Here you go, our son at 9 months. Good grief, we’re going to have to start planning a birthday part before we know it!
Hi, my name is Isaac and I'm 9 Months
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So Isaac is now 8 months old. It’s pretty crazy. In the last month he’s developed a whole lot of gross motor skills. Those include: blowing raspberries (you can’t get him to stop now), sitting up from his hands and knees, drinking from a sippy cup, crawling/scooting backwards, clapping and pulling up. He’s so ridiculously close to crawling you get frustrated for him watching him try. Oh, and we had to lower his crib mattress because he can pull up.
He’s an extremely curious boy with a strong grasp. Anything you’re holding is the most interesting thing in the world to him. And boy oh boy does he like “reading” the mail. Although he reads differently than most. Osmosis through the mouth I guess.
8 Months Old
So Happy Birthday Isaac!
This past weekend Robyn and Roger had a wedding to go to that the boys weren’t able to attend with them. So Erin and I (apparently) agreed to watch the boys for them.
At first it was going to be Erin with all three boys because I had a rugby game, but the game was rescheduled due to the other team not being able to field a team, so I was able to help her out. To say she was relieved would probably be an understatement.
When the boys got to our house the play room was immediately assaulted. As some of you may know, Isaac and I have been on a musical journey through the iPod, and Barrett decided he would be in charge of what songs we listened to.
What he didn’t realize was that it was on Brooks & Dunn and that was it. Which was fine because it didn’t let the music that little ears shouldn’t hear play. B&D are a safe choice.
As is the case with pretty much every time the boys come over, they instantly regressed in the play room.
Yes, that’s Hunter on the play mat that babies use for tummy time. What can you say, he enjoyed it.
The brothers also took turns (very well I might add) playing some basketball.
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Then, a very interesting thing happened.
Hunter started playing with Isaac and Erin,
While Barrett and I played a new version of “catch.” In our game we were passing a ball back and forth, but Barrett had to be on the letter I called out before I would throw it to him. Let me tell you, the kid knows his stuff. Then he changed it up a little and I would call the letter out and he would tell me what body part of his I had to hit. Don’t worry, the ball was nice and soft.
And, in our final act in the front room, I wore Barrett. Apparently when Barrett and Roger went camping they went hiking. A little ways in Barrett got tired and Roger had to carry him on his shoulders for two-ish miles. I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t sound like a ton of fun. So the other day, when Roger came by for something, we had him try on the Boba we bought to see what he thought. He liked it but wasn’t sure what Barrett would think.
Well, it seemed to be a hit. It was the first time I’ve worn him since he was a baby and could fit in the Moby.
We asked him if he would be okay with Daddy doing this to him when they went camping and he said yes, so victory us!
After we finished up in the front room it was quiet time in the living room watching movies. Hunter PASSED OUT on the love seat and Barrett chilled on the couch until Robyn and Roger got back from the wedding.
It was fun, but I informed Erin afterward that if she really wants three kids she shouldn’t let this happen very often.
I almost forgot to mention, Barrett the photographer showed up towards the end of the day (right before quiet time). Here’s his beautiful work.
So Isaac really, really wants to start crawling. He can get himself up into the crawling position, but then his legs slide out from under him or he just reaches for something, doesn’t move his legs, and belly flops.
But he has started doing something that is ridiculously cute.
He spins.
It’s gotten to the point that you put him in his crib to sleep, and by the time you hear him awake on the monitor he’s turned himself 180 degrees. It’s really quite amusing.
Ever since his 6 month birthday, Isaac has been trying out new foods. We’ve gone through bananas, pears, peaches, prunes, oatmeal, rice cereal, avocado, butternut squash and sweet potatoes. There may be more but that’s all I can think of right now.
It’s been a hit and miss excursion. Rice cereal wasn’t a big hit, prunes were a HUGE hit the first time and a somewhat hit after, bananas were a miss as finger food and a huge hit as mush.
