Another month has some how passed and we now are the proud owners (I definitely just typed Owen there) of a 9 month old. This has been quite the eventful month here. Of course Owen celebrated his first Christmas and first New Year. He is so full of personality and this month it has definitely started to show everywhere. There is no more army crawling. It is all crawling or walking along the furniture, bathtub, wall, whatever. He has discovered that he not only can leave the room that he is in, but he can follow me and Jacob around the house. I have frequently lost Owen in the house for a few minutes when he follows Jacob and then either gets distracted or can't keep up when Jacob leaves a room. His favorite thing to do while I am busy in the kitchen is follow Jacob around or play in the play kitchen. This month has also brought a ton more talking for Owen. Lots of mamas and babas and sometimes he will throw in a pa in there. No dadas yet, but we try to encourage that. He will call me mama and Jacob baba and he just started calling Josh mama too. In addition to the talking he screeches. Loudly. He loves to hear his echo and will sit in the hallway and just screech over and over and over. It is so loud but hilarious. He also screams. Slightly less high pitched than the screech. But the scream is used to tell us when he wants something, food, sleep, blankie, a toy, to nurse, attention. I was slightly worried about Owen not talking much because Jacob talks so much, but with this recent development, I am reassured that he will make himself heard.
Owen has also started playing with Jacob so much more. He wants to play with whatever Jacob is playing with, eat whatever he is eating, be where ever he is. He loves his brother so much. His favorite thing to play with right now is Jacobs legos. He loves to unlock the lego box, take the lid off and dump all of the legos out and bang them. Then he plays with the box then picks up the big yellow piece and chews on it. As of today, he still has no teeth, but there are two little bumps on the bottom so we are anticipating them any day now. The lack of teeth does not affect his eating at all though! He eats everything we eat. His favorite food right now is graham crackers. He loves them! He is also fond of prunes, pears, apples, and waffles. Oh and feeding Cosmo. He likes to throw stuff off his highchair to see how fast we can get to it before Cosmo gets it. He has also started using a sippy cup for water. He seems to have figured it out fairly quickly. It hangs out in the living room during the day so he grabs it randomly and drinks some water.
His 9 month check up isn't for another 2 weeks. We combined his 9 month and Jacob's 4 year visits since that would have put us in the office twice in 2 weeks. So I will update with his stats then.
And because Jacob wasn't up for a picture today here is an outtake
