Jack is 9 months old. We only have a few more of these until he turns one. As always, we love him and think he's the best, cutest baby in the world.
At 9 months:
-Jack loves sitting in Adam's lap. When Adam sits on the floor Indian style, Jack comes crawling over with a sense of urgency and frantically climbs into his lap. Adam likes to tease him by dislodging him from the lap onto the floor, but Jack is persistent. He won't rest until he's in his dad's lap.
-He gives wet, open mouth kisses both on command and spontaneously.
-He copies sounds that we make. Sometimes we'll say something and he'll start trying to make the f or d sound. Today when I was taking his pictures I was trying to get his attention with his quacking duck. I kept saying, "duck, duck, duck" and he kept saying, "duh, duh, duh."
-On a similar note, he also says mama and dada. He says dada a lot more than mama, though. For a while I wasn't sure if he knew what he was saying, but then I noticed that he doesn't say dada when Adam is at work, only when he's home. So I like to think that he knows what he's saying and what it means.
-He plays hide and seek with us. Hopefully we'll get a video of this soon because it's super cute. We run away into another room and tell Jack to come find us, then call his name from our hiding spot. He comes crawling after us with a big grin on his face. He's gotten pretty good at it, but I love when he's stumped and then finally catches a glimpse of you. The face he makes is just priceless.
-He also plays peekaboo. He pulls the blanket off of your face and then tries to put it back on to do it again.
-He waves now too. This is something he's been doing for a little while, but again I wasn't sure if he knew what he was doing. But he waves at the right time a lot of the time now. He waves back at you when you wave to him. He waves bye bye when he feels like it too.
-He's dying to get up and walk. He cruises along furniture and people like a champ and can walk along with a push walker we got for him. It looks really weird to see such a little guy walking across the room. I love it.
-He's on the verge of standing independently. Sometimes he'll let go of whatever he's holding onto and stand on his own for a couple seconds then intentionally lower his little butt down. He also kneels and does a little half kneel, half stand thing.
-He loves to spin around on his bum. He sits on the kitchen floor or bathroom floor and pushes himself around in a circle with his feet
-He shakes his head, "no." He does this a lot when you offer him something to eat and he doesn't want it.
-He reaches for whoever he wants to hold him. This combined with his lack of "stranger danger" made an older lady's whole day when we were at Famous Footwear. She stopped to see him and admire him and he just reached out for her. She grabbed him and held him for a while then went about her shopping. A few minutes later he saw her and came crawling over to her reaching to be picked up. She LOVED it.
-Along with strangers at shoe stores, Jack also LOVES other babies. He can't take his eyes off them when we pass them in the grocery store. He crawls straight over to his buddy, Andrew, in Sunday School as soon as we get there. He loves playing with his older cousins. He thinks he's a big kid like them and tries to get in on the wrestling and horseplay that goes on with six grandsons. This past week he got himself into trouble, though, when he was playing with Carson and Parker in the pantry and ended up getting sat on. :)
-He loves to stick his tongue out.
-He's a tough boy. He likes to play hard and usually has a couple bumps, scrapes, and bruises to show it.
Goofy! Love that face.
He likes to squirm. I'm not sure how his face ended up in focus, but I like this picture a lot.
He's looks like he's sad, but he was just looking at the tag on his ducky
Loves to stick the tongue out
