9 mos

yesterday, cash and slade turned 9 mos.  time is going by so fast.  it's heartbreaking and it's a relief that they are getting so big.  i have officially weaned them off breast milk this week, so now it's all formula, all the time.  another heartbreaking relief.  i think this is how it's going to be from now on, every new thing they do will be mixed with joy and sadness.  so excited they are growing big and healthy, more self-sufficient, little personalities shining through, but also realizing that i must savor every moment, because there will be no more babies after these two.

here's what they are up to:

Cash @ 9 mos  

this kid is so gosh darn adorable.  always ready with a smile.  finally growing in his front teeth :)  actually, right now he is getting 4 teeth in, his front two, and the ones next to his bottom two (for a total of 8).  Cash makes the most hilarious faces.  as you've seen on the blog, we often compare him to some interesting characters, and there are still a few i have yet to capture on camera: sloth -- from goonies (which is funny since we refer to slade as chunk) and either quasimodo or igor, not sure which the look is quite yet.  Cash also has this growl that he does which catches everyone by surprise.  it's real deep and truly, the child sounds possessed.  He finally started crawling this week.  it's real jerky, and his back half hasn't quite figured out how to sync up with his front half, but it moves him forward :)  it surprised me that he did start crawling because he's quite good at the army crawl, and i thought he might just go from that to walking.  hmmm... what else?  he loves to cruise around in the walker and loves being thrown up in the air.  he's a total stomach sleeper.  as soon as i lay him down for a nap or bedtime, he rolls over on to his belly.  and he loves to sleep with a blanket over his head.  cash has the longest legs.  i think he's gonna be tall.  :)

Slade @ 9 mos

so, so cute with his chubby little body and dimpled smile.  this guy is so melodramatic, if he doesn't get his way, you'd think to world is going to end.  he does this crumple, lays his forehead on the ground and just wails.  i think slade has begun to idolize jagger.  he watches jagger so closely and just laughs at every little thing jagger does.  slade is still not a good sleeper.  he stays up much later than the other two, wakes several times through the night, and he's the first one up in the morning.  i'm not sure what to do about that.  he's getting four teeth in right now, the top four, for a total of 6 teeth.  he loves to eat and watches me oh-so-closely while i'm eating, begging for food with his eyes, and pitching a fit if he doesn't get any.  he loves baths.  slade is a fast crawler.  he has started pulling himself up on everything, and cruises along the furniture.  he's seems to only be able to cruise to the left, and when he runs out of furniture, he cries because he's scared to sit down.  i'm constantly rescuing him from the standing position :)  he's still a toy stealer.  he can be across the room, look over to see cash with a toy, and he'll zip right over to relieve cash of it.  he's also a big fan of jagger's toys, much to jagger's dismay, and we've had to break up some fights between the two of them already.  he claps all the time, and thinks it's great when we clap with him.  i love his laugh :)