9 Months and Favorite Food

You're nine months old!  This seemed like such a big milestone all along but also so far away.  And here we are.  And it certainly is a big one!  Crawling (First time on April 16th) and trying to pull yourself up on furniture, our legs, the dishwasher, etc.  And teething!  You're getting your fifth tooth, an upper.  I won't lie:  this was one rough week.  For all of us!  You have lots of snot with this tooth coming and maybe some allergies with the beautiful weather we've been having.  You don't seem sick otherwise.  We also had our first bloody boo boo. Oh it was traumatic, again, for all.  You were pulling yourself up on an ottoman and fell backwards, and giving yourself a fat lip.  Blood all over your lips and teeth.  Yikes.  I suppose there's more of that to come but I hope they're all minor bumps.

 You also seemed to lose interest in solids the last week or so.  I'm told that sometimes happens while teething and that makes sense.  But tonight you ate a great dinner.  Steamed broccoli, sweet potato and some cherry tomatoes.  Those were your very first tomatoes and it is fair to say that I think we've found your favorite food!  You sucked the seeds out and then scraped the pulp out with your teeth all very enthusiastically.  It was wonderful to watch!  Other foods you have enjoyed the last few months:  strawberries, raspberries, pasta, toast with avocado or peanut butter, frozen waffles, Indian spiced gardenburgers, mom's spicy turkey meatballs, oatmeal, yogurt, scrambled eggs, avocado, dried pineapple, dried mango, etc!

Ah, other recent developments: we bought a house! More on that later...