Just checking in with a little update on Joel. He's sprouted his first two teeth, lower central incisors. The right one popped through two weeks ago and the left one about 3 days ago. I can see his uppers are on the way, also. He's taken to standing on his own, squating and pressing up to stand. He's quite pleased with himself about this. He frequently picks things up and stands up and says, "Ha!" in his growly little voice. He's picking up more words lately as well. So far his list includes, Dada, Mama, No-No, Da-Bah (the ball), and uh oh. I think we hear Da-Bah about 500 times a day. The boy is ball obsessed already. He's also signing Milk still and we are working on Food and All Done as well as signing other words as I remember to do them. He can also say Hi and wave. It's really cute. He has a Rose Parade wave. :)
He's back to sleeping through the night 10-12 hour stretches. Thank goodness. I was struggling for a while there with the teething waking him up frequently. He's started taking long morning naps and short afternoon ones which is interesting to me. The girls were always the opposite. That's about it. He has his 9 month well visit next week. We're a couple of weeks late, but that's ok. :)
