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Yep we have a 9 month old on our hands. And he is so fun! Such a funny personality. Again, I don't know how professional photographers do it, I fail at getting a good picture of him! But here are the attempts..

Austin's Stats:

Weight: 19.12 lbs (48%)

Height: 29" (75%)

Head: on his WCC sheet, the nurse wrote "100+%"...oh dear!

Just being a goofball....

His first time swimming over at Uncle Jordan and Aunt Loraca's! He LOVED playing in the water with his aunts and uncles!
(Tell me you see a resemblence in this picture?!)

Yep the hat barely fits..poor guy!

Multi-tasking haha. He loves to grab things with his feet.

Attempting to crawl, getting closer every week :)


He still loves to jump! He gets going super fast and swings back and forth through the doorway. He also bumps into the door frame and his dresser behind him and doesn't even care!

Puts everything in his mouth!

He makes this hilarious face, where he scrunches it. His eyes get all squinty and he gives a big, toothy smile, it's quite hilarious! The crazy thing is, Jake's brother Jordan did that as a baby. He did it so much his parents called it "choppies" (he shows his teeth)..and had him doing it on command. So I'm trying to get Austin trained to do that too haha. I'm having a hard time capturing it on the camera though..so this is pretty much after the scrunch face!

9 Month Facts:

-Austin loves to play peek-a-boo. He'll go back and forth with you, hiding his face in a blanket.
- He's finally done simply sleeping on his back. He is all over that crib! And he gave up being swaddled on his own..at about 7/8months I think?

- Making progress in the food department, aiming to have him off the bottle a teensy bit early (13 days before his 1yr birthday) to make it easier for whoever watches him while Jake and I head to Sundance over a weekend for our friends' wedding! Yeah we'll see how that goes! His pediatrician approved my selfish plan haha. Hopefully he'll at least be down to just his morning and bedtime bottles.

-Austin loves his books. He likes to flip the pages and he has them "memorized." Like he has favorite parts and gets excited when they're coming, and also knows exactly where the touch and feel parts are. He gets super upset if I don't keep reading his books over and over and over. I can only handle reading them all like 2-3 times then I have to distract him.

-He loved the fireworks, and wasn't afraid at all, phew!

-Jake was gone for a whole week for our ward's High Adventure Camp, so Austin and I had a great time keeping busy with family and friends that week! I took him to Wheeler Farm for the first time with Grandpa Kevin..good time! A goat nibbled on his fingers and he didnt seem to mind.

I'm getting excited about planning his 1st birthday! Seriously I cannot believe he'll be a toddler before we know it. He's not suppose to do that, but he doesn't listen!