Dylan had his 9 month appointment last week and it went great! He continues to grow like a little weed: tall and thin, just like mom and dad :-)
Height: 30.25in (95%)
Weight: 18lbs 14oz (22%)
Head: 45.75cm (60%)
He's hitting all the major milestones... well almost all the milestones. He's not really into crawling... forward that is. He's mastered the backward "scootch", but hasn't figured out the whole moving forward thing yet. Crawling is for babies anyway. He'd much rather walk. And man does he walk... he holds onto your hands and walks all over the house. Literally all over- all day, every day. He loves to go explore and look out the windows, check on the dogs, just walk in circles... whatever floats his boat! Have you ever seen the movie Weekend at Bernies? He walks exactly like that. Hips forward. Head back. Doing a crazy head "bob" with a silly little grin on his face- it's so cute!! (BTW- Doctor isn't worried at all that he isn't crawling yet. She said lots of babies are going straight to walking these days. As long as he can move both sides of his body and is somewhat "coordinated" he's fine.)
Teething is going ok, especially compared to some of the nightmare stories I've heard from other moms. He's got 1.5 teeth now! The 2nd tooth is only half way out so that's why it only gets partial credit. He waking up now in the middle of the night a little (he had been sleeping through the consistently since 4 months) and I think it's due to teething pain. Usually it just takes a bottle and a little love and he goes right back down. We're hoping the waking up in the night thing doesn't last much longer though.
Other updates- He's standing on his own really well and is almost pulling himself up! He loves playing with his wooden blocks and "playing the drums" with pots, pans and a wooden spoon. No new words yet, he's still just saying "mama" and "dada" (starting to associate with the right person) and babbling up a storm. He did just learn to wave "hello" and "good-bye/nite-nite". He also just learned to shake his head "no" when he doesn't want something (not sure if that is a good thing). He's also now drinking out of a sippy cup on his own! Such a big boy!!
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Caroline never crawled either. If I held her hands she would walk everywhere too! Wore me out! I loved it when she could finally walk by herself.
The girls didn't crawl until around 10-11 months... and they turned out just fine... although they DO drop l-m-n-o out of the alphabet... **giggles** Chasing a crawler or a walker is a lot more work, so enjoy the 'non-crawling' as long as you can, momma. Miss you!
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