9 Months Old!

Wow!  I can't believe another month has already come and gone.  Emerson is growing so fast I just can't take it.  I look back at old pictures from when he was first born and it's just crazy to me that he was once that small...and quiet haha.  Emerson is quite the little talker/screamer.  He likes to say mom and momma...except he thinks Jordan is mom which is not ok with me haha.  He tries to say dada but I don't think he quite understands what he's saying.  He says baba too but I think it's the same story, he just says it but doesn't know what it means.  He is quite the screamer these days too.  He likes to scream at the top of his lungs to get our attention or to just do it.  It's not that big of a deal unless we're sitting in church trying to take the sacrament and then he goes to town.  He's usually pretty good during church but he's been getting pretty restless lately so we have to bring lots of distractions with us.

Emerson is a very good eater!  Last month he would barely even touch solid foods but now he just scarfs them down.  He'll finish a whole container of food in about 5 minutes sometimes.  His favorite food right now is squash.  He eats that super fast.  He's still not the biggest fan of fruit but he's getting better with it.  He actually enjoys eating applesauce now.  He does really like the vegetables though.  Hopefully that continues as he gets a little older.

Emerson has 4 teeth that have fully popped through and 3 more that are really close behind.  Those ones will probably pop through within the next day or two.  After the first tooth on the top popped through, the other ones just started popping through like crazy.  Definitely not taking his time with the whole teething process.  We decided to go buy a baby toothbrush and toothpaste for him yesterday since he's got a lot of teeth now.  We brushed his teeth today for the first time and he sure seemed to enjoy it.  It was probably a really nice gum massage for those teeth that are so close haha.

Love those two cute little teeth on the bottom

Some of Emerson's favorite things to do lately are lay on the floor and move backwards and in circles (still not crawling forward just yet), enjoys spitting at me and Jordan, loves to play with Jordan when he comes home from work, he loves his bouncer and playing with his toys, and his most favorite thing of all time is taking his helmet off and getting in the bath.  He gets so excited to get in the bath that when he hears the water running, he starts flailing and going crazy trying to get in.  He's also learned what it means now when I start draining the water from the bath.  As soon as I pull the plug, he pushes all his toys aside and reaches up for me to pick him up and take him out.  It's so funny that he knows what that means now.  He has learned how to grab mine and Jordan's hands and put them under his arms when he wants to be picked up.  It's pretty cute haha.

He loves sitting on the floor and playing with all his toys

We went to the doctor last week to have Emerson's head measured and he's measuring really well.  Hopefully that means we won't have to have the helmet for as long as they originally told us he would need it.

As of a week or two ago, Emerson weighs 20 pounds but I'm pretty sure it's more than that now.  That kid is heavy!  He grew out of 6-9 month clothes really fast and is already up in the 12 and 12-18 month clothes.  Makes it a little harder for us to buy clothes for him because he wears them once and then is already ready for the next size up.  What a little chunker haha.

We took Emerson to Yellowstone for the first time last weekend and he seemed to enjoy it.  He really liked getting out of his carseat and being able to look at all the different things and places we stopped at.  He started to get grumpy when we were about 20 minutes from home but other than that, he did a pretty good job with it.  It was really fun being able to take him there.  Me and Jordan hadn't really been since before I got pregnant so it was nice being able to go again.

Emerson enjoyed being pushed around by his little buddy Karson

I think that's just about it for the Emerson update.  He is healthy and growing well but way too fast for my liking ;)  I'm excited to see what this next month has in store for us.  Hopefully some crawling forward instead of just backwards and in circles haha.