NINE MONTHS OLD!

Carson is 9 months old today! We can hardly believe it! He celebrated by breaking in another tooth, bringing the grand total to 2! (Both on the bottom).

Carson has reached so many developmental milestones in the last 9 months:

• 6 weeks - first smile
• 2 months - sleeping through the night
• 3 months - first full blown giggle
• 4 months - rolling over from stomach to back
• 5 months -solid foods
• 6 months - breast milk to formula, sitting up
• 7 months - da da dadada da dada....ma mamama mama
• 8 months - clapping, dancing, and standing
• 9 months - two bottom teeth!

We don't have our 9 month check up until later in August, but we did weigh the little guy (or should I say BIG GUY) tonight before his bath...19 lbs 7 oz! I can barely lift him in his car-seat anymore. We are thinking he is pretty close being to big for his infant car-seat, and have started to research our next car-seat purchase.

Another big change in recent weeks was dropping Carson's crib mattess as low as it could go. One morning, I woke up to a very scary view in our video monitor! Carson has both hands up on the crib rail, and one knee propped up on the crib bumper...he looked like he was about to dive over!

Ryan and I never considered that it was time to lower the mattress, as Carson shows no interest in crawling, sitting up from a lying down position, or even rolling over on to his stomach from his back! The things babies do when left to their own devices...

 Usually I sneak in his room before I turn in for the evening, and kiss him goodnight one more time...now I can't reach him :(

Six months ago, this first time Mom was very worried about SIDS, and all sorts of items that should NOT be placed in a crib with a baby at night...those days are long gone :) We find that the more Carson has in his crib, the longer he will let us sleep in on Saturday mornings! Luckily, he has pretty much grown out of that scary SIDS stage.

The last 9 months have been absolutely fabulous...we can't believe they have flown by so fast. We feel like we have a decent baby routine, and everyone knows their role, including Chomper. She is well aware that her place is below Carson's highchair during all meal times. She even sits by it around 9 PM at night as if to say "can we feed him again guys, please, pretty please?" Here she is taking full advantage of other baby perks:

 Why else was this lovely quilt placed here?

We are excited to see what the next three months bring us, before Carson turns 1 years old! Maybe he will crawl! Maybe he will skip crawling all together and go straight to walking! 

Keep checking in to the blog to find out!