The Adventures of Mindyanna Jones: 9 months

My little baby boy is getting bigger! 9 months is my new favorite age now. I wonder if I'll be saying that each month for years to come. Something new every week! Every time I look at him I think of how freaking cute he is, how much I love him....and how BIG he is! Looking at this picture below may not seem very special, but to me it makes me get a little teary eyed seeing how big he is and how life flies by. He had his 9 month check up this week and he's 22 lbs 7 ounces and 29 inches long. Their computers were down but my book said somewhere around the 75% percentile like when he was 6 months.

He has two wonderfully chunky thighs, strawberry blond hair, and two teeth right now. He can say "ball" when he's playing with balls and he has a lot gibberish in his vocab. He can say Mamamamama and Dad-E but he doesn't do it when you want him too. Seth said when he was crawling over him back and forth the other morning Ry did keep saying Dad-E Dad-E...so maybe he's figuring out what it means. He sure seems smarter than he lets on sometimes.
He's eating most foods he can mush in his mouth and he really likes to feed himself. His favorites are sweet potatoe cubes, squash, whole wheat ritz, mum-mums and of course his bottle. He's been cruising for a while now along furniture and he's been standing up all on his own. He crawls like a stink bug most of the time...I think it's because he goes faster that way. He also "takes a knee" instead of sitting on his bum most of the time. I think he's pretty excited to start walking and I wouldn't be surprised if it was in the next month or two. He stood up unassisted and took one step yesterday! How exciting is it to watch your baby grow!? :)

What a teddy bear!

I am so in love with this face!

Ryker and his Aunt Breeanna (-bo-banna)

Here he is "taking a knee"

Here's Ryker using his toy walker for the first time! I was speechless at first! I couldn't believe he just flew across the room like he did! Ignore my high pitched voice...lol...I was totally in baby talking mode...haha

Short video of Ry walking with help

Long video of Ry walking with help

Grandma McIntosh and Ryker

Ryker and Grandpa McIntosh playing with the newspaper.

We had THREE birthday's this month! Mom's was the first. Looking good mom!

Angela's and Grandma McIntosh's was the next weekend on July 18th!
(I totally ruined the picture of Gma with being out of focus...darn it! I need to start paying better attention for snap shots!) Here's Ang and the delicious "Better than Sex Cake" I made...I think there's some more modest names for it but I still think the original is great! It gets a giggle out of everyone. I put a whole bag of heath on top...totally made it better than others I've had.

Ryker also had his first taste of chocolate this week :) I came around the corner and found him like this.....
he had stuck his hand in the trash and pulled out the lid from my frappe that I had just thrown in.