9 Months

WOW! I'm beside myself at how quickly these months are going by now a days! Before I know it I will be writing about his first birthday. Keifer is growing daily and I'm having a hard time keeping up with all the new things that change moment to moment. The night Keifer turned 8 months old he said Dada. As hard as that was for me to admit his first word was Dada. Although it softened it some when two weeks later he said Momma! Learning those two words were his biggest accomplishment this past month.

Keifer's Stats: Weight 15 lbs. 2.5oz.

Size 2 diapers

Clothes 3 months and 3-6 months

I'm still making Keifer's homemade purees. However I've tried pureeing chicken and it just didn't work as well so I buy baby food that have meat in them. So about 90% of what Keifer's eats is homemade and fresh which I love and he does too! He knows when the blender is going that the noise means it's time to eat and he gets excited and screams and flaps his arms. He is a great eater and not picky at all!!! I love it! Here is a list of what he has ate so far: Bananas (one of his favorites) prunes (which surprisingly he likes) rice cereal (we don't give him this anymore) apples, peaches, sweet potatoes, sweet peas, chicken, turkey, brown rice, yellow squash and butternut squash, carrots, avocado (and guacamole) re-fried beans, zucchini (another favorite) blueberries, and scrambled eggs

Keifer is pulling himself up to a kneel

Pulling himself to a stand

Keifer's Playroom

As you can see in the Christmas pictures, Keifer got a ton of toys! He loves playing with all his toys and though I was happy he was having fun I was getting tired of toys invading my living room and bedroom. We have a "formal living room" in the front of our house and in the 4.5 years that we have lived here we have never done anything with it. So I was claiming the space and setting up residence for a play room. I had it pictured in my head and it was time to make it come to life.
For Christmas I had bought Keifer a set of foam letters to put in the living room while he was playing since we have hardwood floors and I didn't want him to get hit his head and get hurt. My plan was to put them down while he was playing and pick them back up when he was done. Luckily, I didn't have to do that with a play room set aside now. I ran to Target and bought 3 more packages to lay out on the floor. While I was there I saw this inflatable ball pit and thought that would go perfect! So I left with my 3 packages and ball pit ready to come home and get to work. I was so excited that I couldn't wait until the morning to put Keifer in it. Since then he loves it and we spend hours a day in there playing and listening to his Veggie Tales CD player.

Part Fish...

Sometimes I wonder about Keifer. He loves the bath so much that I'm not sure it's even normal. I know I have posted about his bath times a few times before but I thought I would update the newest thing he likes to do in the tub. Last time I posted bath time pictures he was in his whale bathtub. I think it was around 6 months old when I started putting him in the tub without a bath and just letting him sit in it. He did so good, just would sit there and play with his toys. Until recently he bent over and got on all fours in the tub. I was a little nervous because I didn't want him to face plant into the water face first but he seemed happy so I let him continue. Then he laid down and started moving his legs and arms like he was "swimming." Keifer would just go back and forth from one side to the other like he was swimming laps. Since he figured this out, it is all he wants to do during bath time now. I put him in sitting up and immediately he flips on his stomach and starts "swimming." He will stay in there playing until the water gets cold. I go to get him out and he cries because he is not ready to get out yet.

 Showing Mom what he was playing with... more like chewing on

8 Months

With December being such a busy month I have to say that this month probably flew by the quickest. We had a lot going on and before I knew it January 9th was here and Keifer was another month older. However this time it was a little bit different. No, not because he was 8 months but because it was his first "month birthday" in a new year! We brought in the New Year at home playing games with my sister, Trinity and Jason's sister, Abby. New Year parties are not the same with a baby but it's ok because Jason and I have never been big on going out for New Years. Now that 2012 is here Keifer has lived in two years and the hardest for me to get use to.... This is the year he will turn 1!!! But not quite yet. We still have some fun and exciting months coming up including this one.

Keifer is still in size 2 diapers, just a few 0-3 months clothes, majority of 3 months clothes and a few 3-6 month clothes. He has gained almost a whole pound from 7 months weighing in at 14 lbs. 10oz. I didn't take his length this time because he would never lay still long enough for me to get it.

Keifer now has his 2 front teeth and 2 cutting through on his right bottom side. Keifer is army crawling, getting up on all fours and pulling himself up to a kneeling position.Everything must go in his mouth. (I think because of teething) This past month of being 7 months old turning into 8 months has probably been one of the hardest months I've had with him since he was going through his regression at 3 months old. Maybe it was a growth spurt or the teething but he has not been a good sleeper this month. His morning naps were usually good but he would only take an afternoon nap every 2-3 days when he exhausted himself enough to. Because of no afternoon naps the nights were long. Instead of his normal 7-7:30 bedtime we pushed his bedtime up to 6-6:30 and some days even as early as 5:30 because he was whooped by being awake since morning nap. He has been waking up between 12-2 to eat and again around 5-6 then waking up for good around 6:30-7:30 To be perfectly honest I wasn't sad to see this month go! I miss my sleep and Keifer reminded me that we are not ready for number two. (Not that we were thinking we were) I was ready for a fresh start so I gladly put on his 8 month sticker and looked forward.

 Unfortunately Keifer got his first battle scar. Balboa is jealous of him and waited for the perfect opportunity when Keifer crawled past him he jumped up and bit him under his right eye. That is the mark in this picture. It looks a lot better here and the scar only lasted about a week and a half. We were blessed that he didn't get his eye just a few inches higher. Needless to say Balboa is not inside while Keifer is crawling anymore.

 Keifer loves playing with his books so I snapped these few pictures after his 8 month photos

Christmas with the Harrisons

Christmas morning after Keifer wore himself out playing with all his toys we laid him down for his morning nap while Jason and I got dressed for the day. Around 1:00 we headed over to my parent's house to do Christmas #3, by now Keifer was tired of opening gifts but still enjoyed playing with what was in the gift after Momma opened it.

 Keifer's first dollar...

 ...to put in his first piggy bank from his Aunt Trin

 Sporting Daddy's hat

 He has come to LOVE this Noah's Ark, he chews on all the little animals but his favorite to chew on his Noah's head

 His first Cowboy boots

 My Mom, Dad and I looked at these shoes when I was 6 month pregnant

 All these toys and the bottled water still gets his attention

 Keifer's hand print horse

Dad's seat covers for his truck

 Mom's curtains that Trin and I bought her and I sewed

We had a wonderful Christmas and I wish I would have taken more pictures of people lounging around but I didn't. I bought Jason a new grill for Christmas and hid it in my parent's garage and I forgot to take a picture of it and Trinity got my Dad a new flat screen 55 inch TV that I didn't get a picture of. After gifts we watched a little TV while LaDonna cooked us a delicious meal!