Harrison is 9 months old!
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Mom is having to come up with clever ways to keep me out of trouble!
