Nine months!

Wow, we’ve fallen behind with the blog! Oscar hit the nine month mark last Thursday!

We missed out on his eight month photo with Raggy because we were in Fiji, and there’s been loads of developments since month seven! Oscar now has six teeth – four on top, two down the bottom. And that’s not all that’s new – he’s also learned some sweet new skills! About two weeks ago, he spontaneously started clapping, whilst he was standing on Poppi’s lap. Better yet – this skill also translates to giving high fives! Possibly the most important life skill already conquered before his one-year birthday. Nice!

Oh and about five minutes after his first bout of clapping, he waved goodnight to everyone! (Yes, waving is a new skill. Yes, waving counts as a skill.)

He’s also become rather a chatty little man – an early indication that he’s definitely his mother’s son. For the most part it’s babble, but he’s pretty good at “Mummum” and “Daddad”, as well as “Bubbub”. One morning, Kristy passed him over to me and I said to him, “Hello Oscar!”, to which he very clearly replied, “Hi Dad”. Now, I realise it was just a random string of noises that coincidentally sounded like the right thing to say, but both Kristy and I heard it, and for a moment we were both stunned! Logically, we then repeated “Hello Oscar!” to him over and over again, in the hopes for a repeat performance, but he just smiled at us like we were loonies. If I could have read his thoughts, I’ve no doubt he was thinking, “Why do they keep saying hello to me? People are weird; better just keep on smiling at them.”.

Ahh, what a little champ.