Sean is 10 Months!

Just a quick post but Sean is 10 months old (yesterday)!! He is quite the mover these days. Our 10 month photos were difficult to take this time as he really did not want to stop moving around. He seemed to have a blast this time. He kept laughing and looking at me and moving all around in the chair. I tried to get a couple videos of this but since I was more concerned with preventing him from throwing himself off the chair the videos were not as good as I hoped. He was so cute though. When he was not laughing and trying to jump off the chair he was busy patting Dogwood. He kept doing this over and over. It was adorable. I included the videos at the end. Below are several of our favorites! Can't believe our baby is 10 months already! 

Moving up! (and down)

Lots of new developments going on with Sean lately. I will start with the small ones first. We moved the height on his exersaucer up to the top position. If he gets much taller he will be too big for it. Although I think his interest in it will end before then. He will play in it now for bit of time (especially when he has not been it for a while) but will get tired of it pretty quickly. He received this for Christmas so it has gotten lots of good use! We also moved the jumper up to the top position. He reaction was as if it was an all new toy. He can really bounce again. 

On Father's Day we lowered the crib. We had talked about doing this for a while but Sean's ability to sit up on his own now made it a necessity! He never actually sat up on his own in the crib but sometimes we put him the crib with a few toys for short periods of time if we really need to get something done. The below pictures illustrate how important it was to move it down right away. 

I had been dreading this as I thought it would pretty difficult but it actually was pretty easy. Brett and I did it together with Sean in the exersaucer. Sean has not seemed affected by it at all (not that we really expected him to be) but it is a tad harder to put him down now! I guess the next thing we have to worry about is when he gets to big for crib altogether. I used to jump out of my crib at night (which is how my parents knew it was time to move to a bed). We are hoping Sean does not follow in my footsteps since our floor is hardwood! Here are a few pictures of Sean in the lowered crib.  

The big news is that Sean is moving up at school (to the crawler room)! They had mentioned it to us before that they would be moving him soon but were not sure exactly when. This past week he had a trial run, going over into the crawler room every day for a period of time. They told us that he did great each time and that he loved being in the room with all the space to move around and play. The infant room is great, with lots of things to keep the babies occupied (cribs, exersaucers, bouncers, swings, play mats, jumperoos, etc.). There is some room to crawl around in but not much. They told us that Sean moves all around the room and recently had been trying to crawl under the cribs. We were not surprised as he is always sticking his arms under the couches at home. He also loves to crawl into the lower part of the exersaucer at home (more on that in another post). He is moving on Monday. I teared up when I heard he was going to move. The people in the infant room have been so good to Sean. I am sure the next room will be just as great but I just can't believe how big our little man is getting! 

Supermarket Trip

About a week and a half ago Sean took his first real trip to the Supermarket. He had been to the supermarket once before as well as a few trips to Target and Costco but these were in his stroller and were fairly quick trips. This time we put him in the seat portion of the cart and did our normal shopping. He seemed to really enjoy it! He has always been very inquisitive and this was no exception. We brought him again this past weekend and it was a similar experience. It is nice to go out and about with him even if it is just running errands! Here are a few pictures from our trip. :-) 

Sean has become quite the little mover. He does not crawl "normally" yet but he can get where he wants to go combining his little army crawl and rolling. The morning we went to the grocery store Sean was playing and he started moving toward something. This is where he ended up. 

This is his kick and play playmat that he used all the time we he was a bit smaller. We put it off to the side in the living room but had not put it away yet. Turns out Sean was not quite done playing with it. We moved it into the back room after this. 

Memorial Weekend Trip

We took our first out of town trip for Memorial Day weekend. We visited Brett's parents and had a great time! We drove up early Saturday morning. This was our longest car ride with Sean to date and he did really well, especially considering he was awake for almost the entire time! We stopped at a rest stop a little over halfway there to give Sean a jar of peaches. He seemed a little confused as to why he was eating in his carseat but after a couple bites was chowing down like usual. 

Gemma and Poppa bought Sean a bucket full of toys so we did not have to bring very many (other than those needed to entertain SJ in the car). One of Sean's favorite activities is to "unpack" his toys. At home he has a little bucket that we fill with his toys and put it in front of him. He likes to make sure they are all out of the bucket. It is pretty funny when he has finished "unpacking" to put them all back in the bucket because he almost always feels the need to unpack them again. Sometimes he just turns the bucket over and dumps them out but usually it is one or two toys at a time, studying each one closely. Anyway, not only were they new toys but Gemma had them all in a real bucket! Sean did not really know what to do with himself at first so he just looked inside. :-) 

This bucket quickly became one of Sean's favorite "toys". He would turn the bucket over and bang on the bottom over and over. I tried to get a video but did not end up getting a good one. Here is a picture though! 

Poppa and Gemma have a pack and play so we did not have to worry about bringing ours (thank goodness!). The mattress in the pack and play is pretty thin and I was a little worried if Sean would be comfortable enough to sleep. One of my coworkers told me that they bought a special pack and play mattress and sheets for their daughter when they travel (not very expensive). We bought the exact mattress and boy am I glad! Adding the mattress definitely made it feel more like his crib at home. He did alright for naps (once we actually got him down) but slept GREAT at night. He actually slept later then he ever has at home. He did wake up once in the early morning. I saw him open his eyes and look over at the bed (the pack and play was in the same room we slept in). I pretended to be asleep and tried my best not to move at all. He went back to sleep and slept for another hour. We were so proud of the little man! 

Sean felt right at home in the high chair. This is the same one we have at home! 

Woody got in on the eating fun, although I am not sure what he found since Sean was eating pureed food but still funny! Sean did drop a few Puffs during the weekend and Woody snatched them up pretty quickly. However, much to Woody's chagrin, most of the dropped puffs tended to end up in the sides of the high chair, not the floor. 

Fun with Poppa!! 

We all had a great weekend and look forward to doing it again soon! Sean had so much fun he slept the ENTIRE car ride home. This might have also been the result of his refusal to nap on Sunday but I like to think he was tuckered out from so much playing. 

Sean is 9 months old!

Hard to believe that our little man is 9 months old (2 weeks ago)! He had his checkup last Thursday and received a great report! He is a big boy, over the 90% mark for length, weight and head circumference. Below are a few pictures from our 9 month photo shoot (which we did actually take on his nine month "birthday"). 

 Sean has started to figure out that the month is a sticker and can be played with. 

 He is such a busy boy now; sometimes it can be hard to get his attention for the picture!

In the past couple days Sean has officially figured out how to crawl! It is not a "proper" crawl but it gets him where he wants to go nonetheless (which is usually the opposite direction of where we want him to go). We will post a video of his "crawl" as soon as we can actually get it on video. 

Two weekends ago we went on our first out of town trip with Sean. We visited Gemma and Poppa and it was great. More on that soon. :-)