9 Months Old

Wow, can you believe our little man is already nine months old. 6-9 months is my absolute favorite baby stage. It's when we get to see their little personalities developing, they interact with others and they are starting to move and explore their world.


Here is what Nixon has been up to the past few months:


Weight: 17lbs, 6 oz
Height: TBA
Teeth: He now has 4 teeth (cut them all in month 8). On the top he has cut his two lateral incisor teeth first, so it looks like he has fangs!
Little Mover: He has just started to crawl, although rolling is still his preferred method of getting to what he desires. He dislikes sitting, if I put him in the sitting position on the floor he wiggles until he is lying down and then just starts rolling.
Food: He loves feeding himself. He has outgrown his sensitivity to dairy and is now able to enjoy things like cheese, yogurt and milk. Yesterday he was feeding himself little pieces of grilled cheese sandwich, which he enjoyed immensely.
Favorites: He love playing with his big brother's toys. In fact he's quite displeased if you give him a baby toy.
Signing: He has started to wave hello and goodbye sometimes. We are starting to work on some other basic baby signs, as we did with the other boys.

We are so blessed to have yet another beautiful, healthy little boy in our family. Here are a few pictures I took of him on his 9 month birthday. I know being his mommy I'm a bit bias, but I think he is such a cutie.

Vampire Baby

Our Easter Adventure

Over the Easter weekend our family, along with Dave's parents, took a trip to visit Dave's Grandparents. It was a lot of travelling for only 2 1/2 days of visiting, but the boys did great. They are little road trippers in the making! (which makes their dad very happy because he loves road trips). Here are a few highlights of our trip.

6:30am- all loaded in the van and excited to head out on our journey.

Lunch and time to run around at the train museum in Revelstoke

Grandpa Andrus and Nixon at the museum

On the Saturday afternoon ,we went to Dave's grandparents condo for a visit. Grandma Andrus had a Easter egg hunt planned for the boys, which we decided to do on the lawn outside the building. We all loaded up into the elevator to head down. The elevator door shut, but not all the way, and the elevator would not go down. We pressed the help button but no one answered. After ringing the alarm for a while, one of the resident heard us and went to find help. The resident was on the phone with elevator maintenance company trying to solve the problem, but they were not having much luck. So there we were, 6 adults, 2 preschoolers and a baby (who was screaming by that point) trapped! Dave had sent a text to his cousin Eric telling him we were stuck. Eric sent a text back asking if we needed help. Dave replied and said that someone was working on it, but that text never went through, so Eric called the fire department. They were able to pry the door open and finally we were free after almost an hour of waiting. The firefighters then invited the boys to come down and take a look at their trucks. It was the perfect ending to what was a bit of a stressful event for them.

Dawson getting a lesson on fire safety

Finally time for egg hunting!

Sugar high????

Great Grandma & Nixon

Great Grandpa and Grandma with the boys