Eight Complete, Onto Nine

It's hard to believe that Ezra just turned 9 months old.  Crazy how fast we got here. It seems that there were a lot of accomplishments in his eighth month. Here's our list of accomplishments, likes and such. 

-the "Ezra Crawl" (he's not a traditional crawler). He started with the army belly crawl but now crawls with one knee, leg/foot and two hands
-getting from a laying position to sitting position
-pulling himself up to standing
-standing and cruising along the ottoman (started this a few days before he turned 9-months) 
-walking with his walking toy
-first time eating: broccoli, banana, carrot, apple/sauce, mango  pear, kale. He likes his food smooth and without chunks or much texture (he gags with texture/chunk) 
-still has no teeth
-first time going to Urgent Care(and over Christmas holiday travel) -first time having pink eye, hurting ears and throat (and his first taste of the pink liquid Amoxicillin,(he liked but what's not to like?!) and Ciprofloxacin(he hated the eye drops) 
-frist time to Disneyland
-first Christmas
-first time to California and meeting some aunts,uncles and cousins
-chasing after, and laughing at, Zeus
-playing with the door guard/wall mount
-knocking down towers
-still loves to charm others
-still loves to shake his head when he's tired but now he does it to see if he can get others to copy him
-laughs when we do animal sounds
-loves to smack his lips
-still loves the mirror
-still loves people, faces and trying to charm with his smiles