Nine Months!

It's taken me a week to get to this post but Alex is nine months old!  He's crawling, climbing, standing & even taking a few steps!  He can balance while standing for quite awhile & now will take 3-6 steps by himself before dropping down to crawl.  It probably won't be long until he's toddling around the house all the time.  Will that mean I have a toddler instead of a baby??  Not sure I'm ready for that!

He's babbling a lot & says dada & mama but I'm not sure it's on purpose (at least to reference Michael & me).  He also had a big development this past week.  He's been learning to wave his hands but this week he did it when I said "are you ready to go bye bye?" at Wal-Mart - on his own!  He's figured out the words "bye bye" mean wave your hand.  It's so cute!  He also can give high fives.  Genius school!

Once again, it was a challenge to get a good nine month photo.  But here's what I got!

 Making a break for it over the arm of the chair

 Luckily, there were some soft pillows (and mama helped too)

 Free from this silly photo shoot!

 This is what happens when you take a second to check your email on your iPad

 "What?  I'm not supposed to be up here?"

Hope everyone had a fabulous weekend!