Brant is 9 months old!

To explain the pictures below I have to explain that a few months ago I started doing a point system for the kids and chores. So now they get fifty cents every time they earn 10 points....anyway. Mason has been saving up to buy a pez dispenser since we started and he finally had enough to buy one plus a package of refills. Anyway, if you look close in the picture you will see some of the fruits of his labors. Brant ate the orange ones....paper and all. Yum!




So, Brant is 9 months old today and I feel like he has grown up so much over the summer. Here is what he has been doing. Brant wasn't a big roller. He physically could do it since he was just tiny, but unless he was REALLY mad, he didn't use this form of movement much. He was pretty mad for a long time that he couldn't crawl because he soooooo wanted to play with Mia and Mason. The first form of movement he mastered was cruising (yes kinda out of order) at 7 months. Then he started crawling.....backwards at 7 1/2 months. Then fianlly at 8 months old he started crawling forwards...YAY! It looked funny because he used one knee and one foot to push himself, but now at 9 months he is crawling normally and pulling up on everything and cruising EVERYWHERE! Brant was a really fussy baby until I quit eating dairy products and now he is such a happy and smiley baby. People stop and smile at him all the time and say what a smiley baby he is. I love his fun and intense personality. I love the kissy noises he makes. I love that he uses his teeth to help him pull up on things. I love the way he says go go go all the time (sometimes in a whisper and sometimes very loud). I love his chubby cheeks. I love to watch him watch his siblings. I love watch him wrestle Mason. I just love this kid to pieces! Ok enough gushing....I'm done. But I reserve the right to be mushy again in three months.