William is babbling. He learns a new consonant and sticks with it for a few days, saying it over and over as he crawls through the house. It was a nice treat for him to be on "Mama" for my first Mothers Day! He said it over and over for me. What a sweetie! This month he has learned his B's, D's, and M's for sure. Hard to keep up with all the babbling. He does it the most when he is chewing on something or in full concentration walking around the couch.
At the end of the month, William switched to spitting as his "consonant". He runs his mouth like motor all around the house. It is super adorable.
At 9 Months, William got to try new foods. Up until this point, he has been an astonishingly good eater. However, we have now learned he HATES broccoli. The first spoonful I put in his mouth, he made a disgusted face, let it sit in his mouth for a little bit and then spit it right back out. On the second bite I thought he was going to gag and throw up. The magical touch? Banana! Bananas now go inside everything. Broccoli, Asparagus, Green Beans....Will dislikes them all, so we get bananas or apples or sweet potatoes to cover the taste up.
William also went through a phase of shaking his head this month while he was eating. It was so cute.
And then Daddy made him laugh hysterically during dinner time:
As I was making the asparagus for William, he played with it on the floor. It was unlike any of his toys. It felt funny in his hands and rolled out of them in such an odd way. He played with his asparagus for a LONG time.
William also learned to drink water from a straw. Gran Gran got him to drink a lot of water that way! Although he wasn't too thrilled about the taste of lemon in it, haha.
We are constantly baby proofing our house. Updates are made as we learn what Will can get in to. This is why we had to remove all the doorstops in the house...he actually pulls off the little rubber end.
William learned to throw a ball this month. He gets so excited by our reaction when he does it.
William went to his first waterpark. This park is right by our house and we just randomly drove by it one day. It is a great find! He is going to love it when he learns to walk. There are swings, slides, jungle gyms, and this water park. It has the nice rubber floor around the park as well.
William loves to climb all over us. He uses us as a jungle gym, landing right on his head sometimes. I'm getting bruises everywhere from him climbing on me so much.....but its worth it!
This is how William gives me kisses. He opens wide and presses his mouth against you.
Will got his own sunglasses for the summer days coming up. He's not a huge fan of anything on his face or head. But once you walk outside, he zones out in the sun and you can do anything to him....haha.
A typical day with Daddy....watching him play his xbox
Will started to be interested in the stairs at the first start of May. By the end of the month he finally tried to climb them and went all the way to the top!
William gained a whole pound in the last month. He is up to 19.8 pounds. He is outgrowing all his 9 month clothing, fitting 12 month clothing at this point. I think it is more the clothes than the size of Will, based on his percentiles.
William made a huge accomplishment this month. He learned to crawl forward! He is now everywhere and into everything. He has learned to pull himself up using anything...including the wall. He has learned to test the stability of surfaces before he using them to pull himself up. He holds onto the couch and walks along it to reach things sitting on the seat. He now prefers to be standing, so he crawls from one standing point to another.
Here is the day he first learned to crawl forward. We played fetch with him :)
But William only does enough to get within reach of his toy.
One week later, Will is a crawling fool!
And he is crawling in Daddy's footsteps
We've lifted everything up out of his reach the best we can. However, there are still a ton of cords for the TV and Computer. For now, we gate him into an area surrounded by pillows. Then if we walk out of the room, he just hangs out on the wall (or the pillow).
Other cute things he's done this month.
We caught him with his Poo Face. You'll know it when you see it.
He started saying Yum! after every bite when eating.
And some random cute photos of Will throughout April:
As everyone may remember, John and I got married on the same day as his Grandparents Bill and June Noell. On April 26, they celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary! We drove up to Little Rock to celebrate with the family.
As an anniversary gift for us, Pops and Nana watched Will for us for 3 days so we could have some alone time.....they really just needed an excuse to have Will all to themselves! No one can get enough of little William.
