9 Months

9 months means almost a year. Hmmm. I know there must be many new things Mr. Cap is up to this month. I am going to try to hit a few. Unfortunately, the main thing I think about this month is him being sick and not sleeping. I will come back to that though.

- we pretty much give him a little of what we are eating these days with some obvious 'sweet' exceptions. as good as I think we eat, we might have to get a little better since he wants what we are having.

- he pretty much stopped eating for over 2 weeks may be even 3 weeks this month. that was not stressful at all. hardly nursed, hardly ate food.

- no new teeth

- loves to point with his right hand and tilts his head like he is going to wink at you

- says bye bye and hi a lot

- pulls up on everything and walk from object to object

-we don't think he will ever crawl on all floors. bryce thinks it's because of our hardwood floors. he has always been way more into standing than sitting, and now walking to crawling.

- still loves to open and close everything, but now interested to what's inside.

- anything with a rhythm he will move his body like he's dancing or even sing to, even the sound of the breast pump going.

- likes to ride on his dad's shoulders

- likes to be in the bath but will only stand not sit

- crawls as fast as he can to the top of the slide then goes down on his belly laughing all the way down! must get a video of this one!

- knows his name, mostly by El Cap, not Cap

- says momma, but only in an extremely whiney kind of way

- still blue eyes and strawberry blonde looking hair

- doing great with EC'ing when he's NOT sick!

- starting crying again before naps, not fun

- he also went through a 4 day in a roll spell of waking up in the middle of the night crying. this was before he was sick. the first night i picked him up immediately because of the way we was crying. the second night, we did it again. 3rd and 4th night we didn't and prayed over the room and him before the 5th night. Never woke up after that until he got sick.

- still smiley, but we have had lots of tears this month

- definitely starting to test us in his own little way and cries when he doesn't get what he wants

- also cries at almost EVERY diaper change, has actually done this for at least 4 months. I can't believe he is still doing it though. we don't let him crawl all over the place during diaper changes even though that is what he is screaming about. It might seem silly to some, but it is in these little things that he is testing us to see who is in control of the situation. If we give in now, and let him roam during the diapering process just so he will stop crying and only put it on when he is ready, then we will give into the much bigger life lessons to come. I just don't get what the big deal is. He also screams the entire time he is going to the bathroom on the pot, but not if he goes in his diaper.

- 19.14 lbs

- can't find my sheet to tell you his height and head

So there are some of the many things he is up to right now. He got sick with fever and diarrhea in the middle of the month. On the fourth day I thought he was getting better than it turned into some terrible drainage snot thing. He was having trouble breathing which made it very hard to sleep. When he would try to nurse he would start gagging and have trouble getting milk out because of his symptoms. It was awful! He cried if you just looked at him wrong. He moaned through the night. We finally, after over 8 months, let him sleep with us half way through the night. He was just so miserable. A couple of night I ended up making a pallet on the floor and sleeping with him there so that we could all get a little more sleep. He still isn't back to sleeping through the night even though he is feeling a lot better. He is eating more than he ever has. I think he making up for the 3 weeks with barely any food. To put it in prospective, at 7 months he weighed 20 1/2 pounds and 2 months later he weighed in at 19.14. I knew he was loosing weight I could tell in several ways. The doctor wasn't worried at all. Doesn't really care if he wasn't eating either. The lactation consultants on the other hand were amazed he has only nursed 4 times a day off of 1 side since he was about 10 weeks old. They told me he needs about 32oz a day while the doctor said 16oz. So who knows. We are hoping he starts sleeping better soon because unless your sick your just not getting tata's or us in the middle of the night. Sounds cruel, but helping someone learn how to sleep on their own and get a goods night rest in the long run is too important!

Well, sorry this is late and I haven't posted in awhile. We have been very exhausted this month. Hoping for a better 10 month post!!!! Enjoy the pics, he wasn't very cooperative on these.

my dad's favorite christmas moose

they sent to us, mostly cap:)

like i said, he was a little grumpy!

I have downloaded bunches of pics so more post coming up soon!