In = Out

9 whole months!  And by the time we actually took pictures (think the day before he was 10-months....oops!) he was definitely longer out than he was in.  

I can't believe he's already 9 months.  He's getting more and more fun everyday and as our friend so kindly put it when we were over at his new house "wow, he's vocal".  Yes, we have the LOUD baby.  Sorry about that... I didn't realize that not all babies yelled (not screaming/crying/tantrums - literally just yelling to hear his own voice 90% of the time).  We are so lucky.

What's new in the Colin universe?  He is going on 8 teeth.  We seem to turn around and he's getting more, just as we think the teething phase is passing.  He reeeeaaachs for things.  He doesn't crawl.  He just leans forward as far as he can, puts his hands down, scoots his legs a little bit closer (while they are almost in Indian Style in front of him) and gets what he wants and proceeds to sit back down.  He has no interest in a full on crawling.  It's driving me bonkers.  I just wish he would do it already, especially since we have the doctor's appointment follow up tomorrow so it would be exciting to report back that he's crawling, and doing all the things he wants him to be doing.  You put him on his belly though, and it's like a collar on a cat - he feels he has been completely immobilized and that his limbs no longer work.  We are still practicing and working on it.

He's really into John right now too, which is fun to see and definitely fun for John.  I thought I might miss being his go-to, but it's actually kind of nice and gives my arms a bit of a break.  And I'm sure that he'll keep going back and forth, so I'm okay with the shift ---- for a while.  

Foods are still good.  We are incredibly lazy so getting food for him and having him try things is NOT our forte.  We are such late risers in the morning that it's hard to wake up in time to get him to eat before we leave for work - and we eat after he goes to bed since we only get about 1 hr before he's tired and we have to start reading stories and putting on pajamas.  So that's something we are going to work on so that he actually gets some food in the diet and not just milk.  But honestly, for 6 months he was solely reliant on milk, it's TOUGH to change our thinking to incorporate other food.  It's so much easier to not think about it.  

I guess that's about it.  I feel like I should write more about other things too -- but right now, at least for his first year of life, I think he's probably the most exciting thing I have going on.