9 Months

As you can see, Emmett no longer tolerates my photoshoots.

Big Baby Emmett celebrated his nine month birthday on the 16th and I was real emotional.  In the last month he has gone from gigantic helpless infant to gigantic mobile monster.  He's no toddler, he's just a ferocious mobile machine.  He no longer likes to cuddle.  Sigh.  He grew out of his swing and does not like his jumper anymore.  Instead, he sets his sights on an object and will literally destroy anything in his path to get said object.  Lucky for us, he is the friendliest monster you'll ever meet.  He still loves to laugh (I'll never get tired of saying that) and has added an adorable scrunch face and snort to his happy face.  Could he be more perfect?  I think not.

Scrunchface.

He has a total of three teeth.  His bottom two front teeth came in and then...a top fang?  I mean really?  A fang?  Where did this come from?  Well, it's there now.  I think it is technically called an incisor but to be honest, I am too lazy to look it up.  I keep checking to make sure it's not his front tooth with a HUGE gap.  That would be one heck of a dental bill.  So, hopefully his front teeth will join soon and calm my fears.

Teeth!

In the last month he progressed from random yoga poses to hopping on his knees to cammando crawling to real crawling and now standing.  So, if the progression continues he is going to be walking in no time.  Well, if I have anything to do with it I will delay it as long as possible.  I'd love to keep him "small" like Bonsai kittens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai_Kitten) or Chinese foot binding.  Totally normal I am sure.  As he grows we keep giving away our baby stuff cause we are done.  I know we are done because of the picture below.  We don't have the sanity for more kids.  But, it pulls at my heart strings a little that Baby Emmett is growing so fast and won't be a baby for much longer.  Big sigh.  Wipe tears.  Move on.

Chaos.  Pure chaos.

Okay, the stats.  I know you have all been waiting patiently through my emotional rant.  We switched pediatricians and met Dr. Low for the first time and loved her.  So much better than our old office/doctor.  Thanks for the recommendation Maureen!  Emmett weighed in at 26.8 lbs. is 31.5 inches long and his head circumference is 19 inches.  So that is 99% for weight, 100% for height and 99% for head circumference.  You heard it here, he is back on the charts!  Yay for baby Emmett.  He is normal?  Okay, not normal but at least he has a percentage.  No shots this time around but shockingly he's anemic.  Say what?  I think it was because he had the stomach flu the day before (yep, the stomach flu visited our entire family AGAIN) or maybe it was because he hates green veggies.  So, we have been better about giving him little bites of everything we eat but he chokes on everything just like Big Bro Jameson.  Frustrating and scary.  Luckily he seems to be getting better at "chewing" with his three teeth each passing day.  :)

As you can see, he "chewed" my awesome sign on both corners.

So, this month, through tears, I would like to tell all new Moms, heck all Moms out there, to kiss your kids, hug your kids and tell your kids you love them as frequently as possible.  And, take as many pictures of your kids as possible.  I am sure it is because Emmett is our last but these things have hit home lately.  Especially pictures.  I take a lot of pictures but this month specifically I kept telling myself to record Emmett's yoga poses on camera and low and behold...he no longer does it and I didn't get it on video.  So, I took it as a lesson to slow down and when I think to do something, just do it!  Even if Brooklyn is yelling from the bathroom and Jameson has climbed up the wall, just stop and take a video of Emmett.  There you go, a self lecture.

Does this diaper make my butt look big?

Happy nine month birthday my big, blonde, blue-eyed, beautiful baby Emmett!