9 Months

I swear I say this every month, but I seriously can't believe how fast time is flying with Patton! I know the next time I turn around he'll be starting kindergarten. LOL!

I took him to the doctor on Friday for his 9 month check up, and here are his stats:

Height: 29.75 inches (80th percentile)
Weight: 19lbs, 5.9oz (25th percentile)
Head circumference: 17.76 inches (40th percentile)

I was a bit concerned that his weight is only in the 25th percentile, but our doctor reassured me that as long as he's gaining weight, he's fine. He's just tall and skinny. . . like a true Evans! :)

The big event this month. . . . CRAWLING!!! We've been practicing it with him for weeks, and then one day, he just took off crawling from his bedroom to the toilet in the bathroom. Figures he'd crawl to the toilet before he crawls to me. Haha!

Now that he's crawling, he's not quite satisfied with it. He does an almost monkey crawl with one foot flat on the floor, trying to stand up as he's crawling. He's constantly trying to pull himself up onto anything, and experimenting with falling in not so graceful ways. I swear he has a new bruise every day. *sigh* The joys of mobility! :). With how intent he is on pulling himself up and standing, I wouldn't be surprised if he started walking before his 1 year birthday. But we'll see.

Patton has also become quite an eater. He LOVES to eat anything that we're eating. Some of his favorite foods are: avocadoes, bananas, Cheerios, crackers, and ice cream.

Patton LOVES to laugh and make other people laugh and smile. His new thing to do is to grab our faces and try to bite our noses, just because it makes us laugh. That boy!

He currently has 3 1/2 teeth right now. He cut an upper tooth the week of Halloween, and now he's cutting his second upper tooth. He's usually pretty good when it comes to teething, but this tooth that he's cutting has been stubborn and he's been in such pain from it. I'm sure that he and I both will be happier once it's broken through so that we can BOTH get some sleep. :)

I'm excited for the upcoming holidays and to experience it with our Little P!!

This is Halloween!

I hope that everyone had an enjoyable Halloween! We had such a blast watching Patton experience his first Halloween! It'll be more fun next year when he can participate a little more!

This is us at our ward Halloween party. We decided to be farmers and Patton was our chicken. I thought it was quite appropriate since he seems to squawk like a chicken half the time anyways! Hehe. FYI- I'm wearing a wig in this picture. . . my hair isn't that dark or that long!

He was so the cutest chicken I've ever seen! Not that I'm biased or anything! :)

Look at that face!

Sam had inventory on Halloween night, so Patton and I headed down to San Diego to hang out with Em, Matt and Luke. On Halloween we went to the San Diego zoo. Patton had fun looking at the elephants, pandas, giraffe, and rhinos. By that time both Luke and Patton were ready for naps. :)

Luke had fun looking at all the animals (especially the wild dogs) and running all around near the elephants while I was feeding Patton. Luke's quite an active one!

That night we watched Halloween movies, ate yummy food, and passed out candy. We agreed that the boys are still too little to go trick or treating, so we just hung out. We had a good time.

We had great plans to go to the Sea Life Aquarium on Tuesday, but we couldn't coordinate our boys' naps schedule. We'll have to go next time! Instead, we watched like 3 Harry Potter movies instead! It was awesome! :).

It was a lot of fun this year to see Patton take in all the sights of Halloween! That is my favorite part about seeing Patton growing up. . . seeing him experience everything for the first time!