Junior Update

Okay, Okay, Okay - it has been way past his 9 month appointment and in less than a month I should have an update for his one year, but here it is anyway!

9 months - Dr. appt. on 11/16/09
Height: 30" - 90%
Weight: 22 lbs. 3 oz - 70% (we were all, even the Dr., a little surprised at the percent)
Head: 46.7 - 82%

His appointment went good and he is a growing boy.

Junior is still just a happy guy and a fun to be around. He wants to be in Katelynn's area or face all the time and depending on what she is doing decides whether she is okay with it or not. He is now saying mama and Dada, but not much else. He got a bunch of Tonka trucks for X-mas and I taught him to go "Barroom, Barroom" when he pushes them around. Everything is now a truck and he makes that noise, it's pretty darn cute. He has 4 teeth on top and 4 on the bottom. He is basically eating whatever we are eating. He does not like eggs, at all. We have tried scrambled eggs, eggs over easy (or whatever that one is called?) and even egg bake, he puts a bite in his mouth, makes a face and screams because it's sitting on his tongue. Anytime after we have tried to trick him with a bite of egg he is then unsure about the next bite of anything that you are going to feed him. He has been army crawling for awhile now and just recently is starting to crawl like a normal child! He is pulling himself up on everything and can stand without hanging on pretty well and maneuver up and down and around the furniture. We have tried to get him to walk with us holding his hands but he seems pretty uninterested in it. He climbs the stairs like there is no tomorrow and anytime there is not a gate up and you put him down that is where he is going. This has definitely been a new adventure for Dan and I and him being moving around all over the place. We never dealt with any of this with Katelynn, she didn't crawl or roll to anywhere, she walked when she turned one. One night, a few days after he starting pulling himself up I took him upstairs to make a bottle and put him to bed and placed him sitting in the middle of the living room floor and didn't think anything of it. I am standing in the kitchen going about the business of making his bottle and "CRASH". He crawled over to the kitchen table and grabbed a chair and tried to pull himself up and the chair toppled right over on him and he fell straight back with chair following. Whoopsie's! Lesson learned after that, he needed to be in the line of sight at all times.
We are anxiously awaiting his first birthday and it's hard to believe that it's already been a year. I look at some kids that are 2 years old and think in another year that's where he will be and there are no more babies in my house, it's exciting, scary and sad, all at the same time.