9 Months Old and Still Growing!

Truxton went in for his 9 month and surprise! He is still a shrimp.

He weighed in at a whopping 17 lbs. 4 oz. (18th percentile)

Measured just under 28 in. (95th percentile)

and his head came in at 18 3/4 in. (96th percentile)

BUT... he is doing well and is such a smart little fart. He is such a happy little man and so full of personality. Here is what he has been up to:

1) He is crawling everywhere and anywhere he can and as fast as he can.

2) He has mastered the stairs, well the going up part anyway.

3) He has a walking cart and will walk from one end of the house and back over and over again, and does it all by himself. He can turn it around once he has hit a dead end.

4) He can stand and balance on his own for 10 to 15 seconds.

5) He is picking things up with his fingers and can feed himself snacks.

6) He has started saying "mum mum mum," "ya ya ya," "eh" and "ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba".

7) He does have his 2 bottom front teeth and has (we think) 1 or 2 more on the bottom and 1 or 2 on the top coming in.

8) He waves hello and good-bye to everything. Yes I said everything. It doesn't have to be alive or moving, but he likes to be friendly and be sure to wave.

9) He can shake his bootie when you tell him to dance.

10) He love to give kisses. Big, wet, juicy, open-mouthed kisses. But be careful. You might get a little something extra with those smooches. He likes to remind you that he has teeth and he knows how to use them.

11) He is really good at mimicking us and the things we do. He also knows what a few things mean or that if he does certain things he can get us to do what he wants. Maybe a little too smart.

12) I am sure there was more I was going to say about what he is doing but I can't remember right now.

He is eating well, but the doctor has suggested we stuff him until he is beyond full to try and pork him up a little more. Between his supersonic metabolism and his being an active busy bee, he is burning off the calories before any of them can stick. And that is why he wakes up once a night still for a bottle that he finishes off in record time and goes back to sleep.

He still loves to climb up and over Mount Zeus and Moose and they still don't mind. Moose likes it simply because he considers it a full body massage. Zeus is his protector (more like "mother hen") and keeps a close eye on him and let's me know when he has a poopie diaper. And they both enjoy cleaning up after snack time.

This first picture is of Truxton having a crazy hair day. We have a lot of those in this house and he isn't the only one that suffers from it.

This is the frontal view......once he realized I was taking pictures of him (which he obviously wasn't too thrilled about at first).