The Daniels: Catching up on posts -- 8 and 9 months old

Well, I got so far behind in my posts that I have much to catch up on. Since I always seem to write a book, I'll try to tone it down a bit this time and just give you the basics!

March -- Braden was 8 months old

Obviously, we spent some time in the hospital. Braden and I had a talk. We're never doing that again.

Braden got his 2 front teeth in. They came in after the two on either side of the front ones, a little backward but they're in and looking good! :-)

Around 3/8 he started crawling. So yes, he's been crawling for a couple months and I hadn't posted it. Sorry!

April -- Braden turned 9 months!

Braden still has a total of 6 teeth. Four up top and two on the bottom. He has such a great smile and shows it off ALL the time! He's been working on 2 more bottom teeth for a bit and had recently started biting! THAT we're going to stop. I think it just feels good on those emerging teeth, little stinker. You're holding him and his head is close to your shoulder. Somebody plays and gets him all excited and he leans over and chomps down on your shoulder! Or, should I say, MY shoulder! Ouch! Marty does it on purpose and thinks it's SO funny! I finally got bit twice in a row on my way up the stairs one night (Marty was behind us getting Braden going) and I got mad at Marty and turned around & punched him in the chest! :-) That'll teach him to think biting is funny!! Ha, ha. So, we're working on teaching Braden NO.

He's pulling himself up to a standing position on most things. There is a little fence in the room at daycare where they put the swings & bouncy seats, etc. with the tiny babies. It protects the little ones from the mobile monsters. :-) Braden is starting to shuffle down the fence. Too cute.

Of course, we had to lower the mattress in the crib. Marty said he now needs a step stool because he can't reach way down in there to get Braden! Ha, ha! Although, since we've lowered the mattress Marty hasn't been home much and has yet to put Braden to bed. So, it has yet to be an issue.

Pictures!!!!

Great Grandma Beverly, Great Grandpa PH and Grandma Phyllis came out mid-April. Braden was needing to get his 9 month pictures done so it was great timing. We had a few 4 generation photos taken! They turned out pretty good. Braden hadn't hardly slept all day so he was pretty tired. Fortunately he wasn't crabby but he wasn't real smiley either. He was just somber and ready for a nap. But, we managed to get a few smiles out of him (with some hard work) and a few good pictures. Dad put his cowboy hat on him and we ended up with a great solo picture of him as well!

Okay, so I'm FINALLY adding some older pictures of Braden that I just downloaded from the camera!

January

Grandma Phyllis came out for the stock show. The weather kept her from being here at Christmas so she brought his presents in January. Boy does Braden looked shocked at his gift!