9 months

Wow, 9 months, that is 3/4 of a year, I can't believe time has gone so fast. This weekend to celebrate we went to the aquarium and beach down at Fort Fisher, and we went out for seafood with some friends. We had a great time! Jack was very interested in the aquarium and loved all the fish, he took a nap at the beach and had a good time at dinner and even ate some Red Snapper.

Here are daddy and Jack with the big fish

The Alligators



Jack and an Atlantic sea turtle, the sea turtle was 1 year old and soon to be released into the wild
I love this picture



My favorite exhibit, can you see the sea horses?

Jack and I at the beach

We LOVE this picture of Jack being surprised :)

Jack in his big boy car seat.

9 months old!

So this month Jack has gotten alot of personality, he has really been showing us how happy he is and he lets us know when he wants something.

He talks all the time now! He has his own language and we think it occassionally includes bad words...or at least angry words, the only time he makes them is involving food :) Usually when he wants more of it.

He loves to eat. He eats anything we put in front of him. This month we have started many new foods. Salmon, red snapper, chicken, turkey, beans, tomatoe, cheese, taco meat, bread, crackers. He has also perfected feeding himself. He can pick up even small things and get them to his mouth, he doesn't really like to feed himself mushy things like banana. Up to this month we have been feeding him dinner at night and otherwise he has just been nursing usually at 4-5 am, 8-9, 12-1, 5, and before bed. But now I am going to start feeding him twice a day consistently. He drinks water out of his sippy cup or from a straw, we have given his prune juice, to help deal with constipation issues that he has. We have to be very careful with what Jack eats to make sure he doesn't get too constipated, he went almost 5 days this month without going, so I have been very careful since then.

Look how big he is!

We have an appointment on the 10th to see what his weight and height are. We think that he weighs around 23-24 pounds and he has really gotten taller this month, but I have no idea how tall.

He is still sleeping from 8pm to about 5 usually, sometimes only till 3:30, but then he goes back to sleep until 8 or 9. I am really ready to get rid of the middle of the night feeding, but he always just eats and then goes back to sleep, so I am going to try the higher calorie intake during the day with the extra feeding to see if that helps with the sleep. Some weeks he sleeps well for multiple nights in a row, there doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason to why he does or doesn't sleep well. Napping has improved, he usually takes one good nap 1-2 hours and one shorter nap about 45 min. We are down to just 2 naps.

Isn't he so cute, here he is saying hey guys, look how cute I am. He still loves to play. He loves his toys, especially things that you can put things in and out of and makes noise. He is loving books too, soft books, plastic books, and board books. He is doing well sitting in the bath like a big boy.

He is wearing all 12-18 month clothes. His hair is rally coming in and comes over his ears a little bit, it is brown with a little red. His eyes are turning a green/hazel color. He has a great smile! He now has 7 teeth, with 3 more on the way.

Movement wise he isn't crawling yet, he still scoots on his bottom. It takes great interest in something to get him to scoot towards it.

He has also become a belly sleeper. He pretty much always sleeps that way.


Autie Carrie came by for a few days this week. We had a good time together just hanging out and seeing the Loar family.

Hope you have enjoyed our 9 month update, only a few more until we hit 1 year!