Peanut is 9 months old today and it takes a fast finger to take a photo of him on his back like this.

This is what he looks like most of the time nowadays.

This has been a big month for our little mover. Here are the highlights:

• Gross Motor: He mastered crawling and pulling up to stand – two huge milestones! Now’s roaming the house and getting into lots of mischief when he can.
• Teeth: Peanut grew another bottom tooth!
• Speech: He makes lots of noise and his favorite sound is “da-da”. He says is mostly when he’s really happy. He only recently starting saying “ma-ma” when he’s not mad.
• Fine Motor: Picking up food with his thumb and index finger now. He does less smashing into his mouth too.
• Sleep: We went through a period of waking every 3 hours at night but he’s now waking and getting himself back to sleep without any help. He definitely cries but Mama doesn’t have to get up anymore. Yay sleep!! He also started sleeping in the pack-n-play this past month and we handed down his co-sleeper to Henry’s little brother who will be born any day now! Bedtime is consistently between 7 and 8 every evening. Naps are still around 9am for an hour and 1pm for about 2 hours.
• Food: This boy loves to eat and has moved onto to soft cubes and shredded or ground meat. New stuff includes egg, noodles, rice, bread, lemon, cheese, and green beans.
• Other: Peanut flew on a plane back from Cerritos earlier this month and got his own seat. Yai was also in town for a week while Dada was in France and then came back the following week with the rest of the family to celebrate big sister’s 4th birthday.
• Clothes and Diapers: Still in Size 4 diapers and still in 12-18 month clothes.

Happy 9 months, Big Boy!!