Almost Nine Months Old!

We cheated and took Jackson for his nine month check-up about a week early. That was necessary because we will be celebrating that nine month mark in Evanston! YAY! We have a nice, long trip planned, so we needed to take care of those important things before leaving :) Jackson weighed in at 19 lbs 11 ozs and measures 27.5 inches tall! I breathed a HUGE sigh of relief that he was under 20 pounds! While I have done plenty of research and settled on our next carseat, I'm definitely not ready to give up our wonderful infant carrier yet! We definitely have bought ourselves a few more months with it--woo hoo!

Part of the reason that I've been so lax on blogging is that we have a very busy boy on our hands! He just does not stop going! He much prefers being left to his own devices to crawl around and explore everything! Josh successfully installed one baby gate and is working on being creative for the other one we need. Our stairs just don't lend themselves to the traditional gates... I know he'll come up with something :) Jackson has a new toy, a LeapFrog activity table and he loves standing at it and pushing all the buttons. He pulls himself up to standing on almost everything. I have to say his favorite place to play (much to Mommy and Daddy's dismay) is under the computer desk with all the cords, wires, and modem with flashing lights! There just is no good way to separate all of this so we just keep a close eye on this stealthy boy ;)

My goal for the next couple of months is to get better at giving Jackson "real" food to try. I told the doctor that I'm so terrified of him choking that he will probably have pureed baby food in his lunchbox in 1st grade! Luckily, Jackson loves to eat pretty much everything so I'm sure he'll be thrilled to try some new things :)