John Huston now 9 months! We had his 9 month check up today and he weighs 20 lbs 15.5 oz and 29 1/2 inches long. Dr. Bennuri said he is going to be a tall boy, just like his Daddy. He got his first flu shot and has to get the booster one in 1 month. He did great and hardly cried afterwards. They also checked his iron level since a lot of babies are anemic from not getting enough iron in their diet and his was perfect...10.4! He doesn't have a lot of patience waiting in the doctor's office so he entertained himself by tearing up the paper liner into shreds and clashing tongue blades into the walls. He even took off Dr. Bennuri's glasses!
He now loves to cruise furniture and got his first 'owie' a couple of weeks ago when he fell on the floor when he was climbing up the fireplace and Buster moved just at the right time. He climbed his first set of stairs at Nanny's house too. John Huston doesn't like his walker as much as he can get around just as fast on his own. But he does use it to hold on to and trys to walk...but few falls usually happens!
He loves to help me in the kitchen as he unloads the dishwasher, picks out food from the fridge door and grabs my pots and pans from the cabinet.
I won a little walker wagon with alphabet blocks from collecting pampers points in diapers and he loves to ride around in it when his Daddy pushes him.
He loves to stand up in the bathtub and play with his fireducky. A good bath kills a cranky mood at night.
But what goes along with the standing is the bad part of him standing up in the highchair. Unfortunately we had to add the ugly straps to the highchair that Lloyd built. John Huston has 5 teeth now, 3 up top and 2 on bottom. I can't wait for the 4th one on top so they could at least be even. We now have added a meat for lunch with his vegetable and fruit and he eats a meat/vegetable/fruit for supper. We are going broke on feeding this boy! He also has a snack between breakfast and lunch and after he gets up from his nap before dinner and take 3 bottles a day. I hope we can move to table food soon! He is in stage 4 diapers and we had to start putting stage 5 on him at night so he could sleep better. Still doesn't like those wet diapers!
The 9 month mark also means something else...no more pumping! I had started weaning after he turned 8 months and then I was able to finish a few days ago. It's a bittersweet feeling as I am proud for doing it as long as I could and then again I am no longer tied to the pump and can sleep an extra 20 minutes in the mornings before work. At least I have another one or two months of milk saved up in the freezer.
