off the rails

Oliver is 9.5 months old today.  Just when we thought his development had stalled, everything happened at once.

The night before his 9 month well visit, I lowered his crib out of fear for his safety, and I honestly put it off b/c it is no easy task.  Who makes a crib that has to be completely taken apart for what should be fairly simple?  Young America, that's who.

Good thing I made time when I did, b/c a couple days later we found him like this.  Yes, he has crazy bedhead, but that's not the point.  He is sitting up and he got there all by himself.  We have yet to witness him doing this on his own, so we have a few theories how this occurred.  The most likely scenario is that he grabbed on to the bars and pulled himself up enough to either stand and then sit or at least get his legs underneath him.  If he can do it once, he can do it again, but now we aren't worried about him tumbling over the sides.

He also got tired of us debating whether or not he would crawl before walking.  I never did, so it wouldn't be completely abnormal for him to skip this milestone altogether.

He showed us and decided to become an inchworm overnight.

He isn't a crawling pro yet, but he is making progress.  He's also very interested in standing and has cruised along the couch a few times.

Now that he is a pseudo-crawler, he can have puffs and yogurt melts.  He loves them and took to feeding himself rather quickly.

His stats are:

weight - 18 lbs/10 oz - 25th percentile

height - 28.5 inches - 50th percentile

head - I don't remember but he def has a little peanut head

teeth - nada

I just did the math and we only have 11 more weeks on formula!  And of course the same amount of time until our baby is a year old.

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Let's move on to big brother Owen.  He's had a very busy summer so far and school doesn't start for another month.

This is a quick pic I took of him before heading out for a sleepover with Sam.  He loves having sleepovers, or maybe he just loves getting a night away from our crazy house.  Sam has a couple years on Owen and doesn't have bed rails.  We normally send rails with him if he's going somewhere, but completely forgot this time.  In fact, nobody noticed until the next day.  I don't know if this was the right time, but we ditched the rail on his bed too and so far, so good.  Of course his bed at home isn't very high, so if he did fall it wouldn't be too far down.

He loves to draw and color, make cards for people, dance and play games.  Both the electronic versions and the old school kind.  Just last night he beat me at Go Fish!

 

I don't know about you, but I am ready for fall.  I get bored easily and I have had enough of mosquitoes and the heat.

One reason I'm excited is that we changed our Disney plans and instead of going in early fall, we will be going a couple months later.  We knew this would be the last time it would be just the three of us (Oliver is staying at home) so we decided to go when it was decorated for the holidays.  We've never been at that time of the year, and they extended free dining so we made the change.  Can't wait to see it snow on Main Street USA!

Oliver stuck out his tongue when I told him the news...