Well...you crawl all over the place, say dada all the time and mama (when you're sad or hungry), pull yourself up on EVERYTHING! In fact, sometimes you let go of whatever you are holding onto and just stand there for a few minutes before you fall on your cushioned little bottom. You give me a heart attack...but it never phases you! You being so mobile has allowed you to be even more of a messer! You pull things off the tables, throw anything you can get your little hands on... We have had to take down a lot of our picture frames and move anything fragile!

You love playing with your trucks...you sit there and push them around forever. Such a boy! It is just instinct for you to know that the trucks should be driven. You also will "drive" all your toys... everything becomes a car. You have a certain book that we just have to read to you every single day. You have your own little library, but the one you scream and cry for is the book "First Words," the free book we received from the pediatrician at your six month check up. It's just a book of random words: girl, boy, shirt, pants, socks, shoes, banana, leaf, etc etc. I know the reason you love the book is for the kitty cat that's at the end! You grab the book and kiss it...you pat it...and just get super excited! The next page is the doggie and you do the exact same thing! It's adorable! Sometimes when you are fussy, I'll just start saying those words and you immediately stop crying....even without the book!! Ha! So cute! Obviously, you love kitty cats...but you're also terrified of them at the same time!  We were at Ma and Poppy's house and they have Baxon; every time you see him you SHRIEK with excitement!  You try to jump off of our laps to get him!  The other day, I leaned down with you so you could pet him and you were not too excited to actually get to touch him....haha.  In fact, you will crawl as fast as you can to get him...and then just FREEZE!  Eventually, you just crawled around him and went to their cat statue instead.  Ma says you are a genius baby!  (Duh!) She says the fact that you can put two and two together that Baxon and the cat statue are both kitty cats, even though they look so different, is very impressive.  GENUIUS!!! :)

I scheduled your nine month pictures / Halloween pictures for next weekend... I can not wait to see you in your little monkey costume!  You are so cute in everything that you wear...but you are ESPECIALLY cute as mama and daddy's little monkey!   

I might have ordered some stuff for your first birthday today....haha.  I am absolutely ridiculous!  You aren't even nine months yet.  We won't tell your daddy! :)

Your daddy celebrated his 30th birthday on the 5th... What an old man! :) It was a calm night at home... We went to dinner at the Topeka Steakhouse and then just came home and relaxed. We celebrated with my family that Sunday; your Poppy made chili and we had cake and presents. We bought him a new phone... As much as he loves you, he needed a phone he could keep videos and pictures on. Now he gets to show all the guys he works with all the adorable stuff you do!!

You continue to sleep in between daddy and I... you are like a little magnet!  You have to be right up against him or me... you do not like to just sleep in the middle...you basically like to be right on top of us.  I love cuddling with you though...I know that I do not have too much more time with you as a little cuddle bug.  You are just growing up so fast... although I love all the new stages you are reaching and milestones you are passing....I know that I will blink and one day you will be grown.