Colton turned 9 months last week! I can hardly believe in only 3 short months he'll be celebrating his big birthday. Here are a few pictures from our trip to the retired horse farm. I can't believe we've never been here before. It's about 3 minutes away from our house and they have 164 horses, 12 dogs and 1 cat. It's an older, retired couple and it was always their dream to provide a place for horses to live out the end of their lives without having to work or be road (is that the right verb?) by people. Many of them are blind or have other ailments. Most are retired from police work or horse racing. Some are from the circus or other shows and then some are just horses that were abandoned. They get to enjoy their last years in green pastures while lots of folks come to admire them and feed them carrots. In fact, the admission is 2 carrots per person :)At Colton's 9 month check-up he weighed 21 lbs and was 29 1/4 inches long. He's at a plateau right now and hasn't had another big growth spurt recently. It's funny, he has a very distinct growth pattern which includes plateaus followed by big spurts. It's really neat, the doctor charts all of that info out so we can visually see his growth.
Colton has 8 teeth (4 top and 4 bottom), says mama and dada and baba. He loves to hug and give open mouth kisses. He pretty much tries to eat your nose! He plays independently very well at school but sometimes at home he gets fussy because he wants mama or dada to sit with him. He doesn't want us to play, just to be near. He doesn't really have stranger anxiety but he definitely realizes when one of us has left the room.
He eats well for breakfast and lunch and snack but we've been struggling with dinner. He just isn't crazy about food that time of day. Unfortunately that's when we're normally trying to experiment with new finger foods. Speaking of which, the only foods he'll eat with his hands are the organic happy baby puffs and peas. So far he has managed to avoid every single piece of chicken on his plate and he could care less about green beans and grapes. We just keep trying and hopefully soon he'll start have a taste for those things. As for holding his bottle...forget about it! He'll drink from a cup if we hold it and on occasion he'll use a sippy but he prefers someone holding his bottle for him!
For the past two weeks Colton has been sleeping so well. He started sleeping a full night (about 11 hours) when he was six months old but then around 7 months he started waking at 10:30 p.m. and then again at 4 a.m. We would get up and comfort him and give him some water but he would just cry as if he were in pain and pull his legs up. After multiple trips to the doctor to check for ear infections and allergies we ultimately realized that he was having trouble going to the bathroom. He always went regularly so I assumed it wasn't constipation but they were much harder than they should have been. The doctor put us on a daily dose of miralax and it has worked wonders. The second night he was on it he started sleeping through the night again and he's gone 12 hours a night ever since. He's such a good baby, he'll go down around 7:30 and just lay awake in his crib for a minute or two and then fall asleep and wake around 7 a.m. It makes our lives so much easier to know we'll have a predictable nights sleep. I'm sure we have some late nights in our future but for now I will enjoy every minute of sleep I get!!
Hope this finds everyone doing well!
Love,
Jenny and Josh
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