9 months

Owen is 9 months old and he had his check-up yesterday. He is 29.5" long and 23 1/2 lbs - both put him in the 90th percentile! He is doing pretty much everything he should be as well as a few other things except crawling. He supports his weight so well on his feet and stands as if he could take off any minute that the doctor said she thinks he may go straight to walking and skip the crawling, we'll see...
Anyway, some things he's doing now

• waving to everyone - hi and bye and he responds with a wave as well as initiates waving himself
• clapping hands for "yay," when someone says, "clap your hands," and in imitation of others
• he "dances" by shaking his little body when you say "dance dance dance"
• he scrunches up his nose and breathes really fast and loud (he makes it a back and forth game if you respond by imitating him)
• he sits and reaches for stuff all around him and then after grabbing it, pulls himself back to sitting position
• he babbles with lots of sounds and syllables and I'm still waiting for "mama"
• he laughs with a really big belly laugh when tickled and seems to be ticklish almost everywhere - feet, thighs, arms, belly
• turns his head to the side to look at stuff and is interested in looking at and investigating EVERYTHING
• isolates his pointer finger and tries to poke stuff
• tries to grab little things with one or two fingers and his thumb
• eating slightly chunkier stuff
• takes sips of water from a water bottle held by mama
• is much better at napping during the day - yay!!
• slightly better at sleeping at night - yawn

These are all of the things I can think of right now. I'm sure he'll be doing something else new tomorrow as it seems that he develops or perfects a new skill in a matter of 24 hours. We can't believe he's 9 months old and that his first birthday is around the corner. I have to say that we are so surprised at how fast time has flown by and we are trying so hard to make it slow down with no luck. Well, I'll try to post new pictures again soon. Ta-ta for now!