I should really start posting on here more than once a month. I just never have the time to get one! Every time I touch the computer Ethan goes nuts. Anyway! I should really read the last blog I wrote before writing a new one because I can never remember what I've already wrote about. Well for one, Ethan has two teeth now! He loves to bite too! Obviously we went to his 6 month appointment already. Once again the doctor will not give him the dang medicine for his reflux. It's getting really annoying! Ethan chokes on a lot of things and he shouldn't have to deal with it. One good thing is that his hernia is gone. While we were at his appointment the doctor looked at his chest to check out the white bump and said it was just a skin tag or a cyst but she said it's fine. Well about a week after we saw the doctor the white bump got swollen and red. Then it got a white bump on top of the red and popped! We headed back to the doctor to get him looked at yet again just for another doctor to say he doesn't know what it is but it's infected. Ethan is on antibiotics right now and it's not so red anymore but hasn't went away. We were hoping with the medicine the bump would completely go away but it seems like it's just going to go back to how it was before. I'll have to have the doctor take another look at his 9 month appointment and see if the opinion on what the bump is has changed. Oh! At Ethan's first appointment he weighed 20 pounds and his 28 inches tall. When we went back he weighed 21 pounds! I think he gained weight so fast because before we saw the doctor Ethan was only eating 2 containers of food a lot of the time. She told us to start giving him 3 and just to give him bottles between meals and at bed. Most of the time this works, but some times Ethan refuses to eat so he just ends up with more bottles that day. Other times he will eat tons at a time! Today for lunch he had almost 2 containers of food and some baby yogurt! Ethan is starting to use a sippee cup now too! At first he would hold the cup and just chew on them but now he realized how to drink out of them. The only problem is he hasn't figured out he needs to hold his head back to drink. He leans down to his cup and sucks on it thinking it will just come out. He will drink from the sippee if I hold it for him, because then he puts his head back. He is a silly boy. He'll get it eventually. OH! Ethan is crawling now too! We were convinced he wasn't going to crawl! Ethan seemed to just want to start walking but then suddenly one day he really wanted to get the cat and away he went! Now he crawls all over the place. He will crawl to the side of the couch and I stay in front of it and we play peek a boo! He will get super excited and eventually end up crawling over to me :) It's super sad when Nick goes to work though because Ethan crawls over to the door and tries to follow him out and then cries when he's gone :(. Poor baby doesn't want his dada to leave him. For the most part Ethan just stays in the living room, unless one of us or the cats goes into the kitchen and then he will crawl in there a bit but ends up turning back around. He tried eating cat food off the floor in there the other day so we bought a baby gate. Unfortunately I didn't measure it first and the gate isn't long enough! It stretches from 26 to like 40 some inches I think but apparently we have really wide doorways. I guess I'll have to get another gate and use that one somewhere else. Ethan is constantly climbing all over everything too. He was doing that before but now he does it a lot more. If I lay on the floor he climbs over me, he tries to pull himself onto the couch etc. Hmm what else. He eats snack foods now. He has gerber puffs and lil crunchies (the cheeto things). For the most part he does a pretty good job eating them but once in a while he just starts choking out of no where. He won't have a big piece or anything, it's just the reflux acting up. Actually the other day I was with my brother who wanted to go take Ethan to see my dad for lunch. As everyone knows I am not a fan of my father but Alex seems to really want Ethan to see him so I've given in a bit. Ethan was eating some of his cheetos and of course started coughing and my dads LOVELY girlfriend freaked out and said he was choking, which he, in fact, was not. Later on Ethan did it again in which my dad gave me a dirty look and told me to pay more attention to him. I can't stand that man. Who is he to say anything about MY parenting? I didn't choke him. His reflux did. I was also told by my father that I was tickling Ethan too much. How can you tickle a baby too much? He loved it. Bill is dumb. Sorry about that mini rant. I just can't stand people making comments about how I should raise MY son. I'm the one with him 24-7. I think I know a little better than everyone else about what I should and shouldn't do with him. Bla. I have taken Ethan out to eat a few times recently and for the most part he has been excellent! He behaves in the highchair and plays with his toys. He doesn't behave in his stroller though! I brought him to the mall and he was throwing a fit. I took him out and put him in his carrier and he didn't want that either. He would only stop screaming if I actually held him. Then I held him and he wanted to sleep. I put him in his stroller and gave him a bottle and he passed out. That didn't last long because he wanted to roll onto his tummy but he was buckled in and couldn't so he started crying again! I ended up having to hold him while he slept so he wouldn't scream. I wish I could have just left but my friend was still shopping :/ On the plus side he does pretty well in shopping carts now! Woo hoo! Also we installed Ethan's big boy carseat in the truck. I need to buy another cheap one though for when I'm with other people! Those things are so difficult to put in though (at least the one we have is). Hopefully it won't be too hard when I try putting it in other people's vehicles. Ethan is sleeping through the night for the most part now too!! At his appointment the doctor asked if he was sleeping through the night yet and he wasn't. She said we needed to let him cry it out because at his age he shouldn't rely on a bottle to go back to sleep and should be sleeping all night. After a few rough nights Ethan starting sleeping all night! He doesn't like to sleep until like 1 am and likes to wake up at 7:30 but it's better than him waking up every couple hours! Recently Ethan has been waking up around 4-5 am every day and refusing to fall back asleep unless we get him. That kind of sucks. We try letting him just cry and go back to sleep but he won't! Oh well, with time he will get better at it. Anyway I can't think of anything else at the moment but I'll post again once I have more fun stuff to say!