9 months!

Drayton turned 9 months Sunday! 

And boy, have we had an explosion of big boy growth.  He for some reason has decided that he now wants to eat and take a bottle.  I guess it just needed to be in his own time!  However, he is still a bit picky and turns his nose up at all homemade food.  At least he is eating.  At least he is eating.

He is still army crawling.  I have a feeling he might walk before he crawls.  He is now pulling up to standing and even is a daredevil and tries to stand up without holding on to anything.

He talks to us all of the time like he knows what he is saying.  And the best thing, other than eating food, is (thanks to some encouragement from Stefany Bowers)  he is now sleeping through the night!  We had to do a little sleep training last week and it worked!  My clock is still messed up and I keep waking up throughout the night, but it isn't because of Drayton! 

He's becoming a little bit of a ham.  When he wakes up from naps now, he often will talk to his stuffed animals and laugh.  Though he is mostly all smiles, don't ever try to take away his shovel.

Drayton had his 9 month appointment Monday.  He was all over the board in percentiles!  He is basically a skinny melon head according to the percentiles (9% weight, 99% head circumference)But she said everything still looks great, other than one big problem.  I am very nervous and not looking forward to this at all.  And I hope Drayton will forgive me one day for posting this on the itnernet.  Unfortunately, due to his excessive "fat pad" (which totally doesn't make sense since he is supposedly skinny) and despite my best efforts, his circumcision has grown up.  So, we are being referred to a urologist in Dallas to get that taken care of.  Ouch!!!  I am not looking forward to that, but it will be better for him in the long run.

I'm just not thinking about that now.  Just enjoying this little stinker.

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Pumpkin Patch

After our Nashville trip, we stayed in Dallas for a few days and got to spend some time with the Ford side of the family.  It is really fun to get to see Drayton with his cousins!  Other than the pumpkin patch, I didn't get too many pictures, once again.  I've got to get better.

We got to go see Grandmother Ford!  4 generations.  Pretty neat.

He asked her where she got her necklace.

She asked him where he got his blankie.

Cousins with Mimi at the Pumpkin patch

Drayton's first encounter with a pumpkin

couple of country bumpkins

That is pure joy on a little boy's face.  He loves a good steering wheel.

He has much better focus when he's driving.  His mommy has hit 2 parked objects in the last month.

After Florida, Nashville, and Dallas, we are definitely homebound until Thanksgiving.  We had a great time, but it is definitely time to be home for a little bit.

Nashvegas

It is always so nice to go home! We went to Nashville last week for a week and it was so great.  However, I hardly took any pictures.  So here's what I got.

Drayton got to meet Aunt Ruth! (and Ben, Andrew and Uncle Nate, but I didn't get pictures.)

My cousin Jessie just had little baby Sam.  He was so cute and little!  My cousin Jenny's little girl, Madison was obviously doing a great job holding him.

Drayton enjoyed the safety of Aunt Jessie's lap.

Macey was very attentive to Drayton.  He wasn't exactly sure about it.

Slappy driving lesson.

Grandma came over on our last day before the airport.  Drayton, Caden, and Tate were all 3 crying and being pretty needy.  This picture sums up that morning.

Excited for our flight.