Nine months!

Yes, I know his birthday was Oct. 20, but at least this one is more on time than the last, right?

My baby is 3/4 a year old!!! It's so hard to believe! Even more amazing is how much more we continue to grow in our love for this amazing little man every day!

As every month before this has been a busy month, full of developments and discovery for Ebenezer. He continues to love being outside and will crawl out if the door is left open for any amount of time! He spends part of every standing at one of our several windows studying the world - he especially likes it when Pandora comes to join him!

While he was mastering pulling up last month he is becoming even bolder with it this month, pulling up on any surface that is allowed and within reach - especially my legs! He has also figured put how to slowly squat and sit down instead of just plopping on his bottom. He still isn't comfortable holding on to furniture or fingers and walking yet, but he likes to shake and 'rev-up' while standing.

He loves our new jogging stroller and taking walks to Grandma's house! He does talk much on his walks but he loves sitting and taking it all in.

We tried introducing chicken this last month and he wanted NOTHING to do with it! So much so that he gagged! Sometimes I can slip it in his oatmeal or apples, but not much. He has happily added yogurt, baby oatmeal, biter biscuits, apples, carrots, avocado and banana to his munching repituar though! I have recently stopped giving him banana for a while because he gets a little rash around his mouth after eating it. He really wants to pick food up and feed himself, but he doesn't quite have chewing (well, gumming) down yet. We also introduced a sippy this month but so far he just thinks its a leaky chew toy!

Not much to report on the speech side of development - he does say 'Mama' more but I'm still not sure he associates it with me.

Finally he has cut his top two front teeth and is already working on the ones on either side of those! Not long after the front two broke through he started sleeping much better (only waking two to three times a night), but since these other teeth are trying to make an appearance sleep has been really disrupted again. While I am still tired, the short respite gives me hope that he will be able to sleep on his own in the future - maybe once we get a break from new teeth.