9 MoNths and gRoWing

My baby is turning into a big boy.  The 9m. visit isn't too bad

only two pokes instead of 5.  Bronson weighs 19 lbs, (20%)

is 27 1/4 in. (15%) and I don't remember what his head was

but that was the 60%.  His favorite part was grabbing the 

ear uh. . . .thing and pulling it off of the wall.  He is such

a little monkey.  He has been able to get around for a 

while, but over the last couple of days he's made some crawling

 progress, going about 4 crawler steps before he resigns to 

his belly.  He's starting to pull open cupboards, pull him self up

 (trying to stand) and just scaring his mommy.  With all this fun

mobility nap time has become a bit of a joke.  A few weeks ago

 we had to lower his mattress (which was a sad day),  I was looking

  in the monitor to see if he as okay and his face was right in the

camera, which is up on his dresser.  The crib is no longer

 a safe haven for sleeping but a fun jungle gym.

So after about 30 min. of trying to lay him down, 

rocking some more, trying mommy's bed, Bronson

has figured out he's pretty good at driving me nutty!

He thinks he's so funny, every time I go back in his room

 to lay him down, his cries turn into giggles as he falls onto

his back.  But that's not all, as he now can sit up by himself from

laying down, I probably have to go into his room about 10-15 times

during the night, as he will be sitting up in bed crying and 

half asleep, sometimes all I have to do is lay him down, and others

requires about 5-10 min. of rocking then falling back asleep and

 starting all over.  It probably wouldn't seem like such a tragedy to 

me, but we only enjoyed about a week of sleeping entirely through 

the night before he started rolling over to his tummy and all 

of this started.  It's a good thing he's so cute otherwise you might

have to "put my picture in the monkey house."

Well I was getting a little stir crazy so I talked my sister Steph into

going to the zoo with us.  This is Davis, Me, Bronson, and Landon. 

 (and my long lost relatives in the background)

We had tons of fun!  Landon was a little timid to take a drink 

from the lion drinking fountain, and while Davis was sitting on the 

big wooden elephant it sneezed. Needless to say he

didn't like it very much.   What fun cousins we have! 

Bronson's favorite were the giraffes.   After watching many a "Nature"

I think if I could be any animal it would be a Giraffe (even though

watching a baby giraffe be born was one of the weirdest things I've

 ever seen) or an Elephant (as long as it wasn't a desert elephant).  

And while I'm on the subject,"Dumbo" is the most depressing Disney

 movie ever, what a downer.  I would never want to be a lion or a

 penguin.  Top of the food chain, ha!  These guys are retarded, but 

in my defense we named Simba before I became a Nature addict.  

I'm like one of those sport fans that yell at the TV, except I'm yelling 

at these animals who can be so ruthless to each other.  Anyway we

 had a fun day at the zoo and I would recommend it to 

anyone looking for a fun day!  

and if you're annoyed that every time you look at my blog

I have a different background, me too!  I'm trying to find

one I like so that I never have to change it again, but as you

can see I'm doing a terrible job, so I'm just gonna go with

plain Jane for a while, . . . . or day we'll see. :)