9 months old!

Jared is now 9 months old - he's been out exploring the world as long as he was growing inside of me!

Jared loves pulling himself up to standing on everything and anything. He does laps around our coffee table (sometimes more than 20 laps a day!), our microwave kitchen cart (the chips had to be moved or would be crushed to tiny pieces), everything! He even scales the walls now to get from one place to another. He greatly prefers moving to his right (Steve says that he is getting ready for NASCAR), but will move to the left if tempted by something really good (like a remote.) I am very happy that most of the time he gets himself back down to the floor carefully and gently.

He also loves gliding around the apartment. He started out with both hands on a flat object, like the mirror or a book, and would push himself around the apartment. But now he glides around with silly things like Craisin bags and stuffed animals. Although he has now started pushing his truck around the apartment with one hand, so it looks like he is playing with the truck.

Jared also likes the music and sounds from his toys. He loves his Elmo phone, Elmo, Cookie Monster piano, musical key, monkey, and the activity board with songs on his baby fence.

My mom came down to watch Jared this weekend. Steve and I have signed the contract on the house, but this weekend, we met with a financial guy and had our home inspection. It was really nice to be able to concentrate on the meetings and not worry about what Jared was getting into! The home inspection went pretty well in the fact that there were no big surprises. The house was built in 1978, and has not seen any major updates, so everything is kinda old and worn. Except the windows, which were pretty nice. We are planning to go ahead with the process to get the house. I took some pictures while we were there, and will post them when I can.

I also have new pics of Jared - these will be the last pics that I will add into the 6-9 month link. I'll have to start a new link soon! :)