Nine Months!!!

Well, Graham just turned the big .750 (point seven-five-o) and we have seen a lot more crazy changes in this kid. First the stats:

Graham at .0750 decades of age:

Weight: 25 lbs, 5 oz. (95th percentile)
Length: 30" (95th percentile)
Coconut Circumference: 18" (only 90th percentile)


He has graduated from rolling to his destinations of choice (no fat jokes, Tim!).He has now learned to crawl army crawl along at a pretty good pace. He uses his right arm to move and reaches with his left arm. He doesn't quite get up on his knees yet, but kind of pushes off with his toes. He really thinks he is quite funny when we put him down in our room, he instantly crawls straight to the mirror where he laughs and kisses the mirror, then he moves to the door stopper, which we have had to super glue the ends on because they have ended up in his mouth more than once. He loves making the "boing-boing" sound and it easily entertains him longer than any of his toys. He focuses all of his crawling energy towards getting to door stoppers, air vents, remote controls, phones, and basically anything else that falls on the floor or is within baby-arm's reach. He does a pretty good job of getting into trouble before we notice where he is at.

Graham is constantly showing us how smart and how good of a problem solver he is. He kept pulling the door stop off the wall, muttering something about it being the last piece in his time machine (probably the milk talking...he has been hitting the bottle pretty hard lately).


Graham after one too many bottles.




Anyway, we ended up taking the stopper off the wall temporarily and we put him on the floor to play. Like always, he crawled to the doorstop and reached out to make its wonderful jew's-harp-quality 'music' but as soon as he noticed it was gone, he set out looking for a good substitute. He crawled right towards the bathroom and pulled the door away from the wall where he knew there would be another one. It was pretty amazing to see his little brain working.

He also picked up shaking his head "no" seemingly out of nowhere. We don't even know where he picked it up since we have joined a hippie commune shortly after he was born and now believe that restrictions and rules really dampen our free-spirit mood, man. Whenever he is full or tired of a certain food and we try to give him something, he just shakes his head with a big cheesy grin.

Unfortunately for us (who am I kidding, it's really 99% Julia) is that Graham is getting really hard to put down at night. Most nights he fights Julia for a while and just cries in bed until she goes and gets him and after an hour or so, he finally drifts off. He is still napping twice a day most days and is very easy to put down during the day.

He is wearing 18 months and 24 months stuff for a while now. This kid makes a mockery of most onesies and almost never eats baby food anymore, just cheerios, bananas, and bread. The doctor says he will thin out once he starts running around and crawling more, but Graham is the human vacuum cleaner and he seems to find food out of nowhere. I am constantly saying things like, "Strange, we haven't had bacon since last thursday, where did Graham find some?" :)

Graham is growing up way too fast. Before we know it, he will be taking his first steps or taking apart his first expensive electronic device and then hiding the evidence after horribly failing at putting it back together. We love seeing him grow and change, but we are missing his cuddly and immobile stage right about now. We miss the days where he would cuddle with us and not feel the need to crawl around and grab every single thing off the floor within seconds of being down.

With that, we would like to announce that we are having a baby!

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In a couple years or so! Not going through all this again for a while, suckers!


We will be sure to get some more pictures and videos of Graham being awesome as soon as we get back from our family reunion!