.  Between that and Jackson's constant questions, it takes the craziness that is dinner prep to an entirely new level.

Cole's now onto his 6th tooth!  Over the past 3-4 weeks, all four top middle teeth have started to make their appearance.  Our poor babe - every few days as a new tooth starts coming in, he becomes unhappy, much more clingy, more drooly (last night, he left puddles wherever he was, and his shirt was wet down to his belly button, which is exactly how his big bro spent nearly the first year of his life!) and in general, he's not our normal perky kiddo.  And while we still have a number of nights each week where we don't hear a peep, there are definitely nights where he wakes up needing some comfort to go back to sleep. Hoping after this last chomper is fully in, we all see some teething relief for a bit.

A few other fun things this month:

• Waving - over the last week, Cole is finally starting to (sometimes) wave on command.  This morning, while eating breakfast, J and I waved to him while he bounced around in his jumper and told him to wave but no go.  A minute later, I looked up and he was waving like crazy.  And it's not your normal open/closed hand wave that most babies do...it's a full on arm wave.  Can't get enough of it.
• Babbling up a storm - still mostly sounds with "da" in them (favorites are "a da" and "da-da-da")
• We found the first solid he doesn't care for - potato cauliflower soup.  I gave him a bite, he promptly made a disgusted face and spit it right back out.
• Drinking less and less each day, and seems to enjoy eating larger amounts of solids. There are times when I swear he eats more than Jackson at dinner.  He especially loves pasta with spaghetti sauce.  He is silent the entire dinner, shoveling food into his face as fast as he can.
• Flipped over to his tummy while sleeping a few times. 
• Sat up in his crib for the first time.
• Shrieking (loudly) - not because he's upset or happy, seems to do it just because 
• On the weekends, has been taking just two naps (2+ hours in the a.m., 1-1.5 hours in the middle of the afternoon).  At school he typically takes 2 naps (often one is a long nap) and then may sneak sneak in a cat nap on the way home (and once here, he continues to sleep in his car seat, so I open his window and prop open the door into the house so that I can hear him when he wakes up).
• Favorite activity is whatever Jackson is doing.  Tonight, they were playing with a Little People car track and every time Jackson would send a car down, they'd laugh and laugh.  And then you hear Jackson telling Cole what he was doing. It was the sweetest thing.

Cole's 9 month check-up is tomorrow so I'll be back with stats soon!