Cooper At 9 Months

Here's the latest on little man...

Eating: We transitioned from still breastfeeding some, to strictly formula/bottle-fed. It was definitely bittersweet, but it was time. We exceeded our goal of six months, and he has done great with the transition. Probably better than me. He's now having 5 bottles a day; a breakfast of oatmeal or rice cereal and sometimes a fruit; and supper of a fruit and veggie. We just started adding a lunch meal of a fruit or veggie as well. He's had real bananas, butter beans, and black-eyed peas (all mushed up of course) and done pretty well with all of those.

Sleeping: We are blessed with a good sleeper. For the most part he goes to bed about 9 and sleeps until 6-7. He had a couple of 4:00am mornings and he got to snuggle in bed with mom and dad until time to get up, but other than that he's always in his own bed at night. Napping is not quite as consistent. He takes 2-3 naps a day and most of the time someone is holding him or napping with him (me!).

Other Cool Stuff: He officially moved from army crawling to fully crawling on all fours. At first he would go just a couple of steps and then back to the belly, but over a couple of days, he moved to being on all fours all the time. He's also getting faster and stronger... able to go a little further without having to rest. Over 3-4 evenings he went from crawling from the middle of the living room to the table, to crawling from the middle of the living room to the kitchen.

He's still babbling like crazy with lots of "dadada" and some "mamama". He's adding in some other sounds too ("nanana", "guh", "hey"). Every once in a while he'll come out with a trill or loud scream when he's either super excited or super upset.

He'll wave at you. Gives high five. Looks for things that we take away from him like our phones or the remote.

We celebrated his first Christmas and New Year's during this month. I've just finished a photo book detailing all our celebrations and will leave all the pics and stories for the book.

Doctor Stats and Update: We have a very healthy baby boy!!! His development is right on track and the doctor didn't have any concerns. He said we could start giving him more table foods (this makes me nervous for some reason) and some milk products like cottage cheese and yogurt. We were very happy that he had grown a good bit since his last visit since last time he wasn't even on the charts.
Height: 28 inches (50th percentile)
Weight: 17 lbs 11 oz (10th percentile)