9 Month Stats

It’s the last day of 2011… and I’m getting Nate’s 9 month stats up on the blog just 27 hours before he turns 10.  I’ll aim to be more timely next year.

Weight: 22 lbs 3.4 oz: 76.30% (down from 85.65%)
Height: 2′ 4.5″: 59.91% (down from 90.85%)
Head Circumference: 45.5cm: 56.72% (up from 53%)

It appears, based on the data, that Natesy is now rollier than he is pollier.  I’m pretty sure this is just the calm before the storm.

He’s now a super speedy all-fours crawler.  Grandma can no longer refer to him with her politically incorrect description of his previous method of transport.  You should see him when he hears Jakey coming full-force from another room.  He either gets really excited and rushes to see what all the raucous is, or he turns and crawls for his life.  For good reason.

Based on this new level of activity, you’d think he’d be slimming down, but there’s been another turn of events.  Mr. Bananas Only Clamp-Lips now opens his little birdie mouth when anything resembling a spoon enters his airspace.  I was gearing-up to donate the exotic baby food medleys to a holiday food drive: banana, beet and blueberry?  Maybe for some unconventional, extreme-sport loving baby.  And broccoli, peas and pear?  I’m pretty sure a little pear will not be enough to mask the flavor of an actual vegetable.

We don’t really know what happened.  I’d like to take credit for some kind of grueling food training regimen or parental culinary miracle, but alas, I can’t.  His food switch flipped and now he likes it all.  He still does the Nate-shudder at the first bite of something new, but I fed him tuna salad today without incident.  Sometimes he’ll store up bites in his little squirrel cheeks, but those chubby fists can’t seem to shove cubes of pumpkin bread in fast enough.

Up next: locating his sleep switch.