9 months old

Keegan Orlo Schmitz is now 9 months old and is fully becoming a little person and much less blob like. He can crawl the most rapid and hilarious army crawl and gets from point A to point B in no time at all. His traditional hands and knees style crawl is in place but much slower so he frequently slides rapidly on his belly all over the house. Unless he is on the grass then he let's as little of his body touch that strange stuff a possible.
Keegan can also pull up on just about anything. Pants. Gates. Couches. Dogs. Brothers. Legs. Chairs. Cabinets. Just about anything can get him up, getting down is another story. The last two weeks have been filled with cries of frustration as he is "stuck" up. He is beginning to cruise as well. And if he is holding on to grown up fingers he can and will walk (slowly and ploddingly) just about anywhere in the house.
Keegan has two top teeth and squeal to show them off. He smiles and laughs and screeches and is generally amazing. He is also utterly and totally obsessed with his momma. If mom is in the kitchen and Keegan playing in tr family room all is well until K hears his momma's voice. Then the whining and moaning immediately begins as he extracts himself from whatever he is doing to crawl, roll, cruise or slither his way to mom where he then pulls up and cries until he is held. Over and over and over all day long. It is precious to be so loved but it is amazing how much longer it takes to get things done while holding a 26+ pound lil man. I would never actually complain about a secure attachment or being loved but I will admit that sometime I sigh in frustration of how much longer it takes to complete each task.
Summer has finally begun and it is exciting to think about all the cool things that are going to happen in the next three months by the time Keegan turns one.

Blurg

Mommy and Daddy had the stomach flu this week. Keegan is teething this week. It is my last week of the school year this week.  We are SUPER busy and moderately stressed.
Poor lil man has been waking and fussy every 40 minutes to two hours all day (and night) long making for a long couple of days and nights.  Keegan has wanted to be held all the day- he doesn't even want to practice his super speed army crawl because he feels so crummy.
But perhaps there is a light at the end of the tunnel- tooth #3 popped through today! Top tooth- a big ole chomper (and his poor gum is so red and puffy).  Hopefully it's matching tooth comes soon and he can find some relief.

Up, up, up

Because time is apparently moving at the speed of light... Keegan has mastered pulling up on nearly everything he is surrounded by. This includes people, couches, toys, his brother, his crib, pillows,..... He looks SO big standing up and grinning. How did this happen already?!