Oliver and Emily Jozwiak: 9 months old

Today Oliver is 9 months old and he is getting himself into all sorts of mischief!! I seem to spend most of my day picking him up and moving him away from places he shouldn't be, LOL!! It's still the same old things he's into - plug sockets and power cords!! And he's discovered the stairs going down to the basement and he can crawl over to them in lightning speed so I definitely need an extra pair of eyes!! Talking of crawling, he is now doing really well at proper crawling rather than dragging himself across the ground. And he is trying to pull himself up to stand. As you will see from the video, the windowsills here are the perfect height for an Oliver to put his hands on and try and pull himself up. I don't think it'll be too long before he's successful. You will see he is wearing a cute pair of moccasins that Grandma Sandy bought him. These are helping him to grip on the wooden floor when he's trying to heave himself up!!

The eating is still going really well most of the time. Oliver's favourite food by a long way is toast! He munches his way through a slice of brown toast every morning and gets so excited when I put it on his tray! He is also pretty good with veggies and fruit. Yesterday he munched on a slice of red pepper when we out at lunch and last night I tried yoghurt again and he loved it (plain yog with pear puree mixed in).

Not much else to report. The house stuff is moving along - just over 4 weeks until we complete now. We are actively looking for cars as well but don't have one yet. Maybe this weekend we'll get it sorted out :-) It's a big weekend for sales so we need to go furniture shopping as well!!

Anyway, have a fab long weekend everybody - the weather here is supposed to be nice so I hope it's the same in the UK!