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.