9 Months

3/4 of a year...that's how old my baby is today! We had to cheat and take this picture a couple of days early, in his Easter outfit, since we're now in Texas visiting my family. What's good is that Dylan now knows that his crib is where he goes to sleep. The bad part of that is that he got upset when we put him in the crib for the picture since he was not ready for a nap! So, this is the best shot we could get before he started crying.

Dylan at 9 Months

We've had a really eventful month of developments with our cute little guy. He's keeping us (and the kitties) on our toes with his crawling. He's fast and seems to have an unending supply of energy. Every day he continues to explore something new inside and outside the house. On Easter Day, we even let him loose on the ground outside for the first time. He really enjoyed pulling the grass and getting his hands and knees dirty.

At One With Nature

Less than two weeks after he started to crawl, he pulled up to standing. He's perfected that and has even "cruised" (moved a couple of steps while holding onto furniture) just a little bit. That's opened up another level of exploration in the house to him (and is leaving less places for the cats to sleep peacefully).

He is a really great eater and has happily taken just about everything we've given to him. During this last month, we have given him a lot more actual solid foods that he can feed himself (as opposed to the baby food mush). Among his favorites are scrambled eggs, grapes and broccoli. On March 26th, the tooth we've been waiting for finally broke through the gums. 3 more will be coming soon....at least that's the way it looks. So, he'll have help shortly in eating all of these new foods.

His other big new tricks are clapping and waving. He's mostly been doing them randomly (and often) but it seems that he's finally starting to understand that when his hand waves, people tend to wave back.

We will definitely have to start finding more social outlets for him. Lately, every time he sees another kid, he giggles. I guess he's started to tire of only seeing our old faces everyday and finds a lot of amusement in people more his size. It's really cute.

That little personality is getting more and more pronounced daily. It's fun to watch!