9 Month Wessers

Just look at this goober. He turns 10 months in just a couple of days, but I couldn't just let another month go by!

Wes is everywhere! Shortly after learning to crawl he started pulling himself to a stand and now loves to stand on everything. So now when I go to get him from his crib he is holding on to the side, shaking himself back and forth and yelling at the top of his lungs. One of my funniest mental images. 

He is an extremely talkative and noisy little guy, making some of the funniest sounds I have ever heard from a baby (like a guttural "guh" sound, but with his mouth closed--try it, it's actually really hard!). He's also got those hilarious Young eyebrows and uses them often enough that it's one of the things strangers comment on first. 

Wes is plenty stubborn, squawking when he wants his mom and toys and food and to be picked up and when he's generally irritated with his brothers (who insist Wes hugs need to be flat on the ground). He is tolerating his dad more and more, though still hits a point when he is getting tired when mom is the only one that can calm him down.

And in true third-child fashion, at his nine-month appointment I was shocked to discover that we hadn't tried, like, half of the developmental milestones. Not that we have any concerns about his development, but who remembers to play pat-i-cake with their third baby? (probably everyone else)

We'll get Luke to do it. 

If You Let the Boys Outside

If you let the boys outside they are going to want to use the water table (regardless of the weather).

If they decide to use the water table they will have to get naked since they're sure to get wet. 

After getting naked and starting to play Wes will surely want to join them. 

Once he joins them he will probably end up eating some pink chalk

getting trapped under the water table

and eating something really gross and dirty.



So mom will take it inside and wash it and then bring out a scrubber so the boys can clean the table, and then Derek will put the dirty scrubber in his mouth.

After a while Wes will be all wet and cold and start crying. 

And the boys will need a tub. 

But chances are if we let them outside tomorrow, they'll want to get naked again.

Wesser's Whiskers

The most facial hair he will probably ever have...

Fall(ish)

See? There are some leaves around.

This Thanksgiving we were grateful for boys, busy bodies, and being outside in the beautiful Houston weather. 

And babies, of course. 

7th and 8th Month Wessers

I missed a month. Poor third child. 

Last month, Wes was barely sitting up, needing a boppy pillow as a safety net, and would keel over after a few minutes and lay on his pillow, kicking his legs and trying to sit straight up by doing a little baby crunch. Now he is everywhere, army crawling, pushing himself back up into a seated position, rocking back and forth on his hands and knees, and terrorizing poor Derek (who gets him back by stealing his toys, which Welsey has already learned he does not like). 

At seven months, he still wasn't sleeping through the night and was taking terrible thirty minute naps during the day. He still wakes up all night, but now at least he takes some gloriously long day naps. Baby steps. 

Also at seven months, Wes was just starting to pick at his food, sometimes getting stuff into his mouth and sometimes not, but mostly refusing to be fed anything by spoon. Now, he still won't willingly eat off of a spoon, but he does shovel an impressive amount of food into that little mouth and has already got a pincher grasp dextrous enough for little frozen peas. Which he loves.

Some things are still the same. He is still a super snuggly, loving, excitable little guy who loves his momma more than anything else. He still shrieks louder than his brothers and babbles and giggles and coos as much as possible. He still isn't a huge fan of his carseat, but he now just kind of whimpers and looks at me tragically when I strap him in instead of full-on wailing. 

And he is still his brothers' favorite toy, though with a new and improved movement function that they think is really fun when they kick around a ball and taunt him to come and get it. 

Cowabunga, dude!

Lean green ninja team

On the scene
Cool teens doing ninja things

So extreme

Out the sewer like laser beams

Heroes in a half shell

Turtle Power!