Nine months!

Pate, you are nine months old now! You are such a joy! I absolutely LOVE this age! You are old enough to interact more and more and it's so much fun.  You have learned so many things lately. You can clap, you can "praise the Lord" by raising both hands, you have created your own sign for milk by smacking your lips! We are working on other signs, too. You love anything with wheels and all balls. You will chase your green ball all around the room.  You weigh about 23 pounds. You wear a size 4 diaper and size 12 month clothes mostly. You are standing up all the time and holding on to cruise down the couch and around the furniture. You have a little trick to get around really quick...you find something to slide along the floor with your hands so you don't even have to lift them to crawl....so funny. Your hair is super long! Someone at CVS said you look like Bubba Watson the other day. It is a hot mess most of the time! ha! You have gotten in one tooth on the bottom left and the other on the bottom is about to come through. You've done a little bit better the past two weeks getting up at night. You will sleep until about 4-4:30 now and then go back to sleep until 8 or 9 so I think that's good. You love your sissy so so much and get just so excited when we got to wake her up in the morning! You will say "da da" sometimes and sometimes "bye" but that's about it. You are into absolutely e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g!!!!!! I have to watch you all the time to make sure you don't find something and get it in your mouth. And you are so so fast! You've started to throw a little fit when we do something you don't want to do like change your diaper or get you dressed or get in the car seat or take away something you can't have. You will arch your back and cry. Not sweet, Pate. You are eating good again. You had a sore throat virus this month but are back to normal now. You are eating little pieces of banana, plums, bread, green beans, rice plus all the baby foods and breastmilk. I love you so much and am so blessed to be your Mama! (Starting to plan your 1st birthday, too!)