9 Months and counting

Katharine likes to tell me that little man has been here now for longer than he was cooking. Friday was his 9 month birthday, and in our regular fashion, we measured all of the important stats and took some pictures. Really, who are we kidding? We don't need a birthday or other special moment to take a picture.

He is now topping the Wii scale at 21.4 pounds.
Q is 29.5 inches long--though this was an estimate, since he won't lay still for longer than a millisecond.
Q's head circumference is 18 inches, for all of those cranial-measurers out there.

He was not overly cooperative with the official posed photos, but we got some good ones of him sitting up. As you can see, everything he touches is still going into his mouth, making us believe that teeth numbers 9 and 10 are not too far away.

We're off to see the Wizard!

My parents don't like when I chew on them. This will have to do.



I love my new letters. Yum.



A little sag in the pants never hurt anyone.

Crawling!!

He did it! After weeks and weeks of scooting, and getting up on his hands and knees to rock, he crawled! With alternating hands and knees, moving more than one step at a time. We had a surprise show last night while we were Skyping with Grandpa Roy and Grandma MJ, then this morning he took off and Katharine speedily grabbed the camera to catch his action.



Now we can all feel better about his standing up and not worry about skipping early developmental stages that could cost thousands of dollars in future therapy. I can only imagine the bills that would come to have the 40-year-old Q crawling on a therapist's floor. He'll thank us one day.

Dog Watching

Poor Quinlan may never have a dog that he can call his own, but he seemed to enjoy getting to know his "cousin" Brazos, who stayed here last week while Q's Aunt Liz visited Dallas.

Brazos was very good and would sit and wait while Q pet him, which consisted of putting his hand out, touching Brazos's fur and then recoiling. Brazos even gave some encouraging kisses which Q took laughingly. He especially liked it when Brazos kissed his feet.

Going for walks really showed the dog's true nature; Brazos insisted on walking right next to the stroller, keeping a vigilant eye on anything or anyone who may want mess with the little man.

Katharine got some video of Q trying to communicate with Brazos through the kitchen door. She wasn't prepared to put Quinlan on the tile outside--who knows what he would eat.

...and the next stage is...

Quin's newest trick is a little scary for Mom and Dad. We are amazed each day while Q gets stronger and braver. I have learned that he needs a spotter most of the time, but that he also wants to be independent. There has to be some deep, parental lesson in that.

Take a look and see what he can do now.

Climbing

As you can tell from the awesome clothing, this video was shot back on Halloween. If he was wearing the hat and shoes, you would recognize the gnome costume, but without them it looks more like a lumberjack. Where can you find a plastic axe to accessorize with?

Anyway, one of Q's newest tricks is climbing up on you, or on objects if they are around. He is also sitting fairly proficiently for longer periods of time. I clipped two short videos together, one of him sitting, and one of him climbing up onto Katharine.



On a side note, Katharine and I looked back at a few of our older videos from when Q was just a small little newborn. It was a lot of fun to see how much he has grown in the past 8.5 months. If you are curious use the side-bar to navigate back to February or March. Our favorite was this one which was from his first bath the day he was born. Such little lungs.

Speaking . . . . ? and playoffs

So, Q has been babbling a lot recently. He picks up a syllable and uses that one for a little while. It was pretty funny waking up the other night and listening to him chatting in his bed. He went back to sleep after his conversation; we're not sure what he was telling his lion, but it was interesting to listen in on it.
Over the weekend, Q was all into his mamamamamama, we just never got the camera out for it. Today, he switched over for dadadadadada, and we did have the chance to catch it on film. Neither of us really thinks he is calling us as of yet, but it is still fun and exciting.



Too cute.


It is game 6 of the series, so we washed and broke out the Phillies T-Shirt. Q was allowed to stay up late to watch the first inning. I know, we are such push-overs as parents.



Let's Go Phillies!!




Sitting up all by myself to watch the game.

Let's go Phillies

Game 5 was predicted to be a winning night, at this point, let's hope that doesn't turn out to be true.

Q wore his Phanatic t-shirt for game one and the city of brotherly love celebrated the only win so far in the series. It's been a tough week seeing them drop games 2, 3 and 4, so Q broke out his rally shirt in support. Let's hope for a win.