[From the archives] 9 months (Week 38): Lucas cracking up

Lucas cracking up when he sees me making the 'finish' sign in sign language. Your  giggles are so infectious!

Week 42: All dressed up

We attended Uncle Quang's wedding last week. Mummy dressed you up in a little bowtie onesie, you looked so handsome. Mummy and Daddy looked quite nice too :)

On the way to the ceremony

Week 43: Crawling motivation

Daddy put the TV remote in front of you to motivate you to crawl forward. It really works!

You're still doing squinty eyes for no apparent reason. You're also fascinated with the water in your sippy cup, it's really cute.

Week 42 milestone: Commando crawling!

You're finally crawling forward! I noticed you were pushing off your toes to go forward and play with your ball. This morning we tried to entice you to go forward by turning off the TV and putting the remote control in front of you. It worked!

I was playing peekaboo with you under the walker. I love your squeals of laughter!

Week 41: Cute photos from last week

Our internet connection has been really slow so I haven't been able to upload any photos. It seems to be working now, so I'm uploading a few photos from last week. We spent lots of time in the backyard while Daddy painted indoors.

Week 42: Our first Christmas tree

I was so excited to get a Christmas tree for your first Christmas. I went a bit overboard with the xmas decorations and even ordered a personalised ornament to commemorate our first Christmas. I want to start a new tradition of getting a special ornament every year. Here is the 2013 one, it has our names on it!

The tree - with over 200 ornaments! I think it looks so pretty.

Week 42: Trip to the zoo

Daddy has been on leave for a week now and he's managed to paint all the rooms in the house and also take us to the zoo on Monday. I think you're still too young to appreciate the animals and you were grumpy most of the day because you didn't have a long enough morning nap.

We drove into the city and then took a ferry to the zoo. We saw a few animals but it was a hot day and you were too fussy, so we left after your afternoon nap.

View of the Harbour Bridge from the ferry

On the ferry

Our first animal sighting - a sleeping koala

View of the city skyline

Week 41: Cute videos

This is how you laugh when you get excited, it's the cutest thing! You do this when you see me or Daddy and want to be held. It always works, how can we resist?

Here you are playing with your food. We gave you watermelon in the little food pouch, you look like you're playing aeroplanes with it.

You love to sing, especially in the car with the radio on:

Week 40: Happy birthday, Grandpa!

We celebrated Grandpa's birthday today over yum cha, his first birthday as a Grandpa! Definitely a big milestone :) You have so many expressions - happy, bored, bored and more bored-looking expressions. I love capturing your expressions, it makes me laugh looking at them again!

Week 40: Playdate with Aunty Mandy

Aunty Mandy came over to play with you today so I took some photos of you together in the garden. I love taking photos of you playing in the garden. The sunlight is gorgeous and the lawn looks so nice after Daddy did some mowing on the weekend. Can't wait for you to be able to run around the garden.

You can see your 2 little teeth!

Week 40: Video round-up

Oh my gosh, you're 40 weeks old already! I think you had a growth spurt last week, your legs look so long now. I've got lots of youtube videos that haven't been added to the blog, so here's a long round-up:

You're doing a lot of reverse scooting around now and we really need to start baby proofing. You love to eat everything, including my slippers and the carpet (ugh). I have to keep a careful eye on you!

You are getting better at crawling backwards but I can tell you're frustrated at not being able to reach things that are in front of you.

You've learnt to scoot around on your bum! So funny.

Aunty Mandy told me about the "red dot experiment" to test your self-awareness. I put a red dot on your nose and put you in front of the mirror. You didn't touch your nose so it means you're not aware that the person in the mirror is you. Apparently babies aren't self-aware until 18 months, so I'll test you again in a few months to see.

Trying to feed yourself:

Week 39 photo story: Morning play

The light looked lovely this morning after we finished breakfast, so I took you outside to play on the lawn.

9 month sticker photos and video

You're 9 months old now (39 weeks) and you've become more active and alert compared to last month. You're also falling asleep on your own now. I just put you down into your crib for the night and you didn't even cry like you did yesterday. I can't believe how well you are settling yourself to sleep. You're now only waking up once at night at 4am. I spoke to the baby health nurse today and she suggested I feed you mashed food instead of puree so that it takes longer to digest and you will be less likely to wake up from being hungry. So we did that today. Let's hope you slowly grow out of the 4am feed and sleep through the night!

You're still shuffling backwards to get around, though I can see you getting more confident scooting around the mat. You're more restless now and fidgety, like you really want to start moving around. You can see it in the video below:

You've still got so many funny expressions! Grandma and Grandpa were so worried you would fall off the couch because you kept tipping yourself forward. So they kept moving you closer and closer to the inside of the couch. Grandparents are so cute.