Category: Milestones

9 Month Check up

You got your flu shot today, so you’ll be under the weather this weekend. And you just keep on growing!

  • Height:  90% (getting taller and taller)
  • Weight: 10% (you’re still a skinny little guy)
  • Head Circumference:  97% (whoo hooo!)

So apparently you’re more likely to play basketball and be in the chess club than to be stealing car stereos and being an MMA fighter. But one never knows.

Wherein Campbell composes a song for mommy, albeit, brief

For weeks we’ve been trying to get you to say “momma” or “daddy” or just to use those phonemes you keep spouting out. Of course, the minute mommy puts you into your little foam chair in front of your toy piano and heads out to the store, you come up with this:

Leaps and Bounds

Today mommy got your new bath seat. No more sink baths for you! You’ve officially graduated to the tub.

Also, she got you a new “toy”; a silicon chew stick to help ease your gums. You loved it. In fact, you were quite vocal about it, but as always, by the time I got to the camera, you toned it down a bit. Still, here in bright color, you and your stick:

Squeaking, Chomping & Logging On

Daddy was a little busy this week, so it was hard to get the time to post all the things you’ve done; you’ve tried to crawl, you’ve started making some pretty funny noises (we call it the “Christopher Walken”, where say something like “oh wowowow”), you took your first front facing stroller ride (and loved it) and you’ve really struggled through your teething like a champ.

Here are some videos to catch up the grandmothers and give a little taste of the funny, funny guy you’re becoming:

Today we were making fun of Puddy ignoring a squirrel JUST outside the window. You just ignored both of them and played with your rattle. Well, that and made some adorable squeaking noises.

You’ve also started holding your own bottle, but for some reason, you’ve decided that shoving it as far into your mouth as possible is the best solution to getting the milk into your mouth. (This angle looks like you’re drinking air, but it’s just the camera angle, I assure you).

And as requested, here you are playing on the computer. Yes, at 8 months old, you’re enamored with a site called Kneebouncers. It requires very little from you in the way of input (you simply need to hit any key), but you have figured out the “smash = reward” ratio and get quite excited when we play on that site. Your favorite activity (documented here) is the one with the loud vehicles. Chalk it up to being a city baby, I guess. Funniest part to me? When you start to imitate the noises you’re hearing.

TEETH!

After a few days of trying to get a shot of those tiny, pearly whites we finally got one today outside the Large Cats house at the Como Zoo, with our old Chicago pals, John Weaver and Cara Grib (and their son Jack).

You might have to zoom in to see them, but they're there.

Here you are, displaying all the hard work you went through these past few weeks chewing on everything you got your hands on.

Milestone after Milestone

You had your 8th month birthday on July 20th. You’ve not hit every milestone so far (the sitting up thing is still a little tough for you), but you’ve given us some pretty good ones.

This week you said “Ma”, very deliberately. Whether you associate it with your mother yet or not, we don’t know, but when I say “M”, you watch and delightfully repeat my consonant.

Also, your tiny front, left tooth has crested the gum. Today, your mother felt what she thinks is it’s sidekick. It’s been hard to get a pic, what with your tongue wagging and exploring the new bits in your mouth.

We did, however, get a shot today of your first time on a park swing. You didn’t swing more than a couple of inches back and forth (blame your overprotective daddy if you must), but you seemed very much to enjoy it.

Wheeeeeeeee!
"Hey, that looks pretty far down there"