Grayson: 9 months

This month went as quickly and was filled as fully as the ones before it.  Our little boy is a happy, sweet and busy little bee and I love him to pieces.

Grayson is:

• Scooting like lightning and making more effort every day to get moving on his hands and knees.
• Not pulling himself up on anything yet or close to standing unassisted.
• Easily switching from sitting to crawling.
• Back to three naps a day once his reflux was under control again, usually an hour in the morning and evening and around 2 hours in the afternoon.
• Stretching his schedule a tad, able now to stay up until 7 or 7:30pm and wake around 7am.
• Still refusing any food off a spoon.  He will now pick up cheerios and put them in his mouth, he will sometimes gum them but appears to then spit them all out and not actually swallow any.  Thankfully though he has yet to show symptoms of reflux from those.  He's also tried puffs, peas and bananas but wasn't a fan of any of those finger foods and was not at all interested in the mesh bag baby feeder.
• On the other hand he WILL eat leaves, paper, cardboard, magazines, wood...
• He is showing signs most days of being unsatisfied with the amount of calories he's getting from just breast milk and I've had to start pumping extra to meet his demand.  At his appointment next week we'll discuss other ways to fill his belly. 
• Sleeping through the night but still breast feeding around 10pm.  Though I look forward to being able to drop this feeding, for now he still needs those extra calories.
• Will copy clapping and patting in an uncoordinated but exuberant fashion and can roll a ball back and forth fairly well.
• Still loves being startled and tickled, playing peekaboo, and hide and seek.
• Into everything and much prefers all of Ava's toys to his own.
• Still very laid back and content, relatively quiet, flexible and easy going.
• Taking baths with Ava in the tub now that he's sitting and stable.
• Does well being dropped off at the church nursery and has behaved himself for two stranger-babysitters since we moved.
• LOVED his first swing ride!
• Still no teeth though we are beginning to teethe again I think.
• Had his first ear infection and antibiotic regimen which did not go well and ended early with a prescription diaper cream and probiotic.
• Will will have a weigh-in next week but he is in size 3 diapers and wearing size 12 and 12-18 mos.