Zander happenings

In the past week or so:
-Zander has started dancing to the music. Any music will do, even when Daddy turns on the metal channel. If he's standing he'll bounce up and down, if he's sitting he'll rock back and forth. It's the cutest darn thing ever!

-I picked him last week at my parents and my dad was playing paddy-cake with him and he clapped. From then on he's been clapping reguarly. He'll just do it whenever he feels like it but if you start clapping after he's clapping it's even better, he loves it! Tonight when I sang him ABC's and Old McDonald he clapped along!

-Yesterday Doug said he walked along the length of the couch and crossed over from the couch to the chair. Today he walked along the length of the bed. His love of standing also means he doesn't really want to sit. He doesn't want to sit in the caseat, the stroller, the high chair......it's a battle for mama to get him to sit anywhere.

-I took Zander to the mall play area this afternoon and if I sit him at the top of one of the little slides he leaps towards me. He also does this when we're swimming and I sit him on the side of the swimming pool, he just leaps off the edge. He's quite the daredevil!

Food!
-I gave Zan some Yo Baby yogurt on Sunday. He likes it OKAY, he doesn't love it and he doesn't hate it. He makes these really cute and funny faces. Doug gave him plums yesterday, he loved them! Zan and I went to Olive Garden with my family last night for Mickey's birthday and I got ministrone soup, he happily ate the beans and zuchini. And then he ate some of the mushy part of my eggplant.

We have 2 weeks of swim lessons starting next week!

Zander is 9 months old now, I can't believe it!