Mateo - Nine months

Holy smokes...I had no idea a 9 month old was such a busy age but we're enjoying every.single.second. At his check up, he weighed 20 lbs 6 oz and is 28 inches long. The doc said he is perfect (and might just be the cutest.baby.EVER!! Ok, sorry, done bragging) and can basically eat whatever he wants minus the eggs, milk, peanuts, honey.

Well, so far there isn't anything Mateo hasn't liked. The list of foods he's had (and this is more for me so I can remember):

• Spaghetti
• Pasta with goat cheese, lemon, asparagus (minus the asparagus for him)
• Grilled cheese
• Yogurt
• Tuna Casserole
• Peaches
• Green beans
• Freeze pops - very nutritional!
• Mashed potatoes
• Chicken
• Applesauce
• Avacado
• Bananas
• Cheerios
• Parsnips
• Cucumber

The last two are thanks to daycare as I think both are ishy. We're pretty much giving him anything that we eat as long as we can cut it small enough and its not too sharp or hard to chew (hence, no aspargus in the pasta dish).

Mateo will now clap and wave bye-bye when he ask him too and he just started to raise his hands in the air when we ask him how big he is. He says "dadadada," "mamamama," and other baby babbles. I think the cutest thing he does (although I'm pretty sure Joe doesn't agree) is babbles loudly when he's mad. He's for sure telling us what the trouble is, we just can't understand.

He's also a super fast crawler and loves to open the drawers in the kitchen as shown here:

He's standing a bit more by himself for about 30 seconds and we've moved into the stage of if he can see it, he finds a way to get it. Mateo is definitely teaching Joe and I that places we thought were safe is not the case.

4th of July

For Mateo's first 4th of July, we headed to ET for an action packed weekend of family, food and fun. Amy and I stopped at our friend Kari's to see her new, beautiful house, Joe and I had a double date with Amy and Luke to see Transformers 3 (and we were in the theater that served food - like we sat at a half moon table instead of how the theaters are actually set up), we had a party so the extended fam and friends could meet Mateo in person and we ended the weekend at Steph and Troy's for the parade! It was a blast!