Thriving 9 months

Brendan Robert Camp is just speeding along the highway of life. He's starting to understand verbal communication, crawling and rolling EVERYWHERE and getting into EVERYTHING! He stood up in his crib for the first time about a week ago. He is pulling up on everything and is quite strong. We have started to encounter some tantrums as he tests the parental boundries.

His favorite toy right now are his dinosaurs and one night he even fell asleep with the T-Rex. We also love swinging on the big tree out in front and watching bubbles float. We still read a book every morning after we eat and before we do anything else.

He is still nursing, and weighed 22.3 lbs., and was 30 inches. on his 9 mo. doctor's visit. He falls within the 90-95% for all his measurements. I was sure we has about 27 lbs.! I actually need some momentum to lift him into the cars in his car seat! I joke I need more arms and that he is certianly not getting lighter. According to Dr. Lichtsinn, he is well socialized, and healthy.

His favorite song is the Alphabet Song. He has eaten everything we have given to him so far with his two bottom teeth. so far, the only meat we have introduced is chicken. One morning, I made Lou breakfast in bed. Brendan woke up, Lou fell back asleep and when I came back in to bring coffee, Brendan was eating Lou's egg sandwich; there were eggs and bacon all over the bed and our little "prince" was eating the toast. I wish I could have grabbed the camera before waking Lou up again. It was great!

By the way, his name means Prince in Celtic.

We visited Gram twice this month in Tucson, saw my Grandma a few times and his great-grandparents, helped Mommy to sell numerous homes, went to the Farmer's market, visited Daddy's office twice, out to dinner a few times, and went to the zoo to name a few outings.

Great Grandparents Visit

Brendan was lucky enough to have all of his Great Grandparents over last week to play cards and spend time with him.


He also rocked the Chicago Bears onsie his Great Aunt Melissa sent us while he helped him Mom and Dad draft their fantasy football teams.