Nine Months Already?!?

I know it sounds cliche, but truly where does the time go? It seems like just moments ago, Callen was a sleepy newborn and now he is a semi big kid. He has grown and changed so much. He is developing his own personality and it couldn't be more fun to watch him blossom.

For being a premie, Callen is now a giant. Everyone is shocked when they hear how old he is, and their first response is always, "wow he is a BIG baby!" His stats are:

Weight: 73 percentile
Height: 76 percentile
Head circumference: 82 percentile

So I guess in all fairness, he is a big baby. He is just the perfect chubster who has rolls over rolls.

Milestones:

Movement:

Callen is developing so quickly that it feels difficult to keep track of everything new that is going on in his life! Around 7 months he really started sitting well on his own, which means we no longer had to put a pillow behind him every time we walked away. Now Callen is getting ready to move! He is going from sitting to the crawling position and rolling. Most of this he started working on in his crib, I think he wanted to perfect it before he debuted his new skills to us (little did he know that we can see him on the video monitor!).

Eating:

Callen is becoming a foodie! We started him at 6 months on purees. He loved squash, raspberries, bananas, sweet potatoes, and peas. He absolutely hated avocado, despite my attempts to trick him into eating it. Now, at 9 months, Callen is over the purees (he literally just stopped opening his month for them) and has decided he wanted to move on to something better. He now loves: veggie hot dogs, chicken, cheese, chick peas, zucchini, red peppers, blueberries, bread of any kind, and puffs.

Talking:

My little love bug is babbling up a storm, almost to the point that I feel like we are having a conversation of sorts. He has also discovered his voice and loves to hear it, he will just screech at the top of his lungs and then burst into laugher. More recently our chunkster loves to mimic. He will make a sound, I will mimic, and we just go round and round until one of us gets distracted, usually he gets distracted first :).

Playing:

Callen is such a sweet and social baby. He loves loves loves to laugh and be tickled. His favorite spots are his thighs, neck, and arm pits. Our love bug enjoys playing peek-a-boo and Where's Callen? He also likes reading books and hearing my different voices for characters.

Josh and I couldn't be more in love with our gorgeous guy and feel lucky to get to be his momma and dada!