9 months

Camden...Where do I start with this little guy?!!  He is so much fun! We all love him to pieces and can't seem to get enough of him. He is sooooo super busy. I find myself actually having to baby proof my house. Something that I never really had to do with my girls. He gets into EVERYTHING!! We already know that if it is quiet, that he is up to no good. He knows how to open all of the cupboards and I have found him with the dish soap bottle in his mouth (luckily it was closed). He loves to crawl over to my plant and knock it over and break all of the grass that is in it. 

At 9 months he  Weighs:  22 lbs.  80%

Height: 29 1/2 inches   85%

He is a big boy who loves to eat anything and everything that we are eating. He hardly ever gets baby food anymore. He loves to laugh and he loves to whine. He is very good at both, however maybe a little bit better at the whining. He loves his binkie. If you would have asked us 2 months ago if liked his binkie, we would have said no, now we can't get him to let go of it. I am not sure how I feel about this. On one hand it is really nice because it stops everything from going into his mouth, on the other, he is so attached that the only way to get him to stop crying and whining is to give him the binkie. He can say "mama, baba(byby)". He waves and when you say "big boy" he will raise his arms in the air and get a huge grin. Also, whenever he is getting into something that he shouldn't and we say "no no" he just looks at us, smiles, and keeps doing it like it is a game. Little turkey!!! He is learning new things everyday and we don't know what we would do without him.

 Here he is "helping" me with his laundry.  Look at that cute little smile though.....

 What mom?! (also, don't mind the santa pj's...the kid is so big, they won't fit him by Christmas and they fit him perfectly now!)

 Here he is "helping" with the dishes. This is one of his favorite things to do.

 Notice the big bruise on his forehead....we already call him bruiser. He constantly has one.

 What are these....stairs?! He will climb up the first step and then fall back words off of it. One day he will learn.

 He LOVES shoes. In particular Addie's flip flops. When he doesn't have a binkie in these are in his mouth. YUM right?! Totally grosses me out. We have started putting our shoes in the closet because of this.

 These are my pumpkins that say BOO. They are usually stacked and look really cute. His favorite thing to do is knock them over and chase them around.

 Here I am asking him what he is doing....his response, that cute little smile.

 One of his favorite (and only) cabinets that he allowed to get into is the snack one. Here he is trying to get a fruit snack out of the bucket. He finally grabs 2 and starts munching away. Then he gets tired of them and is off again leaving a trail behind him. (Also, he normally does have shorts on, just sometimes when it is hot and we are just staying home, I don't put them back on him unless we are going somewhere).

He loves to be doing whatever the girls are doing. The girls were trying to color this big color wonder mat last week. He crawled right over to see what was going on. I love, love, love these pictures. They truly capture who he is and how the girls handle him. The very first picture he is licking the mat trying to get some of the water off of it. Then he is just checking it out. Then in the very middle picture he gets board, and turns and attacks Addie. She just falls over waiting to be rescued, because she isn't strong enough to fight back (she only weighs about 10 lbs. more than him). Next he moves onto the stairs. Finally he comes back around and starts attacking Macie. She is alot more fun because she can actually handle him. She continues coloring and playing while he crawls all over her. In the bottom middle picture, she is making a spitting noise and he is trying to copy her. So cute! These kids sure love each other and the girls (thankfully) are sooo very patient with a little brother that loves to destroy whatever they are doing.