Wren you are at a fun age for enjoying the summertime with your big brothers. A bit younger and you may have been relegated to the Bjorn all season. A bit older and you'd be fully walking and even faster than you already are and I might have had to seriously reconsider my adamant stance against the use of kid leashes (don't worry Birdie, I'd use it on one of the boys). Your ability to sit and crawl so well has let us all enjoy time at more pools and plenty of local beaches.
But about your sitting and crawling. Our days are numbered. You've taken to letting go while standing and holding on to something. At the beginning of the month it was only for a brief moment. But in the past few days - whooo wheeee. We're talking nearly 10 seconds of free-standing. Joe insists you took one and a half steps to him. But I was in the other room, so I don't count that. Plus, I've seen you attempts to take a step. While attempts are good, greatly encouraged, and enthusiastically cheered for, I'm going to challenge you (you and I are #3's...we have older siblings to keep up with, and me a younger one. Not you...no younger sibling for you. Trust me, your brothers will gladly step into that role and give you that extra incentive without us needing to prove that giving you a younger sibling would be even more motivation) to really do it. I'm not sure if your real first step is days away or weeks away, I'm nearly certain it's not months away. I'll be watching for your confident stance, lifting your foot, moving it forward, planting it down and then bringing your other foot next to it.
- One of your first wobbly moments after letting go while standing
In the world of food, we've just accepted that you have no interest in pureed baby food and want to make our lives easier. You get our table food and seem much more interested in that. Pancakes and cereal for breakfast. Rotisserie chicken and veggies for dinner. Crackers and fruit for snacks. Sometimes we luck out and you and Otto even handle the cooking.
At nine months you are 21 lbs, 14 oz (92%) and 30" (99%). That makes you the same height as Otto and taller than Max was at this age. You weigh less than both of them did.
For your nine month birthday treat we tried to make a Pinterest "Kids in the Kitchen" recipe. Melting chocolate, dipping little blown up balloons in them and then putting them in the freezer to make chocolate bowls for a scoop of ice cream. Our balloons kept popping (perhaps I was supposed to inflate them and let them deflate a few days so that the heat from the chocolate didn't pop them). So instead we dipped some soufflé cups in the chocolate. Surprise, surprise, that didn't work either. So instead we just had the best ice cream known to man (Graeter's Black Raspberry Chip) and the boys licked the chocolate off the soufflé cups.
- This picture reminds me of when you were barely a month old. You very well could have been reaching for something so you could stand up, but I'll choose to remember it as your smile still open and your arms still wide doing their best to take in everything from this beautiful world.
- An incredibly hot June day at the Sculpture Garden. So hot I declined trying to get a picture of us all in front of the Cherry Spoon and instead snapped a few photos in the shade. With no sculptures in site.
- You're waving "Hi" now. Not on time and more like you're waving your hand in the air as if you were dancing.
- Blueberry pancakes!
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