9 Months! (February 11th, 2011)

 

Me at Nine Months!!

I have had an amazing nine months!! Can you believe that from last month to this month I have actually started to try to balance myself without any help? I'm trying to stand and walk!

I am able to say "mama" and say it to my mom... which she loves. I crawl like a champ (it's so easy) and now I love to stand and my favorite is when mom tries to walk with me. I love getting from one place to another so quickly! I know when mom says, "No" and I don't like it. I usually start to cry when she has to redirect me.

Here are some of the things that I could have experienced in the 8th month (from What to Expect the First Year):

• It says that I will develop his sense of humor and will laugh a lot
• I could string together vowels and consonants and say "ma-ma" or "da-da"
• I will start to understand what "no" means and most likely not like it
• Bear some weight on legs when held upright
• Feed self a cracker
• Rake with fingers an object and pick it up in fist
• Turn in the direction of a voice
• Look for a dropped item
• Pass a cube/object from one hand to the other
• Stand holding on to someone or something
• Object if you try to take a toy away
• Work to get a toy that's out of reach
• Play peekaboo
• Get into sitting position from stomach
• Creep or craw
• Pull up to standing position from sitting
• Pick up tiny objects with any part of thumb and finger
• Play patty-cake or wave bye-bye
• Walk holding onto furniture-- cruise
• Stand alone momentarily
• Start to "baby-sign"
• Stand up while in my crib
• Drink from a cup independently
• Stand alone well
• Play ball by rolling a ball back and forth
• Eating less and less formula
• Eating three meals a day by 9 months
• Aware of strangers and fearful of them
• Attachment to security items 
  As you can see, there's a lot listed there and I accomplished almost all of them! I'm not signing back to mom yet (but it'll be soon), I can't stand alone well, and I'm not attached to security items. I also don't play peekaboo. But the rest of the things I'm pretty much doing!
   
  Here's what the book says I'll be doing throughout the ninth month:
  • Stand holding onto someone or something
  • Pull up to standing position from sitting
  • Object if a toy is taken away
  • Say "mama" or "dada" indiscriminately
  • Play peekaboo
  • Exchange back-and-forth gestures
  • Get into sitting position from stomach
  • Play patty-cake (claping hands) or wave bye-bye
  • Pick up tiny objects with thumb and first finger
  • Walk holding onto furniture (cruise)
  • Understand "No" (but not always obey)
  • Stand alone momentairly
  • Point to something to get my needs met
  • Say "mama" or "dada" discrimintely
  • Indicate my wants in ways other than crying
  • Play ball by rolling a ball to someone
  • Drink from a cup independently
  • Stand alone well
  • Use immature jargoning (gibberish that sounds like a foreign language)
  • Say one word other than "mama" or "dada"
  • Respond to one-step command with gestures ("Give that to me" with hand out)
  • Walk well
  • Explore and play with my food while eating at mealtime
  • Express rhythm in some way (rocking, bouncing, rolling, dancing)
  • Biting others (maybe... not all babies bite)
  • Develop new fears
  • Start to exert my independence and need some form of discipline

  Sounds like it's going to be a fun month!!
   
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   See you on Tuesday!
  :)
  Gus