The Mixed-Up Adventures of the Merry Mederich's.

I have been slacking on my blogging; no good.  I missed Soren's 7 and 8 month updates as well as Via's 2 year, 2 month update.  So, let's get caught up! Soren will be 9 months on February 21, and is a wonder to behold.  Cheeks.  Rolls.  Massive amounts of baby love going on when you snuggle this kid.  He is basically crawling.  Technically it's just an army crawl, but he gets up on all fours all the time.  He just hasn't put the two together yet.  He moves so fast.  It's hard for us to keep up.  He goes for the dog food.  We pick it up in the nick of time.  He wails.  He's headed into the bathroom.  We shut the door.  He wails.  He's a mostly happy kid, but is not super thrilled when he doesn't get what he wants. Soren is 100% bottlefed.  Even though it was my choice, it still makes me sad that I'm not nursing anymore.  We no longer feed him at his nighttime wake-ups (more on that later), ...