Obligatory messy food post

Sigh.  I have never been a big fan of the messy baby with food all over its face thing.  I know.  I'm a humbug.    I have generally gone out of my way to prevent J from getting food all over himself.  He eats sloppy stuff from a spoon or not at all.  Seriously, I know, I'm a humbug.  

Imagine my surprise when I found that the nifty new teething biscuits that I bought him were incredibly messy.  And... I thought it was cute!  What?!?  What is the matter with me?  This isn't cute.  It's gross.  Isn't it?  Ok, I give up.  It's cute.  I had to get pictures.  A lot of pictures.  (Don't quit before you get to the last picture!!!)

Somebody is 9 months old!

I am amazed that time has flown by this way.  J is already 9 months old!!  Can you believe it?

He is also, apparently, too old now for me to take pictures of him the way that I have every month until now.  Part of me is a little sad about that, because we had a good thing going.  :)  Every month I have taken pics of him next to my giant panda bear.  I have also taken pics of him on a black sheet, with me standing over him on a chair.  Honestly, the latter are some of my favorite pics of him.  Alas, the moment I put him down today to take his picture he rolled over onto his belly, then immediately pushed himself up into a sitting position.  I couldn't get him to lay down for the pics at all.  So for the first time, I can't add to my collection.  :(  Ah well.  He is still adorable!

Here are examples of the pics I've taken every month until now:

And here is my adorable nine month old baby boy:

Could he be any cuter?  Yes, yes, I'm biased.  But he really is adorable.

Next I tried the floor pics.  I put him down, climbed up onto my chair, and this is what happened:

So I gave up, and got down off the chair to take some pics of him the way he apparently wanted them taken.

I tried to move him to take them with a different background.

But my little wiggle worm didn't want to stay in one place.

Nor did he want to stay sitting down!

Then he got a little cranky.

So we took a break to eat some puffs.  Then I tried to take a couple more pics, but he decided that it would be more fun to eat his 9 month sticker.  And really, who I am to say that's not the best use for the sticker?  :)

Happy 9 months to my sweet baby boy!

Really mom? Really?

Ok, sure mom, I get it, you have a new toy and want to play with it.  But I'm really not in the mood to have my picture taken.

For real.

Honest, I'm just not in the mood. 

WHY are you still pointing that camera at me? 

Not gonna look.

Grr.

See these teeth?  That's as close as you'll get to a smile.

La la la.  I'm not looking.  

What is your deal?

Maybe I can figure out how to get out of this crib...

About to tell you what I really think!

No more!  I can't stand it! 

Please make it stop.

Please?

You owe me for this one mom.  Big time.