Tanner at 9 months

Tanner at 9 months:

* He loves being with his dad. He just gets so excited when he comes home from work

* He has been pulling himself up

* Crawls everywhere and gets into everything.

*When he knows he isn't supposed to do something he looks back at us and smiles then does it anyway.

* He's recently figured out how to take the toilet paper off the roll and the vent off the floor in the bathroom and tried to shove a roll of toilet paper down it.

* Loves bananas

* Fake sneezes to get attention

* Takes short naps, but is doing much better sleeping during the night.

* Loves playing with his cars, mom and dad's keys, reading books, seeing his Aunty Meena, playing legos

* And loves when we are all together in the same room.

Crawling

Well I guess we need to baby proof. Tanner started to crawl on Saturday. It's so cute. He does this little frog hop with his legs. We love it.

I hope they call me on a Mission!

The Future Elder Blackburn

Elias and Tanner

Tanner's cousin Elias came over today. They are so cute together. Elias just turned 6 months old and just loved Tanner's exersaucer.

Elias: "Tanner I think I have something wrong with my gums, can you look?"

Tanner: "They look ok to me."

Green Beans

My mom and dad bought me a pressure cooker for my birthday this year and today my mom came over and helped me bottle green beans for Tanner.

Dan and I don't really like green beans but Tanner loves them. Making your own baby food is so much cheaper and better than buying it.

Yum! Yep Tanner loves his green beans.

Tanner's 6 months

We got Tanner's pictures taken last month and just got them back.

My Aunt does such a great job.

Our little BYU fan !

At 6 months:

Tanner weighs 19 lbs 9 oz and is 27" long

At 7 month he is now

20 lbs and 28 1/4" long

His favorite things:

- Playing with Grandma's Legos

- reading books

- playing and laughing with Dad

- his exersaucer

-walking around in his walker - he mostly goes backwards

- making lots of squealing and loud noises

- digging in the dirt and helping mom weed the garden

- being outside

Things he's tasted:

- Green beans- loves them

- Rice cereal with bananas

-Apple sauce

- Peaches

- Carrots-Didn't really like these at first but he'll eat them

- Peas- same with the carrots, he'll eat it

- Squash - loves it

Things he doesn't like:

- has a hard time wanting to take naps with there are things going on around him

Things he can do:

- Sat up at 4 1/2 months

- Roll at 6 months

- drank from a cup and a sippy cup

- smile at self in the mirror

-talk on the phone to his aunts and uncles - just baby noises, but he loves hearing their voices

- Scoots around to get places

- rolls around to get places

- Reaches for everything and anything he can get his hands on

-Gives the best hugs

- Can say Mama and Dada (he says mom more) ;)

- can open and close drawers and pull things out of them

- has the best smile with a twinkle in his eye

It's been so fun having Tanner in our family and watch him grow. We are so blessed.

Sunday's are a day of rest

It's so cute when Dan and Tanner get to take naps together.

Tanner usually only takes 1/2 hour naps 2 to 3 times a day, but this after noon he's been asleep for 2 hours. What a great afternoon.