9 Months

Thatcher is 9 months old! We had our 9 month check up and our big boy is healthy as can be. He weighs 23.5 pounds putting him in the 75th percentile for weight, he is 28.5 inches tall putting him in the 60th percentile for height and his head measures 18.25 inches putting him in the 75th percentile for head circumference.

He is crawling everywhere now and is always on the move. He has just started pulling himself up on anything that he can, but he's still pretty unstable. He hits his head on everything making momma very nervous.

He is babbling more and more, and he just loves saying Dadda!

He is happy when reading books and his favorites are by Dr. Seuss: "There's a Wocket in my Pocket" and "Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb".

His favorite toys are his musical instruments. He loves strumming his ukulele (he tries to strum on everything, actually). He also loves playing his drum and xylophone.

He loves taking walks in the stroller. And he is very good at giving low-fives.

And mostly... he is very good at being really really cute!

Summer Re-cap

We had a really fun summer. We took a trip up to Harbor Springs for Jim's cousin Jennifer's wedding back in June. This was Thatcher's first real trip. It was hot, and our truck decided that it would be a good time for the air conditioning to stop working. At 100 + degrees we couldn't make it 5 hours in a car with no air so we had to stop to rent a car before the trip even got started. Despite that rough start it turned out to be a really fun trip and baby was a very good boy. Here are some pics all dressed up for the wedding:

Then in July we went up to Roger's City for Thatcher's first McLean Family Reunion. He had a good time out at the Lighthouse park and he put his feet in Lake Huron for the first time.

And we took our first trip away from our baby overnight when we went to Chicago near the end of July for the Cirque du Soleil Michael Jackson show.