NINE MONTHS!

Ethan turned nine months on 1/24/2009Sadly this is the best picture I could get with Manny this month

The other 20 I took looked something like this:

Poor Manny

Emma's head popping up

If you haven't noticed 9 months is a pretty active age. This little man has been keeping us on our toes. I find myself saying, "Boys are different" quite often. Ethan does things like crawl with his head down and goes until he bumps into something and then pulls himself up on it, dives out of high chairs, yanks every plug out of the wall, eats Polly Pockets like its his job, and other random bad boy things.

We did take him for his check up today and he is perfect! I know we are at the parenting age now because at one point we knew all 3 of the other moms in the waiting room. Anyway his stats are:

Weight: 20 lbs 11 ozs (50%)
Height: 28 1/8 inches (50%)
Head: HUGE (off the chart)

I knew his head was still huge because I always have to buy a size up in hats. It is growing at a consistent rate though so he is fine. With all of his tumbles it is probably better that he has such a large melon on there.

Here is Ethan's top 10 trick list:
1. Eats everything! As long as it is small and/or mushy he is all over it
2. Has the pincher grasp down
3. Can say "Dada" "MA!" "Em-ma" "Yeah"
4. Waves hi and bye
5. Crawls like a crazy man
6. Pulls himself up and surfs along furniture
7. Has 7 teeth, will the 8th ever show up, ugh!?
8. Knows exactly how to push Emma's buttons
9. Takes great naps
10. He can stand all by himself (we call it, Like a big boy) for a long time and actually took a step yesterday.

He is quite amazing and hard not to love (even when he is naughty). Emma is wonderful with him still, well most of the time anyway. She gets really excited for all of his milestones as we do. We are proud parents for sure!