Our little Timmy is now 9 1/2 months old! It's so amazing how quickly time feels to have flown...he does so much now, and I'm just in awe...it just doesn't seem like that long ago that I was holding my non-existant baby bump, thinking I'm gonna be a mom...wow! He's been crawling, standing, and babbling to his little hearts content...and I know it won't be long until he starts walking on his own. How incredible. He's 22lb and 31"...which puts him in the 74th percentile for weight and 99th percentile with height! He's certainly not tall because of me...but I'm hoping he gets my awesome metabolism. He's still our toothless-wonder, but since I'm still nursing, no teeth is actually optimal for me. He's been saying "dadada" since Father's Day (how cool of a gift is that?!?) and just the other day started saying "mamama"...I haven't heard it, but Drew swears! :)
The heat has been a struggle. Drew and I always went without a cooling system in the summer...just strategically placed fans and opened windows in the late evenings. But Timmy's bedtime comes long before window-opening time...so we caved and got him an air conditioner. It's been a nightmare...ordered one from Amazon which sat on our dining room floor for a month until we decided it was time to install...then we needed an electrician to come install an outlet...then we realized the window we wanted was obstructed by an exhaust pipe outside...so then we moved the ideal window to the nursery, since that is the location of the person in dire need of AC...we finally go to open the box on our dining room floor, only to find that they sent us the wrong one, which was much too big for our windows...AHH!! It took a few weeks, but we finally have everything situated and our little baby furnace has some AC.
We took TJ to my family reunion the other day at Loon Lake...discovered he's not much of a water baby. I was really hoping he would be...since it's such a cheap way to cool him off...but the second his little toes touched water, he started crying and clawing at me to get back up. Thought it was kinda cute, really. He's also on the timid side, like mom. He stares at people and it takes him a good while before he'll warm up to them and smile affectionately at anyone. I really don't want him to grow up being painfully shy like I was...I mean, in the end, everything has worked out for me...but I remember some really lonely days in there. Even the family reunions are tough for me, because I'm not really close to any of my cousins. They all go to church and live a slightly different lifestyle...they're all nice people, but not having that common ground doesn't help...so I did no better than Timmy at our reunion...eh.
I'm sure I'm getting a little ahead of myself in assuming he has my character flaws...but I think I'm going to try to join a Mommy & Me group, just to get him associated with other babies. Hell, maybe I'll even make a friend...lately it feels as if I don't have any. Two of my good friends are pregnant for the first time, so I understand that they're busy and exhausted. I guess I just thought that me being pregnant was going to be the most ostracizing time for me...but it's actually been since I had Timmy that I feel more on the outskirts...hmm. Think I'll drop that topic, cause it's starting to bum me out. Haha!
Honestly, life is good. We have a trip planned out for October to take our son to meet Drew's family in New York. Excited and nervous about taking him on a day long airplane trek...if he's anything like me, he'll love it...if he's anything like his dad, he'll hate it! It's gonna be a toss up! :)
Standing Man
Crawling Like Crazy
Look Ma, no teeth!
Admiring his pool from a safe distance.
Like a little grown up!
Checkin out the garden.
At the lake with Momma.
Wearing sunscreen like a warrior!
Papa and his cub.
This was after all the crying and water drama...he's tired.
Corn's out-growing him!
Nappin on dad. :)
