Nine Months!!

As of Friday Alex was officially NINE months old!!  Holy crap I know!  I can not believe that it has actually already been nine whole months!  He has gotten so big, has FOUR teeth and is learning to try to talk while his personality is rapidly blossoming!!  He's finally, actually thinking about becoming mobile, so we are noticing that pretty soon we will be unprepared, so we need to make some new accomidations! Hasn't started crawling yet, but he did this himself...

Now is the opportune time to make a list of mobile baby containment  safety items and changes to complete before he starts moving and hurts his little tubby self!

• baby gates (2)- the kind you install that attach to the wall so they are always there no matter what.  we need one for the top of the stairs and one for the bottom of the stairs. 
• outlet covers- don't want him hurting his little fingers and getting shocked by the outlets.
• move mattress in crib down a level or two before he can pull himself up.
• possibly find somewhere to put dog bowls so he won't be able to eat dog food or play in dog water.

And to pack away since he's outgrown them and they're wasting valuable space that could be storing massive amounts of big boy toys...

• swing
• little bouncy chair thingy that sits on the floor
• bumbo chair
• slings that we never even used because we got crappy ones that suck!
• the two gigantic rubbermaid containers full of clothes that are now too small for him and taking up half of his closet space

That's it so far, but i'm sure I'll think of more!

I stood him up here, but he'll hold himself up and he thinks it's hilarious, so I'm thinking we should be nervous about when he figures out how to do it himself!!