Hanging out with Great Aunt Joyce.

9 months old today! He had his 9 month check up Friday. He weighs 21 lbs, 4 oz and is 29 1/2 inches. He still does not crawl but he is trying really hard. He usually ends up crawling backwards though. He loves standing up and started saying Da-da-da-da a couple weeks ago. He had already been saying ba-ba-ba for a while, now we need to work on saying mama!

Taken by Grandpa B on Memorial Day.

The boy has not been wanting to take an afternoon nap lately. I decided to try putting him down later than usual yesterday. I took him for a walk about a 1/2 hour before I was going to try putting him down. He passed out at the very end of the walk. I was thankfully able to get him into his crib without waking up and then he slept for 2 hours! Woo Hoo! He hasn't slept that long for his afternoon nap in a couple months! He slept through a pretty loud storm, thunder, lighting and marble sized hail. I just hope he keeps this up! Long nap = happy boy!

Here is a picture of Owen still cookin 1 year ago today, 23 weeks pregnant. Sorry it's kind of dark. You can click on it to make it bigger. This is before we bought our living room furniture and there were no lamps in the room. Now we have one lamp! We should probably get some more. But hey, at least we have couches, end tables and a coffee table now. We're making progress!