Nine Months Old!

Its hard to imagine that the nine months that I carried you.. has now doubled and a whole 18 months later from the moment that I found out I was pregnant with you has passed and we have the most handsome, healthy, happy nine month old baby boy. I can't say enough how much I enjoy and have enjoyed this time watching you grow and learn. It means more to me than life itself. And in three very short months you will be a whole year old. Crazy to think that time can pass by so fast...where does it go?!?!

Eli Shane you are 9 months old!

You are always smiling!

Sometimes serious, but that is rare.

Your laugh is the cutest ever, I love it!!

You still have a gummy smile...no teeth yet. I am starting to wonder if we are going to get a mouth full all at once. And although you don't have any teeth, you are the best little eater. Eating whatever we eat and you aren't picky about it. You like to eat. I have discovered that you really like spaghetti. Some other favorites are chicken. I made chicken pot pie recently and you really enjoyed that. You love fruit and anything sweet of course. You are still nursing but only about every 4-5 hours.

Not walking yet, but trust me. You are into everything... I find myself constantly running behind you and putting things back. No No has taken over my vocabulary and none the less yours too!

At 8 months old we thought that you were starting to wave bye bye, and it wasn't long that you really figured it out. I think that we were saying it so much that along with mastering the wave came your second word. Bye Bye. I wasn't too sad because a few days later came your third and that was Ma Ma! So exciting :) I love to hear you say it even though most of the time its amongst the best of your daily babble. We are very sure that you are working on your next word... Dog. You sometimes just say it while your playing but a few times you have crawled up to gunner and pat his back and say dohg dohg dohg....the g being slightly silent. We will repeat it and make the g very present to you and you have repeated it back and kinda growled at the end. almost like you are trying very hard to say it right.

Once you learned to wave you had a rediscovery of your hands and I think realized that you could do so much with them. You started clapping your hands and now you will give five's. So Cute!

Another word that you have started to say is No No. The funniest thing happened the other day. It amazes me that not only do you learn to say a word but in the right context. Your Daddy was playing with you the other day and Mommy was cleaning the kitchen. You started making your way to the kitchen area when your Daddy yelled for you to come back, you stopped mid-crawl and turned his direction saying Da Da...No No!!! I could hardly keep it together. You are too funny! Daddy won that battle you went back to the living room to play.

This picture depicts what is the highlight of everyday for me and that is when you give me kisses, I have to admit, you have been a little stingy with them lately but when you are in the mood to give kisses, you really give them. Baby slob facial, but I'll take it :)

This pool hasn't had much outside use lately but who knew an empty pool to climb in and out of could be so much fun!

You love to do this.

And we love you big guy!

Eight Months Old

If I could have just one wish...right about now I think it would be that the days would slow down. This time I have with you is just going by so fast. It feels like yesterday that I found out I was pregnant and the days flew by that you grew in my belly. It feels like a minutes ago that you arrived. You have changed so much and you are learning so many new things everyday it seems like.

Eli Shane you are Eight months old!!

The last month I feel you have grown leaps and bounds. You said your first word..and of course it was Da Da! He was very very happy though, to say the very least.

You have had some rough nights as far as sleep goes. But I think that your gums are bothering you and you just seem to want to be held.

 You are such a good little eater. You eat just about whatever we eat. You have lost almost complete interest in your baby food for the exception of the fruit. I absolutely can not get you to eat anything veggie in the baby food form. You would much rather it be something that you can pick up and eat yourself. So I have bought frozen small chopped veggies and you eat those, also I have cut up squash, sweet potatoes and green beans for you to eat.

You are still nursing but only about every 4 hours now you have even done a five hours stretch now and again. And you love apple juice and water. You really love to drink water out of a water bottle. I think you think that its fun. but you get so excited when you see someone drinking out of one.

You are so sweet when you wake up in the mornings, I usually just lay you on the bed next to me and you cuddle and give me kisses.

You LOVE to go swimming. You love it so much. I am so glad that you love the water.

I think that you are trying to wave bye bye, but we'll see...I am sure that it wont be long.

You pick up on things very fast.

You have been getting around very well. Still not walking but walking along things like the couch and whatever you can pull up on. You love to push things around, so Daddy and I bought a tractor for you to push around and you would rather push around one of your empty buckets or lids to something. Oh well!

We love you so much!