Nine Months...

Well Chase has started his 9th month with quite a bang, we found out Wednesday that he has a double ear infection and brocialitus (again, ugh). The poor kid. The good news is he seems to be reacting well to the antibiotics and the nebulizer treatments and is almost back to his cheerful self.
There hasn't been a ton of changes in the past month. He is still all over the place, I mean ALL over the place. He wiggles into spots that I don't even know exist in our house. He finally figured out the stairs a week or so ago. He went up the entire flight his 1st try, not bad. The baby gate went right up as Charlie and I were sick of chasing after him going straight for the stairs over and over. He is not happy that the gate is up (nor is Audrey for that matter), he stands at it and shakes it like crazy. He started walking behind things too. He loves to push the numerous push toys we have, or the cars, or the laundry basket or whatever he can get behind and make move. He loves to pull himself up on everything, especially me which proves to be challenging when I am cooking dinner... He is also proving to be quite loud which should be surprising given his family background, but it is. He loves to talk to himself and his voice level is definitely up there. My favorite is when he wakes up in the middle of the night and shakes his crib and yells "ma ma ma ma"... Ok no that is not my favorite but it would be cute if it were at another time of day. He really is still not sleeping great. He has been going thru weeks were he does better and then he throws us a curve ball for a couple of days and is up all night and it is just exhausting. Surprisingly he has slept awesome since he has been sick and using the nebulizer (knock on wood) so I may just have to do that every night for the rest of his life, ha... Oh and he has 6 teeth now, he got 4 top ones in the past month you can kind of see in the pictures. That has not helped the sleeping cause at all... He had his 9 month well visit (it actually was a sick visit but that is besides the point) and he did not disapoint with his stats. He weighed in at 26 lbs 10 oz and measured 31 in.