9-Month Check Up

Today was Wyatt's 9-month check up and he did fabulous! He has grown so much since last time he was at the doctor and I couldn't wait to see how big he has gotten. Here are his stats: Height-29inches=74%, Weight-17lbs. 11oz=7%(yes that's a single 7), Head Circuference-45cm=50%.
So as you can read he is still a long and lean baby! Dr. Rose wasn't concerned about his weight given his parents and our family histories. So glad!!

Here are some new things that Wyatt is up to:
-He can now Army crawl and will scoot around to whatever he wants. This is a nice break from all of the rolling he was doing.
-He can stand for quite a period of time whether it's on your lap, hanging onto something, or just standing while he's in his Johnny Jumper or Walker.
-He can now give you a High 5! Mike has been working on this with him so much and he can now do it 90% of the time you ask him.
-He is also saying "dada" a lot. He's not a big gabber but when he does he likes to say that.
-He is still eating 4 7-8 ounce bottles each day and eating oatmeal in the morning with fruit and fruit and veggies in the afternoon and the evening. We have recently started eating wagon wheels and poofs. Don't really know how much he actually eats but he really likes playing with them. We have the green light to start meats so we'll start those as soon as we can get to the store.
-He is able to grab anything and everything. We are working on stacking his blocks but he mostly just likes to knock them down.
-He also has 2 teeth on the bottom and seems to be done with teething for at least a little while!

Next on our list is to finish baby proofing the house before he can crawl everywhere and just keep working on his solids with the introduction of meats! He's growing like a bad weed and getting wiser and funnier every day.

My New Favorite Picture!

Thanks Mom for taking the picture!

Little Glimpse of the Teeth

Here's a really cute pic I took of Wyatt today and you can kinda see his 2 teeth that he is getting. The teeth are the front two on the bottom. Just look for the little white spots!

Shake, Rattle, and Roll

One of Wyatt's favorite toys is a take-along bowl with a lid on it that has one of his linkaroos inside. He has had this toy since he was 4-months old and loves the sound it makes and that he can shake it and hit it like a drum. Well me being the resourceful momma that I am decided to take an old Pepsi bottle, leftover from a visit with my mom, and make it into a big boy rattle. I washed it out and added egg noodles (we were out of just regular macaroni noodles) and put the lid on and now we have his second favorite toy! He loves seeing the noodles move around and has really gotten into shaking it all around. Right now we are working on him shaking it when I sing "Shake your booty" and do a little dance around him. So far he's catching on and likes to laugh at his silly momma dancing around the house. Here are some pics of him getting his shake on. :)

Cooking Up a Storm

Wyatt loves to sit in his highchair and watch Mike and I cook. This has been such a blessing so we can at least get our food made. Now whether we get to eat a hot meal is a completely different story. We've been giving him different kitchen utensils to play with while we are cooking and so far his favorite is the spatula. These spatulas a great ones that my mom got us for Christmas and we love using them and apparently Wyatt loves playing with them too. Here are some pictures of him cooking up a storm while I was making dinner tonight. I swear if you look at them and while I was taking the pictures he was actually trying to stir with the spatula just like we do when we cook! Maybe we have a budding chef in our family. :)

He's got Legs!

I know the original song title is "She" but our boy has got a set of long legs on him! I wonder where he gets it from?! ;) Well my mom got Wyatt this really cute set of overalls and I put them in his closet and kinda forgot about them. That's what happens when you have so many clothes. Well I saw them the other day and decided to put them in Wyatt's bag for him to change into when he gets to Aunt Cheryl's for the day. When I got to Cheryl's that night this is what I saw!Yep, my boy has such long legs that he was wearing high-water pants. I know they go up a little when he's in the carseat but no pants should go up that high. They practically look like shorts on him in the carseat. This outfit is for 6-9 months and it looked big for that size. Guess we are going to have the same problem that I had growing up of finding pants that are long enough but small enough to fit around his waist! This should be fun!!

Teeth

We have teeth! Last week we had a pretty unhappy baby for a couple of days and then a little tiny tooth emerged. It's not the entire tooth just a little bit sticking up but it's definately there. This week we now have another tooth emerging. So now there are two little white teeth on his gum and it looks like we have 2 more next to those coming in next. So far he's been pretty good and just having minor behavior issues. So far we've seen him take whatever is around him and put it to his mouth and bite it while turning red and screaming. We don't know if this is a teething thing or an anger thing. We are really hoping for the first but we aren't holding our breath. Although I wouldn't know where he would have gotten such a temper?! ;) Hopefully we'll have some pictures to show in a couple of days of some big beautiful teeth!