9 Months!

It's hard to believe but Jimi turned 9 months old today! I can tell that doing his monthly photo shoot is going to continue to be more and more difficult to accomplish. Jimi is on the move and he doesn't want to slow down, especially for me to take pictures of him. Here some of the best that I was able to get:

Are you really going to make me do this again, Mom?

I went and sat on the deck to try to keep his attention... it didn't work very well.

Between weddings, James' gigs, Mariner's games, birthday celebrations, and Father's Day festivities this last month was a pretty busy one. Jimi (and James) went to three Mariner's games this month! If he keeps up at this rate he might actually notice what's going on at the game by the end of the summer.

Sleepy boy at the game on Father's Day

Jimi is still crawling and climbing everywhere! He's also pretty good a figuring out how to manipulate things, such as, opening and closing drawers, flushing the toilet, opening his diaper champ and putting clean diapers in to it (we'll give him the bill for those ones when he's older). We now have locks on nearly all of our cabinets and drawers. We left the one full of pot holders open for him so he can feel like he's getting away with something. He's not walking yet but he is able to stand unassisted for several seconds at a time now.

Trying to fit himself into one of the storage baskets from his changing table

This month he got to chow down on his first real strawberry, orange slice and pickles. If we cut it up into pieces for him to eat he's not interested but he'll put the whole thing in his mouth. He absolutely loves pickles! I think the rubbery feeling feels good on his gums. He just gnaws on them whole and sucks the juice out. He is not a fan of sourdough bread. I'm going to work on giving him more "real" finger foods this month as Jimi is becoming less and less interested in us feeding him and more and more interested in trying to eat our food.

Mmmm Pickles

Eating a strawberry

In the great tooth watch of 2011, Jimi still has nothing! He has been chomping down hard and gummy on everything for the last 6 months but yet he still has nothing to show for his hard work and pain. I did just learn that James did not get any teeth until he was a few years old and they say it's hereditary. I really hope not for Jimi's sake! Jimi is now sleeping through the night pretty regularly. He goes to bed around 8 and sleeps until 5 or 6, drinks a bottle and then goes back to sleep for another hour or so. He is also FINALLY napping in his crib. It's great to be able to get stuff done while he's napping now.

Jimi had a cold that lasted almost two weeks this month. Poor little guy was wheezy, coughing, and full of snot. We took him into the clinic twice to have him looked at. His pediatrician is amazing and very understanding of worried first time parents. He has a 9month check up with more shots but not until July 11th, so I'll post and update after that.

Jimi and his friend Miles

Jimi and his friend Carmen

High chair sleepin'

365 Days

I've decided to do a 365 day photo challenge to better document our family. You can view that page by clicking the link on the right side of this blog or by visiting Orr Family Photo Blog. Enjoy!

8 Months!

On Monday Jimi turned 8 months old...

His monthly photo shoot did not go so well. He was quite aware that there was a sticker on his onesie and spent the entire time trying to and eating the sticker. Oh well, you can get the gist of how big he is.

Jimi is still quite the explorer. We have to keep a close eye on him or before we know it he's into some kind of trouble... putting something in his mouth he shouldn't be, getting himself stuck somewhere, pulling something on top of himself, etc. He is not a fan of laying still for diaper changes. He loves to feed himself. He is constantly "talking" up a storm. James is convinced he is going to say a real word any day, I know it'll be a while. Jimi has a little bit of separation anxiety when meeting new people. He'll give 'high fives' but usually only to me. He is still not sleeping through the night consistently but the last week he's done pretty good. Sleeping from 8:30pm-6:30am.

Hanging out with his Grampy for a Memorial Day bbq





Trouble maker

Jimi was helping unroll the toilet paper for us

He figured out how to flush the toilet





7 Months Old

Jimi is now a lean, mean (well actually pretty sweet), crawling 7 month machine!



Our little crawler man





He just wanted to roll over and I kept calling his name... he was not amused.



Jimi went from just barely being able to crawl to getting anywhere he wanted very fast. It was amazing to watch the transition in just a matter of hours. He still does a combo of army crawling on his belly and crawling up on all four. So far he is most interested in crawling towards Penny or any of her toys. We're very fortunate (and surprised) that she is being very patient with him.

We've also started giving Jimi a few finger foods (Gerber yogurt melts and puffs are delicious) to let him get practice feeding himself. He loves it! He also loves drinking out of cup. He hasn't quite gotten the hang of using a sippy cup though, he just chews on the mouth piece. 

Feeding himself a rice rusk



His little personality has been coming out more and more. He is quite the little ham and loves to laugh. Jimi has been "talking" since he was just a few weeks old, but now he's really making different sounds and "words". He most commonly makes different 'b' sounds when he's happy and 'ma' sounds when he's upset. I think his first word may be 'Hi' because he frequently tries to imitate that. Speaking of which, we're working on teaching him to wave hi and bye. He's done it a few times but doesn't really seem to understand why he's doing it.





Wordless Wednesday!

(With the exception of a few captions)

Seaside, OR

Mmmm VooDoo Donuts

Jimi's turn to drive

Brushing his gums

He was very excited to tear into his Easter basket



Almost crawling

I posted this on my facebook but I know that some of you who read this don't have a facebook account (i.e. you dad), so here it is again.

My guess is that Jimi will have crawling down within the next few days. A trip to Babies r Us is probably in order this weekend to get baby gates and other baby proofing necessities.

Roadtrip!

All of the school districts that James is working for were on spring break last week so we decided to take a short family road trip to the Oregon coast. I was a little weary of how it would go with Jimi and the dog in the back seat but other than the occasional licks from Penny, the two pretty much ignored each other. We took Hwy 101 down to enjoy a more scenic route and it was beautiful.

We got to Oregon Monday afternoon and it was POURING rain. There wasn't much we could do outside so we drove around Astoria a bit and saw what little we could from the car. We stayed in Seaside, OR Monday night. Thankfully, it wasn't raining on Tuesday morning (it was still pretty cold though) so we were able to walk around downtown Seaside and look at the beach. We took Hwy 101 down to Tillamook (which was the by far the prettiest part of the drive) that afternoon to have lunch and take a tour of the factory.

After Tillamook we drove East to the Portland area to have dinner with my best friend (and Jimi's Godmother) Melissa. We stayed in Beaverton, OR Tuesday night. On Wednesday we drove into Portland so we could make a special trip to VooDoo Donuts. We had to wait outside in the freezing cold (it had just stopped snowing) to get these donuts but they were delicious and totally worth it. We made a stop at Widmer brewery to see if we could get a tour, but unfortunately they only offer them on Fridays and Saturdays.

It was a great trip with some beautiful scenery. I only wished I had packed warm clothes for myself.

In other news, Jimi has started to sleep on his tummy at night. He's been able to roll over for more than two months now but because we swaddle him at night he wasn't able to get the momentum to do it without the use of his arms while he slept. However, he is finally strong enough that he doesn't need his arms to roll over. We've stopped swaddling him now and he pretty much instantly rolls over in his sleep. I am NOT of fan of this. I know he's pretty much out of the SIDS window and that if he's strong enough to roll over he's strong enough to sleep that way, but I still find myself checking on his breathing several times during the night.

(Sorry there are no pictures from our trip, but Blogger has refused to upload them for the last 5 days. I'll try to post them again another time)