Nine Month Stats

James had his nine-month check-up yesterday with Dr. Durham, and here are his stats!

Length: 29 inches (76th percentile)

Weight: 18 pounds 11 ounces (21st percentile - which is good, because last time he was in the 17th!)

Head Circumference: 18.9 inches (98th percentile! This is one SMART boy!)

A couple of cute pictures before we went to the doctor -



Since we are planning on moving in about a month or so, this was probably James' last visit with Dr. Durham - which was kind of sad! Dr. Durham is an old family friend and was my pediatrician when I was a baby! (Not to mention all growing up, too!) He's a great doctor and we'll miss him. Here's a picture of me, James and Dr. Durham -


Some things that James has been doing lately -

crawling all over and getting into everything
crawling up the stairs
standing up and cruising
laughing a ton
getting mad when we take a toy away
EXPLORING
falling and getting a few boo-boos from the exploring
eating more and more finger foods
eating crackers and biting into them so cute with his 4 little teeth
bouncing and "dancing" to music
humming
babbling like crazy - many syllables, like da da fa fa ba ba and an occasional something that sounds like a real word!
oh and he says ma ma sometimes when he cries (MA MA!!)
waving bye bye
giving us five

What fun! We just love him more and more every day. He continues to entertain us like crazy and we love just watching him play and explore things. He loves to examine small little objects or electronic devices or screws with his little pointer finger, and you can just see the concentration in his face. Yesterday he stood ALL by himself for a few seconds - I just know he's gonna take off walking one of these days! Something else cute is that today he learned how to turn the cell phone on! He has this old cell phone of ours that he plays with, and today he was playing and turned it on. The lights turned on and he just stared at it, and then started bouncing and squealing! He was so excited! It didn't have a sim card in it, so he couldn't really call anyone, except you can still call 911 on it, so we turned the phone off, just in case. He got mad, and then turned it right back on! He turned it on about four times in a row. What a smart kid :)

Anyway, we just love our little guy and it is just so fascinating watching him grow and learn!