Here’s his first semi-solid (rice cereal).
Here’s prunes
Perhaps some butternut squash?
Or pears?
Now some avocado…
And finally, peaches.
All in all it’s been a fairly successful start to his solid eating life. He gets a meal of solids a little before his nightly bedtime routine. Some nights he’s completely into food, some nights he’s not so fond of it, depends on the night. What he always loves, however, is his spoon. It’s one of his favorite toys.
Recently we’ve started Isaac on solids. I’ll have a whole other post about what he’s eaten so far, but that involves uploading lots of stuff to YouTube and a bit more in depth analysis, so we’ll start here.
We started Isaac off with rice cereal. It seems to be a staple for baby’s first food so we went with it. While he didn’t absolutely despise it, you could tell he was not too sure about non breast milk things being eaten. Not a big surprise since that’s all he’s had to eat for over 6 months. It wasn’t all bad though, he ate what we had (though probably half ended up on him in some form or fashion) and didn’t fuss too much.
After he finished his rice cereal we gave him the spoon to play with. We figure he’s going to be using utensils at some point in the future so he may as well get used to holding them and seeing how they work. Well, he’s going to have to learn how far into his mouth he can put a spoon because so far he has to be reminded every time that it does not go all the way in. Some day it will sink in. Until then we’ll just hope he doesn’t vomit (fingers crossed). But the spoon was a big hit, he played with it for probably 10-15 minutes until we decided it was time to clean him up and get ready for bed.
Since rice cereal we’ve branched out to sweet potatoes, avocado, oatmeal, pears, peaches and, most recently, prunes. But, as I said earlier, that’s to follow soon.
Until then, enjoy.
How times flies.
This Sunday our little fellow turned half a year old. I know they say that they grow up so fast, but it seems like hogwash until it’s actually happening. 6 months into his life he can roll from back to stomach and stomach to back (though he likes to forget how to do that), he’s babbling, laughing, smiling, cooing, jumping in his jumperoo, sitting up and goodness knows how many other things aren’t coming to mind right away.
That’s a long ways from this little guy.
So what does such a baby look like 6 months later? Like a little man.
Insane.
We celebrated by going to church to see our new Pastor’s first Sunday. It’s nice to have a permanent Pastor in place and it was even better to be back at the 11am service. What can I say, Erin and I just aren’t contemporary worship people the way it’s currently done. After church, Robyn, Roger (hey hey, someone actually had an afternoon off!), Barrett and Hunter came over for a “birthday” lunch. Erin whipped up some homemade macaroni and cheese and fried some chicken strips and we had a nice, healthy lunch with brownies and ice cream for dessert. Just to polish off the healthy, heart conscious meal, Roger brought some Shiner Spring Ale. It was delicious (all of it).
Later in the afternoon Isaac had his second taste of rice cereal (more on that soon) and followed that up with a Skype featuring Granny and Papa Schroeder. That lasted until my battery died (so about 5 minutes, as my computer informed me today that my battery is horrible and needs to be replaced).
All in all a great celebration of 6 months of life.
Now that Isaac is sitting up decently well, we decided it was time to put him in his high chair and see how things went there. Since he’s turning 6 months old this weekend (good grief!) we decided to start him on solids over the weekend and figured he needed some practice in the chair before he was sitting in it AND eating.
Erin had a tear or two sneak out when he was sitting in his chair. He’s not such a little baby any more, he’s growing up.
He did a great job his first time in the chair. He played with his toys while we had our waffles and sausage dinner (DELICIOUS!).
Yes, he’s a big time drooler still. That shirt was decimated by drool over the day. Good thing I put an undershirt on him. It was quick dad thinking, I know.
It’s almost like he knew what he would be doing in the chair. Before we could even put his toys in front of him to play with Isaac was already quick at work.
