How has it been 9 months already? Nick and I spent our last date night planning Harrison's first birthday. How is that even possible?! While it makes me sad to see him grow so fast, we are LOVING each new stage. He keeps entertained (and on our toes) each day!
Height/Weight
Weight: 19.25 pounds (all in his belly!) = 16th percentile
Height: 29.5 inches = 24th percentile
Hello, new car seats! We were hoping the infant ones would last us until a year but we figured his length would prevent that. We were right!
Head circumference
= 83rd percentile
Clothing Size:
Woo hoo! We are finally in 9 month clothes. He can fit in some 6 month onsies as long as the neck can widen. Otherwise, his big ol' noggin isn't fitting through!
Favorites:
*Food: Bananas! Though, I can't say it enough but Harrison LOVES to eat! There's not much food that he doesn't like but the texture can sometimes get to him. This past month, we've been slowly introducing foods with a thicker texture and some table food. It's been slow and steady to get used to that :) Harrison spent a lot of time gagging and spitting out his puffs, baby "cookies", scrambled eggs, and cottage cheese. He loves his puffs and cookies now but we still need to work on the eggs and cottage cheese.
We've been working on using sign language during his meals. We hope that Harrison can communicate with us before he is verbally able to. He is slowly starting to use the sign for more (or well, his version of more) especially after he eats bananas!
*Book: Woo hoo! We are finally getting somewhere with this whole book thing. We went to visit our good friends and we borrowed their books for our night time read. I picked a touch-and-feel book and Harrison LOVED it! After one time helping him move his fingers on the pages, he wanted to do it all by himself. He was laughing and having a blast reading the stories with me. It was a break through :) Harrison now feels the main objects on every book because he is certain they should all have a fun texture now.
While we have a few different touch-and-feel books, our favorite is the "That's Not My..." series. They are really cute books and have great vocabulary!
*Song: "Teddy Bear Picnic" has been our song of the summer! We like creeping around the living room and pretending we are going to discover the teddy bears.
*Toy: Harrison loves playing with all his toys. One of our favorite new toys is our Activity Garden. Harrison is able to safely stand and play to his hearts content.
Ok, I use "safe" loosely...
*Non-Toy Toy: Anything that he shouldn't be playing with. He lets out his special giggle and gets a big mischievous grin when he knows he's got something that he probably shouldn't. One place that he likes to stand and play? The garbage can....gross!
*Time of Day: We are lucky to continue to have a happy, little guy. He especially loves any time of day where he is out and about. He loves people watching and flirting with the ladies. He will usually stare a person down until they smile at him ;)
Harrison does love when Daddy gets home. His face lights up, he starts giggling, and races towards Dad. Apparently, Mom gets boring after an entire day of hanging out.
*Things to Giggle At: Tickling! Smelling his feet and proclaiming that they are "too stinky" (clearly, I am raising a little boy...)! Anything that Daddy does!
Observations/Firsts/Milestones
We've slowed down a little from major life milestones. While learning new things is wonderful, it's always a tiring time. We are enjoying the 11 hours of sleep per night. I'm sure it will end just as Mom is going back to work!
Harrison can shake his booty! The little guy enjoys dancing to the beat of tunes...especially rap music. Little does he know, the days of hearing that music are limited. Once he can understand the words, we will need to find some other type of tunes ;) Like father, like son.
We are having a blast playing chase with Harrison. He loves crawling after us and trying to get us. He thinks it is HILARIOUS. Also, we've realized how much crawling hurts! We luckily added an alphabet landing pad for Harrison's falls but it also helps cushion the crawling!
Speaking of crawling....Harrison is OBSESSED with crawling up the stairs. Obviously he only gets to test it out with Mom and Dad close by but he can climb them in mere seconds. Baby gates were installed this month!
Harrison also got to meet his bff, Stella. We had a blast driving to Kansas City and spending the weekend with our besties. Harrison was also a trooper and did so well in the car. Even though he was awake for more than half of each trip, he quietly played with his toys. Can't say that's been the case for other car trips...
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