BarefootinBoston

Yesterday E turned 9 months old…don’t know if I’m setting myself up for failure by continuing the number game with how old E is, but here goes 9 new things for him (hopefully all being the past month).

1. He gives kisses! I say mama kisses and make a kissing noise at him and more times than not he opens his mouth towards my lips…a special kind of E kiss I suppose.

2. He’s standing so well! He switches between hands and sways back and forth holding onto whatever it is he’s holding onto.

3. He’s starting to get the itch to crawl. This isn’t shown through his ‘tummy time’ but rather when he is sitting on the ground, he’s always putting his two hands on the ground in front of him and rocking, although his knees have yet to come under him.

4. He waves…most of time time! It’s really cute.

5. He’s starting to scoot around a little, turn in circles, move a little in one direction.

6. E has started to make some new sounds…some g’s and is more talkative than he used to be…if that’s possible.

7. He plays independently longer…yea…not as long as *some* babes, but longer than he used to.

8. He’s got so many teeth now…he’s up to 4, three of them being the past month!

9. The whole object permanence thing. E will follow an object out of view and fuss if he can’t get at it.

I cannot believe how old E is getting…he’s growing so rapidly, in every way possible.

E has this singing dog he received for Easter from my mother. It sings Close to You by The Carpenters…incidentally a song I have been singing to him since he was born (after we received the dog, that has stopped). Well, E has grown to recognize the song and now searches for rufus, as I would like to call the singing dog, whenever I start to sing Close to You. And sometimes, when we’re lucky, E will sing back in his own way.

However, it all came together nicely yesterday when he awoke from his nap and was talking to himself. I peeked in and there he was, looking at rufus on the floor, and ’singing’ to him. So cute. The things they learn amaze me…

E has finally gotten figured out the pincer grip…and I would say quite quickly at that.   I have been trying to get him to eat finger food for several weeks now.  It started out that he couldn’t even get the food near his mouth, if in his hands.  Then he moved onto palming it in a weird sort of way but not being able to get it in his mouth…slowly he could get the food into his mouth, but not all of the time.  The past few days he has been really showing off with the pincer grip…I would say within a week he started to use it, and not really get the food in his mouth, but now he not only grabs the food but can get it into his mouth most of the time.

He is very proud of himself for figuring this out, which is super cute.  And it makes him happy to get some food in his mouth too!

I’m excited that he has figured this out, but mostly because it will make my life a little easier.  Whenever I would give him finger food, I would always have to keep feeding him, but now that he can grab the food, I don’t have to do as much for him…now onto spoon feeding, HA.