9 months old - really?

Gage is 9 months old - really 9 months has already passed since the day he was born.  Sometimes that feels like "No way really?" - Other times it feels like "Its only been 9 months?".  So what is up with Gage you ask?  He is still just about the cutest baby ever only tying with Lyla when she was a baby.  He is still trying really hard to walk.  He is into the pushing anything he can around the house to practice walking with.  We do have a walking toy, but he prefers the shoe basket, a laundry basket, or of course his big sis who will hold his hands and walk him around the house.  One of the funniest things about Gage is that he HATES it when you leave the room that he is in!! BUT, he can totally ditch you and it's totally fine.  I can't tell you how many times I find myself sitting on the floor in the living room watching him - when suddenly he isn't there.  Where is he?  His top picks are the laundry room, my bathroom and closet (which houses MJ's food and water - so fun for Gage!), and Lyla's room.  

Took some 9 month pics in the front yard.

Oh those bright blue eyes and blonde hair - love them!  He looks like his Uncle Tyler.

My lil' Tree Hugger!

As any of you who read my blog know that Gage is sick kinda often - sometimes it feels like all the time.  Recently we had another issue with illness - that being tonsillitis (again!).  Gage has also decided that he no longer wanted to drink formula so I started letting him drink Lactaid milk instead.  When I took him to the Dr for the tonsillitis (did I mention - again!) she didn't like this at all and said if he wouldn't drink formula then we should do goats milk.  Well come to find out after a few days of Lactaid and a few days of goats milk - Gage has a milk allergy.  Not like can't breath allergy, it just gives him a bad belly ache, ear ache, fever, and a runny nose.  Oh well.  So, I put him on a different and cheaper formula and he is doing really great on it - in fact we haven't been sick for a little while.  Hooray!  Oh and at the Dr's office Gage weighed 20lb 4oz.  Gage is also mostly wearing 12 month clothes and I have no idea on his shoe size (because I never put shoes on him), but I think around a 2 or 3.


Sippy cups!!  I love sippy cups and I'm so looking forward to the day when bottles are gone.  We are close!  Gage only uses a sippy cup during the day, and he gets a bottle before bed.  At one those bottles are going in the trash - never to be seen in my house again!  Gage also eats like a growing boy.  We have 3 meals a day, and he mooches whatever he can from our plates as well.  I think he would rather have the real stuff.


Toys!!  What baby doesn't love toys?  By toys of course I mean everything else in the house and will sometimes play with the actual baby toys.  Gage's favorite non toys:  pots-pans-wooden spoon, shoe basket, toilet paper, stacked cd's, Lyla's ZuZu pets (with or with out her) etc.  Gage also loves to play anything that Lyla is playing.  If she is coloring he is coloring (he understands it too, knows how to hold the marker, and how to get it to work on paper), if she is playing blocks he is playing blocks (we call him Godzilla Gage, because his playing is destroying what has been built), if she is playing babies, barbies, and puzzles - well so is Gage.  Lyla is very patient with him, and only seldom will she play in her room with the door closed leaving Gage out.  Gage loves being outside, if the door to the backyard is open he is outside.  He will push around the mini 4 wheeler (with Lyla on it), he will play in the grass, he will play with MJ's dog toys, and he will eat leaves!  He does play with his toys sometimes as well.  His favs are the music stage, little trucks, balls (he has got quite a good arm for throwing them), and he has a favorite book: Little Quack Loves Colors.  His eyes light up when he sees the book, and he loves it being read to him.  I will be buying more of the Little Quack collection for sure.

He don't need no gym to build muscles.

The music stage.

Seriously he played with a medicine syringe and dip bowel for like 30 minutes.

Playing with Lyla.

Helping Dad hang a shelve.

Annoying?: Are you allowed to consider a baby annoying?  Well Gage has a quirk that is annoying - he keeps biting Lyla.  Really he keeps biting her feet.  She will be sitting on the couch and he will be on the floor and to get her attention because he either wants to play with her or because she is eating something he wants - he bites her feet. Ugh!  


Teething:  They haven't all appeared but we are currently cutting 4 teeth - yes 4.  One on the bottom and 3 up top.  He really is quite good for how much I'm sure it sucks.  Hopefully they will finish cutting soon. 

So Gage is growing up, and seems like he is one smart kid.  He can say Mama, Dada, Lyla (by say Lyla I mean yell).  He points to what he wants and will say "that" - he does this when he wants juice.  I'm always amazed since the day he was born that he just seems to - get stuff - if that makes sense.  It's like he knows how to do everything and what everything is about he just has to get the rest of his self to do it.  I've always thought of him as an old soul stuck in a babies body - we will have see as he grows up I guess.