Milestone Update

I keep a calendar in Carter's room that I use to record his milestones. I didn't even attempt to do a baby book this time because I rarely filled Lexie's out. Plus, I use the blog to keep up with most things. Well, the calendar for August was pretty empty, but Carter sure made up for it in September.

--As far as food goes, he LOVES it!! He is pretty much done with baby food. He wants the real thing. I have had to get pretty creative because his appetite is ready for a lot more than his digestive system is. Right now his favorites are soy yogurt (Thanks for telling me about it Angie), spaghetti, and grilled (soy) cheese sandwiches. If you remember from one of my previous posts, Carter loved yogurt. Well his tummy hurts if I have dairy, so you can imagine what happened when he got it first hand. Luckily my sister told me about the O Soy yogurt, so Carter can still have his yogurt. (It has a small amount of dairy because of the cultures, but it doesn't seem to hurt him.)

--He has started doing a cheesy smile. He closes his eyes, scrunches his nose, and smiles with a quite mischievous look. It is so cute.

-- He now has 2 teeth. He got them just a couple of days apart, no wonder he was so cranky!

--He has been able to get around by inch worming for a few weeks, but a couple of days ago he started the traditional crawl. Luckily he is still pretty slow.

--Last night he pulled up in the bath tub. He tries to pull up all over the place, and if he has a hold of our fingers he can pull up easily to the standing position. He can stand for a couple of seconds. He wants to walk everywhere, unfortunately he doesn't know he can't walk yet. He is getting pretty dangerous. He wants to stand all of the time (holding on to something), and he gets very angry if you try make him sit down.

I know in most of my pictures he is only wearing a T-shirt and diaper, but I really do put pants on him.

-- He climbs all over everything!! (Especially mommy and daddy)

--He has definitely learned how to throw a fit. If he doesn't like something, you'll know it!!

--Separation anxiety has started... Fabulous! I can't get anything done. He wants me to sit next to him or hold him all of the time. He is fine if Monte holds him and they walk out of the room, but if he sees me walk away then all heck breaks loose.

--He loves the trash truck!! On Wednesday mornings we go out front so he can watch the trash truck. He is in awe. After the truck picks up and dumps the container, he will start clapping. "Yay for picking up trash!" If Monte is holding him and he hears the trash truck, he will practically break his neck trying to find it. It really is funny.

--We go to story time at the library. Carter loves books. When he is happy about something, he will definitely let you know. A few weeks ago when we went, when the lady finished the story Carter started clapping. Then he took it one step further, he started yelling "WOO WOO" while he was clapping. It was so funny. There's nothing like positive feedback. The librarian loved it.

He also likes to swing at the park. He has to have that blanket wrapped around him though. If I put him in without the blanket he cries. I think he feels a little too free without it; he wants to be secured tightly.

-- I don't have any official stats on weight and height. His 9 month check up is the second week of October. Unofficially he is still a little over 17 pounds and around 26 inches.

Happy Birthday Uncle Dan!

My brother's birthday was last week. We had a party for him last weekend. Don't you just love his girly cake. His kids picked it out for him as a joke because he is always harassing them (in a fun way). After he blew out the candles they surprised him with the real one. It was much more manly.

Carter checking out Uncle Dan.