9 Months (or ONE YEAR OLD!!!)

My little Emski hit his one year BIRTHday last week on January 12th (But for all intents and purposes I am still keeping track of his development at a 9 month old). I CANNOT believe it. There's no way that crazy, emotional, scary, wonderful dream of a day (or should i say few months) was a YEAR ago. Insane. I must have stepped into some time-space continuum or something.
I've always known Emmett was a miracle, but it was so cool when I took him for his year old well check yesterday. His pediatrician was blown away. He hadn't seen Emmett in a few months, and he kept saying, "This is Amazing."
I asked, "Do Preemie's not normally catch up so fast like this?"
And he answered emphatically, "No, quite honestly this is astounding. I've never seen anything like it before."
He kept chuckling with disbelief at the smart little chunker sitting in front of him and couldn't get over how his growth chart just skyrockets STRAIGHT up.
Emmett is indeed a miracle in every way, shape, and form and will always be considered to be my greatest gift in life.

Here's some things he's doing now:

• Has 4 teeth! The ones are top are the two vampire ones. lol. And on the bottom he has the middle two.
• Talking up a storm (Dada, Mama, Baba) and all other forms of babble and inflection. He loves to play mimic-ing games
• He's a "singer". He loves to do his babble in high pitched yowls that sound like he's yodeling
• Wearing 12 month clothes
• Sometimes sleeps through the night, sometimes wakes up around 6 for a few sips (still co-sleeping with us, but we're going to start transitioning him now)
• Rolls over in his sleep til he's up against me or Jared, then snuggles in.
• His new favorite game is for me to place his toy basket in front of him, and he entertains himself for  half an hour taking one toy out and a time. Then I fill it up again, and he grabs the basket and repeats.
• Loves bathtime
• Can hold himself standing for long periods of time when he holds onto something
• Still moving around mostly by pivoting, rolling, and army crawling. But starting to rock on hands and knees. I think he's going to start really crawling soon.
• Has decided baby food is beneath him. He turns his nose up and shakes his head no at it. He only wants finger foods or "big people" food now.
• Loves to be around other little kids and he really plays with them. It's so cute!
• Loves shopping in the shopping cart (but he's only allowed to with the cart cover) haha.

He's growing up so fast, and I'm so happy to be home with him and see every single little development in his personality and skills. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!