9 Months

WOW - 9 Month old! I can't believe it. Coleman's been here as long as I was pregnant (oh wait...not quite...we'll have to wait 'til 42 weeks!!). Still, I can't believe how fast the time has gone and he has been up to so much lately!!


He got a wonderful report at his 9 month check up. 45th percentile for height and weight (27.5 inches and 20lbs) and 98th percentile for head circumference! We have one smart boy on our hands. I like to think that his adorable cheeks help to balance out the big head.

The day after I did Coleman's 8 month post where I mentioned how I was hopeful he'd be crawling by this post...he crawled!! And now this little man is On The Move! I'm having a hard time getting anything accomplished around the house (which makes me very thankful for the exersaucer to contain him for short periods of time). Coleman is getting to be quite the speedster. He is in to EVERYTHING he CAN'T have and is only interested in his toys for a short amount of time before going off to find something that he is not supposed to have. His favorites are remotes, cell phones, and Harley's toys. Poor Harley...her toys are put up high on a shelf all day so that Coleman doesn't find them and eat them (eeeww). Harley doesn't have as much access to her water bowl either these days as it has to be put down during nap time and mealtimes since Coleman knows where it is and has been found splashing around in it.

Notice how they are "sharing" the toy....eeww

After Coleman figured out crawling he has also moved on to pulling himself up on everything as well! I'm sure he's going to be climbing soon as well. He loves to pull himself up on the sliding door and look outside.

 He loves to pull himself up on the coffee table (which is now completely bare b/c he's into everything and I've had to replace my decorations with Coleman's toys). Lately he has been pushing a toy and "walking" behind it with very little assistance from us....YIKES! Maybe next time I'll post that he's close to walking!

Coleman has got quite an arm as well. One of his new favorite games is to take a ball and throw it around the kitchen and chase it. It keeps him occupied for quite a while and we are very impressed with how well he has the concept of throwing already...he knows to release the ball at just the right time. Maybe we have a baseball player in the making??


Coleman LOVES to laugh these days and has some very cute ones for different circumstances. We heard him do the silliest laugh we've ever heard when Justin kicked one of his balls against the door.



I think Coleman saves some of his best laughs and smiles for his daddy. He LOVES his daddy so much and it is just precious to watch his face when Justin gets home from work and to see those two interact with each other. Melts this mamas heart!

We haven't heard "mama" as often these days, although he still does say it. He also babbles "dada" a lot and our new favorite is when we say "Uh Oh"...Coleman says "Uh". It's so cute! We're still working on the "oh" part with him.

This month has been a challenge for Justin and I in the diaper changing department. Coleman is quick and doesn't like to lay still for very long....making diaper changing quite the process at our house. I have learned to change him in the crawling position, upside down, you name it, I've attempted to change him that way! It's made it very interesting during those "stinky" diaper changes...we've had some interesting stories on these...but I'll keep those to myself and spare you the details.

Coleman has a giant stuffed dog that he adores. He will look at it from across the room....charge at it...and bury himself with a big sigh into the puppy. When we ask him to give his puppy some love he will take off and give the puppy a "hug" or kiss if we as him. It's cute. He also think that he can do this with Harley...to which she has decided that when Coleman comes crawling at her she gets up and moves. Silly dog. Coleman thinks this is a game and begins to follow her around the house (I kinda feel bad that she can't find a quite spot to lay down).

While we're on the subject of dogs...Coleman still adores his 'puppy' (we think it needs a name...but we'll let Coleman decide that when he's bigger). I like to call it the magic puppy because when he gets it at nap and bedtime, he KNOWS it's time to sleep. This has been a huge help in getting him to sleep for his naps and bedtime. He still loves to sleep on his side...but we think he may have found a new favorite position. Before I head off to bed each night, I go in and peek at him (doesn't every mom do this)...just a make sure he's okay, has a blanket, etc. We've been putting a couple paci's in the crib too so that if he wakes up he can find one and go back to sleep (this lovely idea was passed along by a good friend...thanks Amy V.) So when I've been checking on him, I find him in the far left corner of his crib, on his tummy, with his butt in the air....it's SO adorable!

The little man still LOVES his baths. Now with his new ability to crawl he has been enjoying some "birthday suite" time before bath each night where he gets to crawl around the house and play since he'd rather not be wearing clothes anyway. One night he was in a 'bear crawl' position and I was telling Justin to look at the funny position he was in....turns out he was peeing on our carpet!! YIKES...but it was funny. As soon as Coleman hears the bathwater he takes off down the hallway to the bathroom and pulls himself up on the tub to watch it fill up. I'm glad he loves the water so much...we have even been lucky enough to go swimming with some of the babies from our birth class. It's so cute to watch Coleman "swim"...he likes being dunked too!

Another new trick that we have begun to see is that Coleman is learning how to wave! He will open and close his hand towards himself as a "wave" and he's begun to move his wrist back and forth with a closed fist. We're workin' on it!!

Coleman is very good at helping me in the kitchen. He enjoys playing/pulling things out of the cupboards, using some kitchen utensils to help me cook (by mixing things up on the floor), and he also loves helping me with the dishwasher. I DESPISE unloading the dishwasher so I'm training him early to take over this task for me =)When it comes to eating, our Coleman is a champ! He LOVES food and we have been trying lots of new ones this past month and are beginning to try even more this month as well as letting him "self feed" more often. It makes mealtime a lot messier, but it's nice that he can start doing it on his own. I'm so thankful that Justin and I have worked hard to make sure that we are having dinner together each night as a family around the table. It's been fun to have that time together instead of feeding Coleman, then taking turns eating. Coleman seems to enjoy it too!

This one was taken with my phone so the quality isn't that good...but it's still cute!

So many new things have happened this month and I can't imagine all that is going to happen in the upcoming weeks!