9 Months

Our sweet little boy is 9 months old today.  Time flies when you are having fun.  And boy does Amos have a lot of fun.  

His physical developments have been mastering picking up anything - even the small speck of fuzz on the carpet that Mom and Dad missed-, improving his one hand support walk and beginning to stand on his own.  He got his second tooth and is currently working on tooth #3.

In the eating department, he is almost solely eating table food.  He loves meat, pasta, cottage cheese, cheese, bread, bananas, potatoes, and well basically everything we have fed him.  He also started eating his breakfast with his hand!  What a mess.  But he loves it.  We got the go ahead from our doctor to let him eat anything we are eating, minus anything with peanuts.  Also, he said that we can start introducing whole milk! Yay!

He's jabbering up a storm this days.   The few words that he has no idea he is saying are:  "dada", "ball", "baby" and finally "mom" is back in his vocabulary.  He really seems to love music.  It doesn't matter if I'm singing, or Jason or just the radio, but he puts on his biggest smile and starts to "sing" along.  He's very independent and loves to play by himself, but from time to time, he'll let us join in on the fun.  Especially if we are going to scare or surprise him.  He still isn't too sure about being thrown up in the air.  However, just yesterday, Jason and I were throwing him back and forth on our bed, and he didn't want to stop.  In fact, after we decided we were done, he continued to climb back and forth between our laps trying to get one of us to throw him.

This month has also brought with the "whine" from not getting my way, and an angry cry.  Up until this point, it has been easy to think that our child is perfect.   But as we begin to see his self-will come out, we know that we must turn to Jesus and trust Amos and our parenting and discipline into His hands.  He loves Amos more that we do and will be faithful to guide us as we raise him.  The best is yet to come!