Charlie is 9 Months Old!!!!

Highlights from Charlie's 9th month:

• He says "mah-mah" on command. Melts my heart! He also does quite a bit of babbling and squealing.
• He is experimenting with his voice and likes to gasp as he sucks his breath in. He also does a fair amount of screaming and screeching like a baby dinosaur.
• When he gets angry, his cry is very piercing. It sounds like a grown woman screaming.
• Charlie has a new favorite food: yogurt!
• He's crawling! Chachi finally put it all together and is a speed demon crawler. His knees and ankles are always black from crawling around on the floor.
• He is starting to cruise the furniture a bit. He will let go of one object and cling to one nearby. He is VERY pleased with himself about the whole thing.
• The third tooth it making its breakthrough. Top left middle.
• Dude attended his first trebuchet competition.
• Charlie got to take his first trip to mama's favorite place: The Pumpkin Patch.
• This dude loves his dad like no other baby has.
• He is ALL boy. He is into anything that moves: dogs, birds, running kids. And, he LOVES balls. He bats them around the house and then chases after them.

He's the number one lover man in his particular postal district.

He likes to tickle the ivories.

Showing off his new skillz. His favorite destination is the bathroom, where he attempts to climb into the toilet.

Charlie usually sits in his saucer and plays while the family eats dinner. That is, after Daddo feeds him on the table top in his Bumbo.

Dude loves to hang out in his saucer outside with his Daddo.

Another favorite destination is the fireplace hearth. The hard brick and heavy wrought iron grate are particularly attractive.

Chach loves to tear down my stack of magazine recipes and scatter them about the kitchen. As you can see, he is rather pleased with himself.

At the trebuchet competition.

A perfect day for the pumpkin patch at Underwood Family Farms!

My dudes.

A pensive moment

Our little family

Oh.my.gosh. Can you get any cuter?

Yes, he can!

Just one more.

Or two.

Last one.

C'mon! This kid just can't take a bad picture.

Hey, Huck Finn! How's that straw taste. Chachi hangin' out at the haystack at the end of the VERY hard corn maze.