Busy, happy, lovey boy! Boy oh boy, you are ALL BOY! This past month has been a flurry of exciting changes as you have really started to move out into the world around you. With your crawling skills mastered you have decided you can get where you want to be and manipulate your environment, a thrilling milestone to watch! I laugh when you rediscover a toy you haven't played with in a few months and have your way with it. You love your new toys too! A current favorite is your shapes box, I cannot wait to see you master putting the shapes in the right slot. For now you have decided it is much easier to pull the lid off; my sweet, smart boy! Through all your developments, your personality remains constant. You are happy, but sensitive; laid-back, but particular; you are smart and inquisitive; outgoing and shy at the same time. Our biggest accomplishment is that over the past month you have started sleeping through the night, IN YOUR OWN BED! HALLELUJAH! It took me nine months but we finally reached the point where we were ready to sleep train you. Yes, we 'cried it out'. It actually was not as bad as we anticipated. Since you have never been a great napper, I knew we were doing you a disservice when we were not allowing you to learn how to self sooth. After three long nights you started sleeping through the night and learned how to put yourself back to sleep. It is touch and go, but we have all gotten more sleep in the last two weeks than in all the months before! It makes me happy that you are learning to be an independent sleeper and I hope you learn to love sleep as much as your Dad and I do. I am positive you will have this mastered by age 14, wherefore I am plotting my revenge, ha! Another thing that has picked up momentum is your appetite. You have a hearty appetite lately, and an adventurous palate. You will eat ANYTHING! I can hardly get a bite in during a meal, you want everything on Mom's plate. We recently started you in ISR swimming lessons, I am positive this has contributed to you increased hunger and improved sleep. To be honest, you hate lessons. Despite the disdain you are making great progress and it reassures me to have that extra layer of protection from the pool as you learn to walk. Walking is right around the corner, though I am not in a hurry. You are already into everything and walking will only complicate matters, oye-vey! I anticipate we will have to be on our toes indefinitely; what a crazy, beautiful life. You are our sunshine baby boy. We cannot wait to enjoy all of the exciting things to come.
Today you are nine months old.
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