9 months ago...

Wow...9 months. Noah turns 9 months today and it seems crazy to me that the same amount of time it took to grow him in my tummy, has passed since he's been born. 9 months ago we were headed to the hospital so excited and nervous to meet our precious baby boy.......actually it was 9 months and 2 days ago...he was a stubborn little boy who wasn't ready to come out yet so it took almost 2 days in the hospital before he was born. But he was so worth the wait! Isn't it amazing that in the first 9 months he grew from nothing to a 6 pound, 12 ounce bundle of joy who was too small to fit into a newborn size outfit...

and in the next 9 months he has now grown to a 20 pound, 8 ounce, red-headed bundle of energy who can wear 12-month clothes? Isn't it amazing what God (and lots of jars of mushed up Chicken Noodle dinners) can do?

(Thanks again to Janna for this cute little outfit she got him)

He's so much fun and into everything these days. He just got his 5th tooth this past week! He has 3 on the top and 2 on the bottom, so he'll be ready to eat steak soon which will make his dad happy. ; ) He loves eating Puffs and Cheerios and any other little snack that he can sucker someone into giving him. We're eating the Stage 3 foods now and he loves most of them, except for anything with big chunks in it. That makes him gag like nothing you've ever seen...it's the funniest thing. I think he probably gets that from his dad...Jeff doesn't like certain foods just because "he doesn't like the texture". Strange, I know. He's also the fastest crawler in the tri-state area. I swear, he could probably win a crawling contest if there were one he could enter. I think my brother won a crawling contest when he was a baby so maybe that runs in the family too. And we laugh every time he takes off crawling because he's just so funny to watch.

He pulls up on everything and has started to try to let go and almost balance for a second before falling. This leads to lots of bumps and bruises but he's a tough guy and doesn't cry much at all when he gets hurt. I think he'll be walking within the next month, which will change life as we know it forever.

He sleeps every night from around 7 until 7 or 8 in the morning. I love watching him on the monitor because he crawls and sits up sometimes in his sleep. It's very funny to watch. He's not much of a napper though. We're doing good to get him to take an hour nap in the morning and maybe 30-45 minutes in the afternoon. But I don't complain because he sleeps so well at night. He LOVES to listen to his daddy play the guitar. If Jeff is just sitting around playing music, Noah will stand up in front of him and dance and smile and be entertained for such a long time. He talks a lot...although I don't think he's actually said any real words that he really knew he was saying. He "hisses" all the time and it's so funny. Sometimes it sounds like "shhh" and sometimes like "yessss". He loves making us laugh and he's quite the entertainer. His personality has really started showing lately and I think he's going to be a clown....

And he's got his 4th ear infection right now, which breaks my heart because I hate for him to be sick. But hopefully he'll be over it soon and back to his old self. We just love this little guy so much and can't believe he's 9 months already. He's growing before our eyes and will be turning 1 before we know it (yikes!). I can't wait to see what he's doing then....if I had my guess though, I'd say he'll still be stealing my heart with his sweet little smiles and probably getting into more trouble than I can even imagine right now. I can't wait!!