Nine Months

Caden turned 9 months on Sunday; I can't believe he's that old.  I took him to the doctor today for his nine month well visit.  He is 23 lbs 6 oz (90th percentile) and 29 1/4" (75 percentile), and his head is still off the charts big.  We pulled out the tunnel that we gave him for Christmas this weekend.  Here is a video of him crawling through it.

Swimming and standing in the bath

The past week has been rough.  Caden and I both felt pretty bad last weekend.  I took him to the doctor on Monday, and he has ear infections in both ears.  I feel much better now, but he is still recovering.  Unfortunately, Caden and I had to cancel our trip to Houston to see his cousins this week, but hopefully, we'll get to head down there soon.

Because he's been pretty grumpy this week, I haven't taken any pictures or videos.  He still loves bath time.  Here is a video from about three weeks ago of him "swimming" in the tub.

He loves pulling himself up to stand everywhere.  He's started doing it repeatedly when he's in the bath tub.  Here he is last week standing up and sitting down at the end of his bath.

Crawling up the step

We haven't made any real progress with our house yet.  We're waiting for the insurance company to approve the estimate.  Hopefully, we can get the ball rolling on a few things next week.

Caden is getting much more agile every day.  He's crawling everywhere; he can now climb up the step out of the living room.  & he's starting to cruise, but he's still pretty cautious cruising.  Here are a few pictures of Caden playing this week.  He just loves these cups.

He loves playing on the outside of his jumperoo now.

He really likes playing with spoons, spatulas, and tupperware that I give him while I'm in the kitchen.  These distract him for a few minutes, but he really prefers pulling out drawers.  Here he is chewing on a spatula earlier this week.

Here's a video of Caden crawling up the step out of the living room a few days ago.

Another crawling video

The clean up company finally took the fans away at 8pm on Sunday night.  It's so nice to not have the noisy fans in half the house anymore.  Now we're just waiting on estimates from the insurance company as we're trying to figure out exactly what we want to do.

He's getting more comfortable crawling everyday.  Here's a video of him slowly meandering across the living room earlier this week.  He's much faster when I have my back turned than when I'm taping him.  The red light is still quite a distraction to him.

Clapping and crawling

Here are a few videos from the past week.  He's really trying hard to clap.  He'll sometimes clap when I sing to him, but mostly he just claps randomly.  He has also really started moving.  He's been so close for a few weeks.  Now that the craziness of cousins running around has subsided, he's ready to move.  It's still kind of a combination of crawling on all fours and army crawling.  It's been hard to tape him, since we're quarenteened to the office and guest bedroom due to the noisy fans throughout the rest of the house.

Here he is clapping.

And here's a video of him crawling.  Because it's so dark in the office, it's pretty hard to see him.  He hasn't quite yet figured out that he can take off anywhere; he really just crawls if he wants a certain toy (or my phone is the best bait to get him moving).  Yesterday, he crawled to my phone and when he got to it, he threw it away from him and crawled to it again and continued to play this game with himself for a few minutes.  I thought that it was hilarious that he's so used to me moving the phone farther away from him that he just decided to do it himself.



Juillerat Christmas

The day after Christmas we headed over to Tyler to spend Christmas with my family.  We had such a good time seeing everyone, and I know Caden enjoyed seeing his cousins.  Here are a few pictures.

James and I hanging out.

Caden with a new toy.

Caden playing with Jackson and Abby.

Much to our dismay, our visit was cut short by our house flood.  The pipe leak in our bathroom has now been fixed; the plumber said it was one of the worst pipe leaks he's ever seen.  Now we just have to wait for everything to dry, so the appraisor can come assess the total damage.  We have about 15 big fans blowing in our living room, hallway, Caden's room, master bedroom, master bathroom, and master closet.  Here are a few pictures.

Here's one of the fans and dehimidifier in our bathrrom.

Most of the baseboards in the affected areas have been removed.

We're not sure if the carpet will need to be replaced or not, but we do know that the hardwoods in the hallway are ruined.  It's hard to tell from this picture, but they are completling buckling.

Eight Months

Caden turned eight months old on Thursday.  His measurements on Thursday were 23 lb, 3 oz and 28 1/4".  Here's a picture of him in the bath earlier this week.