- Pooping only about every 3 days but by god, if it’s not the weirdest thing to see a lump of poo in his diaper that is about as hard as a piece of coal. (And if you didn’t already know, parents could talk about poo all the time; it’s non-parents who think this is weird)
- His new favorite distraction: straws. Except his drool gets all inside it then he flings it across the restaurant. Cover your plates whenever dining in the same place as our family
- New trick: you know when people in movies go crazy and they take their finger to their lips and blubber up and down? Yeah, we taught him that
- The so-called 9 month sleep regression has sort of kicked in. He’s still sleeping but in getting to fall asleep each night, he flops around in the crib, gets up on all fours and rocks, because his body is so focused on learning to crawl
- We do not like hats that much
- Nor pools
- But we love touching anything with buttons
- Or fur
- Or rabies tags
- String cheese is his new favorite food.
- He’s learning to pick up foods like pieces of banana and chicken except he can’t figure out how to open his hand to put the food in his mouth, so it just sort of smooshes onto his face.
- He turns 9 months old in 2 days and I will try to get a letter written.
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rabies … tags? … OH. I get it. The metal tags that show that the animal … you know what? nevermind. I’m awesome.
He sounds delightful and totally normal. It was around this time that Grayson stopped wearing hats … and no one else is allowed to wear hats either, for that matter. Hats get thrown to the ground! Take THAT, icky hat!
LOL. Yeah, he’s definitely at that phase now.