Paxton at 9 months

Another month has come and gone, so it's time for your update on my little man.

At 9 months, Paxton:

- is crawling on his hands and knees.  He's pretty fast when he wants to be which keeps Mom on her toes!  He's especially quick if we leave him in the living room without a barrier.  As soon as you turn your back he makes a beeline for those pesky dog bones!

- has figured out how to drink his own bottle while sitting up.  He doesn't like to tip it back to drink it.  Instead, he just sucks all the air out of the bag and then gets the formula.  Whatever works, I guess. 

- likes to bob his head to music.  He usually does this while I'm feeding him in his high chair.  Between bites he bobs his head or moves it side to side.  So cute!

- is getting all sorts of new and exciting foods.  I've started giving him yogurt and peach seems to be his favorite.  He wasn't terribly excited about blueberry but he still ate it.  We've also given him mashed potatoes with gravy, arrowroot cookies, and an assortment of baby food.  Bananas and prunes were not good choices at all, but he's been good with all the other kinds we've given him.  Mom is not super excited about the result of all this new food however. *Cough*

- can walk around the furniture now so I think walking is on the horizon.  I found ths out one day when I'd gone up to the kitchen for something and suddenly hear "rrrrrip".  I'd left the book I was reading on a table where it was out of reach, but Mr. Smarty Pants walked himself around so he could reach it.  And it was Auntie Kizzy's book.  It's a good thing she loves her nephew so much!  Sometimes he'll try to push himself up onto his feet rather than his knees, but hasn't quite gotten it right yet.  He hasn't quite figured out how to walk while holding onto someone's fingers yet either, but he's getting there!

- likes to "help" Mom with the dishwasher.  He's decided that since he can now pull himself up on things he should pull himself up on everything!  We've discussed how he's not really very helpful at this point and how I'm pretty sure in about 10 years or so when I start making him help with the dishwasher the fascination will most likely have worn off.  Ditto for the vacuum cleaner.

- is now starting to try to stand up in the bath tub.  Baths have definitely taken less time in the last month since play time has been shortened quite a bit!

- is in size 4 diapers now.  *sigh*

- tries to play with the dogs.  He'll crawl over to one of them on the floor and use them to stand himself up.  He then walks around to their head and "pets" them.  We keep reminding him that he needs to be nice and not hit them.  Good thing Maggie and Mo are so laid back!

- can crawl over things now.  This is especially annoying since he can get over the legs of the computer chair to where the modem is since it seems to be his favorite toy even though Mom is constantly telling him to leave it alone and moving him away.  If he can't get to the modem, Paxton's second favorite thing to do is open the doors on the computer that hide the USB ports.  Again, he is persistent no matter how many times Mom tells him no and moves him away.  Joy.

- has added "go go go go go" to his vocabulary.

- is getting his 2 top front teeth.  This is not a pleasant experience for any of us since they are taking WAY longer to come in than the bottom ones did.  The bottom ones didn't really phase Paxton at all.  With the top ones he's been super cranky and whiney.  The teething is affecting his sleep which in turn affects Mom's sleep.  He's also had a mild fever and a runny nose off and on.  It looks like the right one is almost in, but now the left one has decided to descend.  I really hope that they finish coming in soon and that Paxton goes back to sleeping 8-10 hours straight.  The last week it's been 2-4 hour stints starting between 10 and 11 pm.  Not fun.
 
- has decided he is too big to wear a bib for drool.  Every time I put a bib on him, he pull sit right off.  There are now more wardrobe changes during the day since his shirts end up soaked from shoulder to shoulder and down to about mid-chest.

Posing under the high chair after crawling over the bottom to get there.

See Mom!  Anything can be a toy!

After trying to stand up in the tub.

Mo thinks Paxton's crawling toy is a pretty awesome pillow.

Paxton sitting in his pool in the kitchen (sans water of course).  It was a pretty decent play pen until he figured out he could climb out.

For some reason Paxton would always knock his pool over.  Usually he would be stuck under it, but this day it got caught on something.  So he sat there and played with his toys.

We went to Grammie and Grandpa's house for a few days in August to visit Auntie Kelly and the boys.  Mom put the "Robin Hood" hat on for Paxton.

He was far more interested in playing with the big boy toys however.

And in taking the hat off so he could try to eat the feather.  That was the end of Paxton and the hat.

Playing with Grandpa's watch with Grammie.

Brock decided to walk through the very muddy garden with his crocs on, so they were removed.

He then decided that he needed to wade through every single puddle in the alley, so the crocs went back on so they could be washed off.

2 hats and a ball.  What else do you need to be happy?  I sent one of the hats out with Grandpa, but Paxton didn't want to keep it on, so I took his "swimming" hat out which he keeps on.  And since I'm lazy like that I put the other hat on top.

Why are you laying in the grass, Mom?

Modelling his new Emi hat.  Zane says Paxton looks like a DJ with his hat on.

Since his top teeth have started to come in, the tongue comes out a lot.  So does the drool.

Playing with the baby in the mirror.

What?

Up on the knees.

Not the best picture, but Paxton loves to pull himself on the banister so he can watch the dogs in the living room.  I'm fine with this as long as he doesn't put his head through it like his Dad did ...

Not quite as good as it should have been.  After yet another try at stading up in the tub Paxton ended up with bubbles down the middle of his face from his hair to his top lip.  However he refused to look at me so most of the bubbles had popped by the time I got a picture!