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"Great things are brought about and burdens lightened through the efforts of many hands “anxiously engaged in a good cause.” Imagine what the millions of Latter-day Saints could accomplish in the world if we functioned like a beehive in our focused, concentrated commitment to the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ." M. Russell Ballard October 2012 General Conference

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Kyle Brandt is 9 months old

Another month has gone by and there have been some big changes with Kyle.  The week after I posted about him being 8 months old he
-started sitting up on his own for long periods of time.
-crawled 14-15 steps on the May 16 and now he is unstoppable and goes all over the place.
-started noticing other babies at church and when they were making noises.  He leans toward babies.
This is other stuff he has been doing too this month.
-loves loves to see himself in the mirror.
-on May 20 he pulled himself up on the couch.
-he makes motorboat sounds.
-he pulled the ficus tree down on top of him.  Connor saw it happening but was too far away to stopit.  He did say though "I said sh** but it didn't do anything."
-he is not a happy rider in the car anymore.
-he is not a happy dinner partner.  We went to Texas Roadhouse on 5-12 and it was quite the challenge. We also went out for Laura's graduation last night and he was passed around the dinner table.
-he does sit up in a high chair at restaurants though.
-he crawls over to whoever he wants to pick him up and climbs up their legs.
-he has eaten macaroni and cheese, enchilada soup, baked potatoes, french fries, toast, saltines, townhouse, watermelon, potato salad, frog eye salad and bean and ham soup.  He really prefers much more solid food than baby food.

-we did get his room put together last weekend-June 3-but the one night I put him in there to sleep and I stayed in the recliner he woke up all night long.  I hardly slept and couldn't turn my head to well the next day.
-the pack and play, his swing, and the diapering stuff is still in our room but we moved everything else out to his room.
 -he still sleeps in the bed with us.  This is becoming less and less fun.  He tosses and turns and kicks and ends up under the pillows sometimes.  I am reading a few books on how to get him to go to his own bed because he just screams and screams when we put him in his pack and play and if he falls asleep and we move him he immediately opens his eyes.  No amount of singing or face rubbing will get him back to sleep.  Tonight I am going to try and sleep with him in his room on a mattress on the floor so he can atleast start getting used to his room.  Connor is very concerned about him being left to cry in his bed and I really don't want to do that anyway but he is not making this easy!
-he likes to blow big spit bubbles and says mmmaa while he is doing it.
-he pushed the barstool out of his way to get down the hall last week.
-he pulls back on the banana rockers trying to tip them over.
-we call him Spiderman because he pulls himself up on the walls.
-he has smacked his head repeatedly on the tile.
-Cayden loves to play with tape and leaves little pieces lying around.  Kyle puts them in his mouth and has gagged on them twice.
-he still takes a short nap about an hour and half after he wakes up.  Longer nap in the afternoon and we are trying to get him away from the late power nap so he will go to bed earlier.  Not happened yet.
He loves patty cake and I still sing him Primary songs everyday. 
-we think he waves sometimes but when we want him to he doesn't.
-he gives open mouth kisses.
-he snuggles up against my neck and shoulder almost like a hug.
-he weighs over 20 pounds but I am not sure what his height is.  He should get his 9 month check up here soon if I get it scheduled.
-he is definitely out of the baby tub and loves to scoot around and splash in the big tub.
-he wears mostly 12 month clothes but some of them are even getting too small.
-he is still super spitty and wears a bib almost all day long.
-no haircut yet-it's too cute but getting longer and longer.
-he likes to pinch the backs of your arms when he is being held.  He needs his nails cut twice a weeks still.
-he loves my earrings.  It is funny to watch him look back and forth back and forth at them when he sees them.  He grabs and yanks at them until I have to just take them out and put them away.  I don't wear much jewelry anymore. 

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