Food & Teeth

Cheeser
Walking with dad

Eli actually ate some food today without acting like it was poison and gagging. Hooray! We fed him some of our dinner--rice, beans, tortilla bits, and then some applesauce. I also saw his two top teeth coming in today. I guess that would explain why he has been cranky when he wakes up from his naps. Usually he is all smiles, but yesterday and today he cried and didn't want me to put him down. We are glad that mystery is solved.

Trapped

Lately Eli has loved playing with buckles, like those on his high chair, car seat, stroller, etc. The other day he was playing with those on his car seat and I was fixing dinner. Well, I heard the usual "playing noise", then silence, then Eli crying. And when I found him like this, I couldn't help but laugh and take a picture. He looked like a turtle with a big shell.

Eli has also started playing the piano. He just pulled himself up there one day and started playing on the keys. He must have figured out from watching me that if he could get up there he could make some noise.

Sunday Pics

We had some fun taking pics of Eli on Sunday. I got one of him after a nap in his crib. When I opened the door he was standing there waiting for me--just like usual. :) Oh, and a funny story about Eli and Kaelub. The other day Kaelub put Eli down for his nap and then shaved his head. When Eli woke up and Kaelub went in to get him out of his crib, Eli started screaming. Poor little guy didn't recognize dad without his hair. :( It took him about an hour to warm up to Kaelub and realize it was still dad.

9 Months

So after an eventful few weeks which included our computer crashing, trying to get all pictures & videos off the hard-drive, paying way too much to have Geek Squad burn us a DVD of them & finding out the DVD was actually blank when I went to view them, getting them to burn us a second DVD that actually had our pictures & video on it, and finally ending up having to buy a new computer, I decided my blog is really the most I do as far a journaling and I was falling way behind. I know it's only been a few weeks, but Eli does so many things I want to remember down the road and this is the best way for me to do that. Plus I can vent about the computer crisis. We just took Eli in for his 9 month doctor visit so here are the stats and tricks he has been up to:

1. Weight: 19 1/2 lbs (30%) He's definitely no jumbo tank. :)

2. Height: 30 in. (90%)

3. He is so fast!!! He can crawl up the stairs in seconds, but he hasn't caught on yet on how to get back down.

4. He pulls himself up on anything. Couch, chairs, laundry hamper, bathtub, cabinets, highchair, etc.

5. He loves, loves taking a bath. When he hears me turn on the water he crawls right over and stands up next to the tub with a big grin.

6. He has an obsession with the drapes hanging in front of the sliding back door, so we have to pull them up on a chair out of his reach. He also loves the blinds, so we have to keep those up as well. So much for privacy!

7. He eats, and eats, and eats. We have started trying little pieces of banana, bread, pasta. He loves to feed himself the puffs (kind-of like Cheerios). And he now eats all the baby food we try--even peas.

8. He says "dada", dad, & "mama" now, although his "mama" sounds like "nana".

9. He loves to hold onto our hands or fingers and walk. Sometimes he even holds onto his toy that has wheels and walks behind it.