Month 9

At 9 months, Swe-cha has developed a lot of personality. His sense of humor is even more evident now and he likes laughing at Mommy and Daddy's antics.

Socially, there is some improvement. While he is still very wary of strangers (Aunt B told us that this is okay, you don't want your baby laughing and smiling when a stranger tries to take him, don't you ? O nga naman.), we're glad that he did let Tito C and Tito M carry him at the church during the Twincesses' baptism. At the reception, he also let Tita A carry him and slept while being carried by Tita R. Yay!

We still get a lot of "boy or girl?" questions from strangers, even when he's dressed in a baseball outfit or wearing an obviously-boyish hat (i.e. w/ a firetruck logo), when we go out but we take that as a compliment :)

Physically, he's able to stand up longer and longer now - mostly, while still holding onto his play yard fence. He is also able to let go and stand up on his own for a couple of seconds now before falling down. Mommy is so proud and I'm sure that Swe-cha knows it too because he would always - ALWAYS - look at Mommy and smile first before he lets go.

His favorite past time now is getting anything - a toy, a milk bottle, a burpcloth, etc - then he would crawl over and climb up the bed rails and then throw the item over to the floor. He would then lean over the bed rails to observe. It's fun to watch him do this but he sometimes gives Mommy a heart-attack when he leans over too far. He crawls too fast now and Mommy / Daddy has to be extra-vigilant and extra-fast in order to catch him.