Jesse Tyler, 9 Months and Gloucester Christmas Parade

Another month post for Jesse.  He is already 9 months – hard to believe!  Here is his latest news:

He’s been an excellent through-the-night sleeper for a long time but recently he started waking up anywhere from 3 am to 5 am.  Finally I realized that by this time I had been giving Esther more protein-rich food than Jesse had been getting.  I had only been feeding him organic baby food, which has some meat mixed in but still only a max of 3 grams per jar.  Not enough for this growing boy!  I added some jars of baby meet (not organic) and some organic yogurt and egg yolks.  Problem solved!  He is now back to sleeping soundly through the night.  Although if you make any noise at all after about 6:30 am, he will wake up and be ready for the day.  A slight bummer in a little camper when Tyler has to get up for work… (next post will be about our new living situation – promise!).

Jesse is pulling up and cruising using two hands but not close to walking yet.  Esther was just about walking by now, so I’m also encouraged to work with him a little more to get him to step – and put shoes on him more often to help with that right foot that still turns out.

He is probably also ready to learn some baby signs, but we haven’t started that yet.  He has recently started clapping his hands on his own.  He does it often, and it does seem to be when he’s excited.  It’s super cute. 

And, he has become a food beggar in the last few days!  We started giving him a few little pieces of our food and now if anyone is eating, he crawls to them and makes lots of happy noises until he gets some.  Uh-oh, we started something!

You can tell he wants to keep up with Esther.  That will get more interesting in the next few months, I’m sure.  We love him lots, and I can’t wait to see how much fun he has with Christmas.  : )

 

Here are pictures from the Gloucester Christmas parade.  It was actually on Jesse's nine months birthday so I decided to put the posts together.  Esther enjoyed the parade.  Jesse fell asleep before it was over.  Although, check out the last picture ... I've never seen Santa on a boat before!  I guess we are close to the coast.  ; )