While we were taking pictures of Isaac in his high chair, Erin noticed that Isaac is starting to pose for the camera a little bit. Only 6 months old and he’s already figured out how to work the red carpet.
That’s all for now. I’ll leave you with a gallery of his pictures while I go off to play rugby and buy a putty scraper for the upcoming joy.
For Christmas we got a membership to the Houston Children’s Museum. Isaac had never been to the museum before since he wasn’t exactly old enough to do anything so it wasn’t worth the money, but I figured since we had the membership I’d introduce Isaac to the museum. And what better way for him to see how to fully enjoy the museum than going with Aunt Robyn and his cousins?
Answer: NONE.
Isaac slept a little long, so we got there after Robyn and the boys, but we wasted no time catching up with them. As soon as we got their Aunt Robyn wanted to see her nephew.
Isaac was so excited to see her and the boys that he pooped his pants. Thankfully, since it’s the CHILDREN’S Museum, the Men’s restroom had a changing table in it. One diaper change later and we were back at it. The nephews were doing what they do best, playing in the cars.
I didn’t get any of Barrett because he was always off somewhere else with Robyn making sure he didn’t get into any trouble. I got to chill with Hunter, mostly at either this ambulance or in the police car.
I don’t know how well you can see that, but another kid was “driving” when we got there so Hunter waited his turn by sitting in the back seat. He did a really great job waiting his turn and giving other kids a turn at driving the cars.
After a little while downstairs it was time to go upstairs to the Tot Spot. Now technically Barrett is too old to go in, but since Hunter is still young enough (for another year and a few months) he was allowed in under the condition that Robyn never let him out of sight. No problem with Barrett because he only wanted to do one thing really.
Meanwhile Hunter did what he knows best. He drove the other car, which brilliantly has two steering wheels. Hope they don’t want to go different directions!
When it was time for Hunter to share his spot in the car he wasn’t really thrilled about it, so Robyn and I put on our quick thinking cap and gave Hunter a job. Isaac had never seen the lights put in the wall before, maybe Hunter could show him how it was done? Well, CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!!
Isaac didn’t quite get it. He just wanted to put them in his mouth.
After watching the cousins play for a little bit, it was time for Isaac to go play in his little spot. There’s a place in the Tot Spot that has Bumbos and toys for little bitties like Isaac. He had a good time.
I didn’t really trust the toys around the floor since there was a sign saying something along the lines of “If you see a kid put a toy in their mouth put it in this bag” so I gave Isaac his Texas to play with while sitting in their Bumbo.
Then we did some standing/sitting on the mat they had. As you can see below , Isaac was getting pretty good at almost sitting on his own.
Shortly after this picture was taken I stood Isaac up to look at the pictures of babies that you see on the wheel behind him. Now Isaac LOVES other babies. He stares at them and smiles when we’re out, he smiles at the magical baby in the mirror and just loves everything about them. These babies, however, not so much. What’s awful about them is that all of the babies are sad or crying. None of them are smiling. Why would you do that?
After the Tot Spot it was back downstairs for a little while before everyone headed home for lunch and a nap. On the way out, however, we had to pass the cow, which Barrett and Hunter wanted to milk. Hunter wanted to ride it as well but that got squashed pretty quick.
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All in all it was a successful journey to the Museum. It should get even better as Isaac gets older and can play with more of the things in the Tot Spot. Pretty soon he’ll be walking around downstairs with the cousins playing in the cars.
It’s been coming for a while now, but today Isaac decided it was time. It was time to sit up on how own.
Now, I don’t mean he was laying on the ground and pulled himself into a seated position. What I mean is that Isaac was leaning against me and when I moved away from him he stayed. Granted he occasionally put his hand down to steady himself, but the kid was like a pro.
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What was especially great about the occasion is that he listened to me and did it while Erin was home. We had a discussion a while back where I informed him that, since Mom feels out of the loop already, he needs to wait until she’s around to achieve milestones. So far so good.
Isaac on Camera
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