8-9 Months Old
Despite our best efforts, Anders just keeps getting older. He turned 9 months in June, but since we missed posting at 8 months, lets start with those milestones first.
8th Month Milestones:
Solid foods. We started with rice cereal, then added avocado, banana and sweet potato in sequence, waiting the recommended 4 days in between each new food to isolate allergies or other adverse reactions.
The beginnings of teeth.
"Loud" noises. Anders has started to experiment with making "loud" yelling-type sounds. They're still not very loud compared with some other kids we've seen. This started shortly after returning from our trip to visit his cousins in NJ. Coincidence?
Jumping. We got a free-standing "jumparoo" from our friends Stef & Serg quite a while ago, but it was only recently when he figured out how to actually jump in it. (This is the same jumparoo that we brought to Taryn and David's wedding.) Now we can't get him to stop! He just wants to jump all of the time, whether he is in the jumparoo or not.
Anders's hair is long and think enough now that the swirl at his cowlick stands up.
Twirling. We don't know where he got this from, but he is obsessed with twirling things, and he always does it the same way. More often than not, his mini-spatula is the object being twirled (which, by the way, makes a great teething tool!) This is a bit easier to see than it is to explain.
9th Month Milestones:
Teeth! 2 bottom teeth have arrived.
Sitting up. Anders hasn't yet expressed much interest in moving around yet, and that's just fine with us. He balances himself well enough to stay sitting in one place for long periods of time, though he hasn't yet figured out how to go from supine to sitting without help.
Anders has taken to giving Mom kisses, which basically consist of his open mouth somewhere on Corinne's face.
His vocalizing skills have expanded quite a bit, as evidenced in his conversations with Zak and Leif.
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