PORTER IS 9 MONTHS OLD

Yesterday our little guy turned 9 months and boy is he growing up!! We are just so in love with this baby boy. I can't believe all of the changes that he has experienced in just the past month. First of all, he started crawling. It is incredible how fast he is able to get wherever he wants to go. He also started holding onto ANYTHING and lift himself up to a standing position. He also recently started walking alongside the front of the couch a couple of steps while holding on. Probably his favorite hightlight of the day is bathtime. He just plays and plays and has so much fun. He is getting too big for his bath chair and tries to crawl right off it. It is getting kinda crazy keeping him safe in the bath because he tries and tries to stand up and just wants to move all around in the bath tub. I know one of these days, he is going to bump his head pretty hard. He loves opening and closing drawers and emptying what's inside them. He loves singing songs and his favorites are: 'Intsy wintsy spider' (he tries to do the actions..soooo cute), 'patty cake', and 'If you're happy and you know it clap your hands'. He is so cute when he tries to talk. He still says "HI DAD" so well and very often and it is so cute when he says it. About 4 days ago he said "MAMA" for the first time...FINALLY...YES!! :) It is so much fun listening to him put syllables together. He still isn't liking to eat his cereal very much. We have started making him "bottle shakes" a couple of times a day with the left over cereal (and meat, fruit and veggies) that he didn't finish for his meals. At least now we know that when he doesn't eat well during meal time, he is still getting the nourishment that he needs. He loves finger foods. His favorites are macaroni noodles, bananas, mashed potatoes, bread pieces with jelly, and cut up carrots. It is so adorable watching grab the food with his thumb and index finger in his 'pincer grasp' when he picks up his food. He also loves drinking out of his sippy cup.
We took him in for his 9 month checkup last week (about 6 days before he turned 9 months) and he weighed 18 lbs 5oz (15th%) and was 27 1/2 inches (25%) and his head was 44 (15%). The doctor said that he is reaching all of his milestones very well, and again the doctor couldn't believe how strong he was. Luckily, Porter doesn't have to get any more shots until he is 12 months. HAPPY 9 MONTHS PORTER! We love you more than you will ever know.

To celebrate his 9 month birthday, Porter and I went to 'baby music and story time' at the library in West Jordan. We had such a great time. It was full of lots of fun baby stories and cute songs and puppets. The kids even got their hands stamped with turkey feet. Porter absolutely loved it. It was so much fun to see how incredibly social he was. He went and sat by the other kids and crawled all around looking at everything, not shy at all. He even started clapping his hands during one of the songs. It was so cute to watch.