Wednesday, June 13, 2007

9 months old!

Kiernan is 9 months old today. I can't believe it. He's so grown up!!

9 months seems like such a significant milestone to me. Possibly because I walked at 9 months and so my whole life I think I thought of 9 months old as important. K isn't walking yet (and that's FINE with me) but he's doing SO many things, and going through so many changes:

- he now has 4 teeth. Two on the top and two on the bottom. Once those top two are fully down, it's going to totally change his face; I'm a bit nervous to be honest.
- He can self entertain! Unless he's tired or bored, he can sit for up to an HOUR at times, playing or watching tv. I could hardly have imagined it not that long ago.
- He LOVES cats. He sees a cat and gets really excited and starts waving at it. Almost makes me want a cat. (only almost ;)
- I've mentioned the standing thing, but he's also getting really good at walking with our assistance. He motors across a room, often is a relatively straight line.
- Some nights he'll sleep 5-6 hours in a row! Sometimes I'm asleep too!
- He's such a monkey! And that is his most common nickname lately.

Let's take a walk down memory lane, shall we?

First there was 'wormy'


Quite quickly he filled out a lot and didn't look quite so wormy. Kiernan at 5 weeks:


Then he started doing stuff, and we could pretend he did it on purpose. Look at him waving at the camera for us! Kiernan at 3 months:


Then his hair started falling out and I called him baldy. Despite all the comments from people with 2 year olds who barely had as much hair as Kiernan had - to me it was very sad looking :(
Kiernan at 4 months:

6 months was a good time. He was sitting well, we'd figured out the soy and milk thing so he wasn't in pain as much, and I was starting to feel a lot more comfortable too I think.

8.5 months old - on the verge of being mobile, really starting turning into a monkey

Monkey this morning, when we were trying to get a nice 9 month photo with the bear. You can actually see his teeth if you go to the full-sized photo. Happy .75 birthday monkey! :)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

You let him watch TV for HOURS? ;)

Jenn Nusbaum said...

You mention being worried about his teeth changing his look. I felt the same way with Jacob. I thought he wouldn't be nearly as cute once he got teeth. Low and behold, every tooth he got made him look that much cuter!! So, don't worry! Once a cute baby, always a cute baby! And Kiernan is CUTE! :D

Some kind of Mom said...

He's changing so much!I think you are doing a bang-up job keeping track of all his milestones! :) Good job!

And I was going to say, 'so when are you getting a cat!' haha- Kiernan is welcome to play with Charlotte anytime!

(slightly) less cynical said...

Don't worry Kiernan, if we put the cat in the ferret cage, mommy will never know...

TheButterfly2 said...

Happy nine months Kiernan! I know what you mean about feeling nine months was a big milestone. I was walking at nine months too and Alliana isn't yet either (she's nine and a half this weekend). At first it kind of worried me but then I realized she is diong a lot of other things and babies just develop differently.
Alliana is getting two top teeth to and I TOTALLY know what you mean about it changing their faces! I actually laughed with relief when I read that because I've been worried too! :o)
Anyway, Kiernan is super cute and congrats on nine months!