Crawling for Christmas

Here is a video of Tucker crawling towards his first Christmas gift ever!

9 month check up

We went to the doctor yesterday for Tucker's nine month check up. His quick stats, he is 29 1/2 inches long (87% for height!) and 21 lbs 3 oz (62% for weight). He has started to level off with his weight gain now that he is mobile and the pediatrician said this will continue. His ear infection has cleared up which is really good news since we are flying tomorrow. Overall he looks really healthy and is tracking right along for his age. He did not get a flu shot or his blood drawn b/c I didn't want anything to possibly interfere with him being happy for our travels. I really like the pediatrician we met with but she doesn't have any children of her own so she is not my favorite. That's about it! We leave for Reno this weekend.. wish us luck on the flight there. It's at night so hopefully Tucker will sleep the entire time.

Santa

Today we went to see Santa at Phipps Plaza in Atlanta with my friend Meredith, her mom and Robert. Neither of the boys were crazy about Santa, but needless to say, we still got some cute pics. Better luck next year!

Merry Christmas

We actually got Tucker to pose for a Christmas picture in front of our tree. I love his little red pants! Happy Holidays to our friends and family!!

The Honeymoon has ended..

Well, everyone said this time would come. And it has. The days of putting Tucker on a blanket to play with his toys while we do something else are over. Let's see.. today already he has eaten wrapping paper, choked on wrapping paper, bit my finger while I removed the wrapping paper from his mouth, tried to turn on the DVD player (you can tell he is a Cullen), pulled himself up on the exersaucer, played with some of our books and crawled across the room for the remote. Guess I have to be careful what I wish for.
He likes Grandma Emmie's paintings..

It has started....

Well... we should have known that the only way to get Tucker to start crawling is to bribe him with food. We put a banana in front of him and it got him moving. Only a few small inches, but at least he went forward instead of backwards like he normally does. Check out the video.

Trouble...

I couldn't help but post this picture of Tucker..Andrew and I are really in for it once he gets a little older... there is nothing but trouble on his face here.

Taking naps

Tucker has been napping really well lately, but for some reason this morning he did not want to fall asleep. I noticed that he got very quiet so I went upstairs to check on him and this is what I found....
Apparently he has learned how to go from laying down to sitting up in his crib.

We then headed over to Meredith's house. I watched Robert so she could go to the salon to get a hair cut. Tucker finally decided that he would take a nap once he was in Robert's crib. He looks pretty comfortable. Notice his leg on the bumper pad!

Standing

So Tucker has been standing on his own lately. He lasts about a minute and then his legs kind of give out and he flops down on the floor.

He is concentrating really hard here...

Turkeys!

Today Tucker and I went to Meredith's house.

Reese and Tucker had fun playing in this box!