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9 months old! Since I last wrote, Elan has been traveling--and I don't mean on a plane. He is definitely getting around these days. We are calling it pre-crawling, though I don't know if he will actually crawl. He uses his arms and drags the rest of his body. It looks like hard work, but he refuses to put his legs/knees up under himself. He is getting around enough to get into trouble.
He has tried ground beef pureed, and he didn't really like it. We worked on it for a week, and maybe it was the texture he didn't like. Today we tried chicken pureed for the first time, and he seemed to like it better. It was much smoother in texture.
He is getting his bottom two teeth. Both have broken through the skin now, but they are slow in coming in.
Today he was weighed and measured, and he weighs 19 lbs 2 oz and is 28 1/2 inches long. This is about 50th percentile for length and between 10 and 25th percentile for weight. Guess we can't say he is a fat baby anymore. (Maybe he never was!)
In these pictures he is wearing his dinosaur outfit that makes him look like he is on safari, thanks to his grandparents.

Easter fun! We had our old gang of friends to our house on Saturday night, April 7th. Elan was with his buddy Will who is 10 weeks younger than Elan. Elan is enjoying getting on top of mommy and daddy's shoulders so the second picture shows that. The third and fourth pictures are Elan opening his basket from his Noni and Lito. His bunny bib was made by his great Aunt Barbara. (That was his church outfit too.) The last picture is of the McClain family after our Easter lunch.
We have just added yogurt to his diet, but that is about the only change. Saturday he did make some more progress towards crawling as he raised himself up on his knees and rocked back and forth.

8 months old--these pictures were taken on his 8 month old birthday. We also had him weighed so that we could calculate percentiles. He is 18 lbs 12 oz, and approximately 28 inches long (it is hard to get him to stay still to get his length). Although his whole family says how much he is growing, that is only about 28th percentile for weight and 52nd percentile for length. I guess he started out small, though, so he has come a long way.
In recent days we have seen him begin to do push-ups. He has been rolling over and getting up on his arms for several weeks. We keep waiting for him to learn to crawl by getting his legs involved. Just in the last few days he has put his legs under him a few times. He is definitely moving around the living room, just not by crawling.