9 Month Check-Up

Last week was Brennan's 9 month well visit with Dr. Myers. He's still right around the 75th percentile for weight and height, at 21 lbs. 8 oz. and a little over 30 inches long. His favorite pasttimes are crawling around, gnawing on anything he can find, and pulling himself up on every piece of furniture in the house. Audrey's favorite pasttimes are taking his toys, teasing him with other toys and running away as fast as she can. Needless to say we're working on it, but it's funny to see how natural that type of behavior seems to be (or she just gets it from her father).

Other updates:

Brennan took to finger foods so well that he basically hasn't had a bit of baby food in the last month or so. He finally got the hang of clapping, though he rarely shows off his skill. He's been doing a lot more "talking", to the point that we swear he can say the word "up" (coincidentally, his sister's favorite movie). He seems to dislike any kind of prolonged motion outside of the car, including bike and train rides (it remains to be seen if the helmet and loudness of the train played into it, but we'll see). He loves it outside, and is always crawling to the screen doors and windows to see what's going on.

Otherwise, it's the same old, same old with Audrey. She also loves it outside, but unlike her brother is a much bigger fan of bike rides. She just picked up the word "dammit", but we've been able to convince her to use it sparingly at this point - Theresa can't figure out if it's from her or from Grammy (I had no part in that one). She also started calling Theresa "Trice" and "Tricey" - we have no idea where she got it from, but Theresa considers it a term of endearment, so we're letting it slide.

Since we've been remiss in posting updates for the past (almost) month, here is some of the goings-on around the house.