9 Months

Logan is such a little stud!  I love his cute little smiling face. When I take these month photos it's so fun trying to decide which of his current outfits or pajamas is my favorite.  Sometimes I can't pick just one, and then I have an even harder time picking which picture to use.  It's like when magazine's have different cover photos - I feel like I should make different options for his month photo cause I can't narrow it down.

He's really a very happy baby.  He's so smiley in the mornings when I get him from his crib.  He loves playing with Paige and Lucas and giggles when they chase and tickle him.  He plays on his own really well too, which is nice.  He's still such a finicky nurser, but it bothers me more than it does him.  He has gotten on a really good nap schedule which I'm really happy about.  He still doesn't sleep through the night, but he wakes up once to eat and goes right back to sleep, which is a whole lot easier for me than listening to him cry it out 2-3 times in the middle of the night.  I think maybe he's a bad eater during the day so he has to make up for it in the middle of the night.  Oh well. I feel like things go much more smoothly with Logan when I don't stress out about what I think he should be doing.  If I just let him do his thing he's so much happier.

He is SO close to walking.  He loves to walk around while I'm holding his hands, or holding on to whatever he can.  He walks with the Mater, the shopping cart, Paige's tricycle, the bathroom step stool - yesterday he was trying to walk with one of the kitchen chairs and it just wasn't moving as fast as he wanted but he was grunting and pushing so hard, he was determined!  He will stand really well without holding on to anything for long stretches of time now, he has good balance.

He's so proud of himself here.  He has taken steps lots of times before, but he just doesn't trust himself yet so he takes steps and then sits down, or just sits down right away and won't even try.  Last Sunday he was walking a bunch and showing off for my parents, and every time since then that I've tried to get it on camera, he refuses to perform. I'm thinking he'll be walking more than just a few steps in another week.  In the mean time he can just keep using whatever he can find to push, or hold onto my hands, which is his preference.


Logan's balance is a little better now, but when we took this video, if ever he would lose his grip on one of my hands, he would just fall like that. Silly baby. Also when he first started walking around with the Mater, he wasn't very good at steering so he would be super happy pushing in a straight line, but as soon as he got stuck he would scream.  I feel a little bad watching this video and hearing us all laughing at him, but we couldn't help it, it's just too funny!



Logan also really loves climbing up the slide.  He has gotten pretty good.  He climbs up to the top and then sits there and waits for me to help him slide down.  Sometimes he'll climb up there when I'm not watching and then I'll look over and he's just sitting there waiting patiently.  He's so silly.

We are having so much fun with this little guy.