9 Months

The 9th month has us moving right along, quite literally.  Hugh is extremely difficult to photograph.  (My lil point and shoot camera doesn't help the cause as it takes too long to actually take the picture.)  Hugh wants to move and shake his way through every picture which makes the shots with a flash really bright and shiny and the shots without the flash all blurry.  But I am not giving up on monthly legging shots.

This month Hughie:
-crawls fast and furious
-pulls to a stand and doesn't know how to sit down
-claps
-attempts "Sooooo big"
-Still takes 2 naps/day, is asleep around 7 pm and up by 7 am
-eats 3 meals each day and added dry toast and cut up noodles to his diet
-says "uh oh" and "ohhhhh"
-also makes mamama, dadada and nananana noises
-continues to cry if I walk through the room without picking him up
-pulls at cords and turns around to smirk at you when you say "no touch"

 
He is feisty and lovable.  Determined and low key.  Scheduled and unpredictable. Smiley but teething.  Baby soft but a sticky mess.  Quiet as a mouse and louder than all of us combined.  Stubborn and selfish but caring and aware. 



 Hugh is not:
-sleeping through the night
-completely done nursing
-walking
-saying mama to me
-contained easily (he no longer wants to sit in the exosaucer, his "runner" or his jumperoo in the doorway)
-afraid of dogs

I couldn't get a better tush shot

Statistically Hughie is

30.25 inches which puts him at greater than the 100%ile (He's tall!)
19 lbs 2.5 oz which puts him at the 41st %ile for weight
And his head is right around the 75th%ile

Prettttty darn perfect Mr. Hugh.  You're a keeper.