9 Months

If I waited a week, I could just do a 10-months-old post, but I finally got around to taking some pictures of Ryan so I figured I would go ahead and post them. Some of Ryan’s highlights at 9 months:

* Learned to clap (he doesn’t doesn’t always do it in context, but he’s pretty cute anyway)

* Pulls himself up to everything and walks along. It’s surprising how hard it is to make dinner when he crawls into the kitchen and pulls himself up holding onto my legs so I can’t walk anywhere without him falling over)

* Has started to babble – the only distinct sound we’ve been able to make out is something like Da or Ada. He does say “dadadadadada” but I don’t think he is saying dada on purpose. 

* Likes to pick up little things and hold them in his fist. Sometimes he will put them in his mouth, and sometimes just likes to hold them in his hand for a while as he crawls around.

He is generally a pretty happy baby – he smiles and laughs easily, and we love having him in our family! (sorry about all the pictures…I had a hard time choosing. And I wanted to take some of him standing, but he was sitting on the kitchen table :)