9 month stats

height 30 inches (92%ile)
weight 21 lbs 10 oz (70%ile)
head 48 cm (92%ile)

gummy no more

Ok, he's still gummy, but a little less so. He cut his bottom right tooth! It's barely showing through and I had to bribe him with a spoon and cheerios to get a look, but it is there.

UPDATE 11/26: the tooth needed a buddy. His left bottom has broken through as well.

The O

Presenting Elliot Houdini and his magic O.


This is an ordinary O - nothing fancy.


No tricks. See?


You think it's in here, don't you?

You've been fooled! It's in his tummy.

Family

Chad's parents left yesterday after a week+ visit. We had a fantastic time with them. Elliot wasn't sold on the idea at first, but he figured it out eventually. His separation anxiety comes and goes. They got some Mim and Pepere time with Elliot and also found time to cook and eat and even do a bit more exploring of Seattle. They are fantastic house guests. No 3-day rule applies here.

Though by the looks of Elliot's face, you'd wonder what she might be feeding him.


I think the handmade teddy bear helped:


Elliot is particularly attached to both Pepere and Krishna. Maybe he's a guys' guy.

Don't they all look sharp? I promise there was no dress code.

Addiction

We thought that a day out with Sandra and Krishna would be innocent fun.

It started well:


Then Elliot fell in love. With daddy's addiction:

That is the face of the stock going up, don't you think?

cursed

Within two days of the previous post we regressed. Argh. It's gotten a bit better since then and we're nearing the 7-8 lovely hours again. Elliot seems to respond to the bedtime cues:. he hangs out with mom and dad, gets into his jammies, gets nursed and rocked and hears a few (very off-key) lullabies. He gets put into his crib when he looks sleepy but isn't yet asleep. A few weeks ago when I'd lay him down he'd stay in that semi-awake state, eyelids a bit droopy. Now he tends to go wide-eyed as soon has he's in the crib.

It's no wonder that there is so much literature and so many widely varying opinions about sleep out there. I think I secretly believed that because Chad and I are such sound sleepers and because our parents told us what wonderful sleepers we were as kids, that somehow those perfect sleep genes would be Elliot's too. It turns out that the school of thought I belong to is that babies have to learn to go to sleep by themselves and that just takes time. A Lot of time.

Giggles

This may be the best sound in the world.


laughing from elliot on Vimeo.