Nine Month Post

Harrison is 9 months old!

From Week 36

From Week 36

Favorite Things: Animal Train Toy, bouncy balls, bubbles, playing in the pool, playing “Where’s Harrison?” (aka Peek-a-boo), reading (eating) books, watching and petting animals, music (when Harrison hears music he immediately stops what he is doing to listen and often sings and dances along), climbing mommy, daddy, and furniture

From Week 37

Least Favorite Things: holding still to have his diaper changed (we have to sing “ABC’s” to distract him – he usually joins in with his own version), changing clothes (it’s kind of like trying to bathe a cat!), having his face wiped/cleaned, having things taken away from him, the baby gate, the vacuum cleaner

From Week 37

Tricks: Sings and dances when he hears music, sits up by himself, pulls up on anything that holds still (furniture, the dog, mom and dad), cruises across the furniture (every now and then he takes a couple very daring steps by himself), crawling (which is still more like a slither than a crawl), falling on his fanny

From Week 38

Foods Tried: Harrison has three meals a day and one afternoon snack. I try to feed him a small version of what we eat most nights. He still loves applesauce but he is especially fond of food he can eat all by himself. He loves banana pieces, mashed potatoes, banana puffs, and cheese curls (the baby food version). He is definitely a southern boy and loved trying his first taste of cheese grits.

From Week 37

Sleeping schedule: Harrison is a decent sleeper. He takes two naps during the day (and usually one very short nap). He falls asleep around 8 or 9 and wakes up around 6 or 7. He was waking up every night but there have been a few nights mixed in where he has slept completely through the night. He does great when he isn’t teething or when he doesn’t have a cold – unfortunately there have been a lot of both this month.

From Week 37

Big Events:
• Weekend with the Coverdale grandparents while Sam and I dad visited Nashville for a wedding

• Week in Fairhope with the Heacock grandparents while Sam studied for an exam (he passed) – Harrison loved my parents pets, especially the “itties”

• Harrison switches from nursing to formula – this switch was surprisingly easy for all involved

• Harrison becomes incredibly mobile and quickly goes from crawling to sitting up on his own to climbing up on EVERYTHING. This is nothing stopping him now!

• We take a family trip to the Memphis Zoo over Memorial Day weekend – Harrison loved the monkeys and the polar bears.

• Closes out the month with a cold (boo!) and two new teeth (top incisors) – neither slows the little guy down.

From Week 36

Mom is having to come up with clever ways to keep me out of trouble!

Pudding Painting

In a moment of insanity, I thought it might be fun to do a little pudding painting with Harrison. Despite a few little mistakes on my part (I forget sometimes how mobile Harrison is right now), Harrison had a blast!

From Week 38

While Harrison was napping I fixed some instant vanilla pudding. Once it was mixed I filled three baby food jars with pudding and then added red, blue and yellow food coloring to each jar.

From Week 38

I set up a little painting area outside. This would have been perfect for an older painter but I should have just taken the high chair outside for Harrison’s painting. That didn’t stop us from having fun though; it just made it hard to contain a crawling baby once he started getting bored.

From Week 38

Harrison loved the texture of the pudding and shrieked with delight when I put his hands into the little mounds of color. He quickly covered the Kraft paper and himself in a mixture of color.

From Week 38

I won’t hold my breath on art scholarships just yet but I was pretty impressed with his first masterpiece.

From Week 38

Clean up was actually pretty easy. I just put Harrison into the sink (clothes and all).

Gasp!!!

From Week 38

I walked into Harrison's room this morning only to see a baby standing up in his crib looking back at me. I don't know why I was so surprised since he has been pulling up by himself for several weeks now. Regardless, there is something shocking about seeing a baby standing in his crib.

At least he usually has a smile on his face when he has pulled himself up. I love walking into his room to see my sweet little boy smiling back at me.