Atticus is 9 1/2 months

Here are some facts about Atticus at 9 1/2 months:

• He claps but now instead of when the bear sings "patty cake", he claps when he is happy about something or is proud of something he did!
• He started standing right at 9 months. He will pull up on something (or someone) and then just let go and stand there. Sometimes, he will even clap while he is standing or play with something while he stands. We are going on probably 7 or 8 seconds tops but he is getting pretty good at it when he tries.
  
• He is still crawling EVERYWHERE!
• The only "words" or really I guess they are called sounds are "dada" "mama" "baba". These are usually repeated over and over and while we act like he is calling us mama and dada, I think they may still be just sounds.
• He has a couple of different smiles lately - he scrunches up his face on one and grins really big on the other. Both are so fun!
  
• He is still in size 3 diapers.
• He is in 9 month clothes but getting close to 12 month clothes. I bought some 12 month sizes this weekend but he is still a tiny bit smaller than them. I just feel like his 9 months are getting too small. I guess he is "in between" sizes.
  
• He was 28 1/2 inches long and 21 lbs at his 9 month appointment.
• He has had 4 ear infections since December and hopefully, while he is starting to get another tiny cold, he won't get another one. If so, his pediatrician wants us to possibly see an ENT just to have them take a look. If this Texas weather would just stay put instead of going back and forth, maybe we could kick these little colds!
• He still has only 4 teeth; 2 top and 2 bottom.
  
• He is getting a full head of hair, though it's still blonde for now. Not sure if it will go lighter or darker, but we don't think it will be red.
• Foods he likes right now: in baby food, he likes sweet potatoes, carrots, all fruits, and LOVES baby yogurt. In regular food, he likes rice, cheerios, bread (Aunt Jill's banana bread and croissants), bananas, puffs, and that's about it. We have tried green beans, pasta, turkey, ground meat, cheese, strawberries, and peaches and he just doesn't love them more than maybe once. And he's just about done with the baby food that has meat in it; such as chicken and rice, turkey and noodle. I know, I know - why would we feed that to him? But, he liked it for awhile!
  
• He is starting to take a sippy cup but doesn't get too excited about it. He would rather drink water from mama's glass. Maybe daycare can train him....
• He loves door stoppers. All but one of our door stoppers is the kind that has a spring (the other is just metal doesn't move). So, he pulls the spring and it goes back and forth and makes noise. We thought this was so cute. Until he started pulling the little white rubber tip off the end and wanting to place it in his mouth. Then, we had to go around the entire house and pull all of the white rubber ends off of the door stoppers. Therefore, the door stoppers just became less useful. haha!
  
• The toys he plays with right now are blocks and stacking toys and anything musical. He loves rides in his wagon, but we are waiting for warmer weather to take him out daily. He still likes Sophie, his hungry caterpillar and is starting to get interested in books! We have two: "You are my cupcake" and "I love you through and through" and he will sit and listen to them while we read. I can't wait to read him books!!

I guess those are his 9 1/2 month updates. It's hard to believe that this time last year we had not even registered for baby items and now he is 9 1/2 months old!

He loves to take a bath and splash and play. He is probably just about to be too big for this blow-up bathtub but it's just so hard to let him loose in the big tub quiet yet....

Crawling everywhere!