Kellan--9 months

Email update sent on October 22:
Kellan is nine months old already!!! He just seems older this month. I think he's starting to get into things a little more. Starting to get more curious. He LOVES being outside, he loves being in the stroller. He had a fabulous time at Disney World just looking at everything. He was a champ there! Totally off his schedule for eating and sleeping, but didn't hardly complain about it at all.

He has two bottom teeth now. The second one just popped through in the last couple days. He still eats like crazy. He's an awesome sleeper at night. He's already down to about one good long nap per day now. But I'm okay with that. It was always kind of hard with our crazy schedule around here to fit two naps in a day anyway.

He's eating more table food (still no nuts, eggs, or honey). He seems to like much of what you give him and tolerates the rest. Peas and green beans are probably the worst things to feed him. He's not real happy about those. But he does tolerate zucchini pretty well for a green veggie. And last night I just put a few bits of lettuce and red pepper on his tray. He tried them and made faces at the taste, but ate several bites of each anyway.

He just started to "talk" a tiny bit in the last week or so. He makes a sound that sounds like he's trying to say "ella" and he's said a "dada" sound a couple times. But nothing I would definitively say are his first words.

Hmm....other than that, not much to report. We go to his 9-month checkup on Monday. But I already know he's right around 20lbs. We'll be switching him out of the infant seat into the regular car seat as soon as I can get Andrew to do the switcheroo.

See attached photos....
Kellan1 is his first time sitting in a restaurant high chair like a big boy
Kellan2--the girls now have the chore of putting all the dishes away from the dishwasher. Kellan LOVES to "help". He is very intrigued by the dishwasher and I think he would like to climb right in if we would let him. ;-)
Kellan3--just ready for a walk..cute photo
Kellan4&5--his first time sitting in a leaf pile playing with the leaves
Kellan 6--if you look really closely in his mouth, you can see his little bottom tooth in there.
Kellan7--Just thought it was cute that he was standing at the door with a "whatcha doin'?" expression on his face as he watched me take a photo of Lily outside.
Kellan8--a little sneak peek of a 9-month photo I took at the Arboretum...did a full family session with us. But I still need to work on all the photos.
Kellan 9--one of my favorite photos from all the ones I took at Disney. I love how it looks like he's almost wearing the big hat at Hollywood Studios.