Wrapped In Love

When he was first born, G LOVED to be swaddled. We probably ended up swaddling him to sleep for longer than most other babies. He still loves to be all wrapped up!



Our next step to work on losing that paci!

Double Digits!

Graham is 10 months old! This week he began to test his balance by trying to stand without holding onto anything. Yesterday, he even took a few steps! Walking soon?

G is also working on perfecting waving bye-bye and clapping.

I can't believe we are a mere two months away from the little man turning 1!

Target Baby

Graham loves browsing the aisles at Target just as much as his Mama! Another Target link between Graham and I is that we definitely love to sport our stylish Target threads!!

Ring-a-Ling

9 is Divine

It's hard to believe that Graham has been out in the world with us for 9 months, nearly the same amount of time I was pregnant with him (I was 9 months and 3 weeks along, 1 week from my due date when I delivered him). Our lives have completely changed, but every single part of it has been a complete joy.

At 9 months, Graham is expertly crawling and pulling up. He has started to cruise and every now and then I cathc him trying to let go and stand all on his own. He FINALLY cut teeth. The two front bottom ones are out (1 about halfway up, the other just came through the gum the other day). He has started to really interact with his toys and is definitely understanding action and reaction (if I push this button, it makes the sound I think is funny; if I drop it here, it will land there; etc.). He continues to be an awesome sleeper (12 hours at night, two 1-2 hour naps during the day). He loves his solids and is getting quite good with finger foods. He absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVES water, but hasn't mastered a sippy cup on his own yet. Watching him grow and change is amazing. The changes in his development are obvious from one week to the next and it is so much fun watching him explore his world. In 3 short months, our baby boy will celebrate his 1st birthday - hard to believe!

*UPDATE (on 8/8/2011): G went for his 9 month checkup today. He weighed in at 20 lbs. 4 oz., which keeps him in the 50th percentile. He measured 29 inches long, which keeps him in the 75th percentile. His development is right on track, although we were asked if he can wave "bye-bye," which he can't. Guess we'll be working on that one!

Cheers to 2 Years!

Like Mother, Like Son

I am apparently not the only one in our household who loves clean laundry. In fact, G decided that he loved his basket of clean laundry so much, that he might as well just climb in and lie in the basket.







*On a side note, I can't believe that I have an almost 9 month old that has the ability to climb into a laundry basket on his own.