These monthly pictures creep up on me! A little late, but Reed is 9 MONTHS!! He has one top tooth that's poked through, and the other is just coming through the gums. He's sleeping through the night and FINALLY napping more than 30 minutes. He babbles a lot and laughs when I mimic him back. Today we were saying "Aba" back and forth and he thought it was so funny! He's eating food like a champ. No more baby food for this guy, he wants what we are eating. He eats noodles, green beans, toast, fruit, chicken, quesadilla, you name it. It's nice because he's great with his grip (perfected his pointer finger and thumb 'pinch' grip) and can feed himself more.

He absolutely LOVES his brother. Ian can SO easily make him smile, it's heart warming to watch. And Ian is such a great big brother, he loves to make him laugh, gives him hugs, every so often he'll say "aww he's so cute". The other day Reed woke up from a nap and Ian asked if he could go check on him, so I said yes. I heard him in his room talking to Reed, and Ian came running back to update me that he put a pacifier in his mouth. Then I heard Ian go back to Reed's room and say, "It's ok I'm here now" (because Reed had started crying again). Then when I went in to check on them Ian was reading him books and said to me, "no, I don't need you". He wanted some time alone with his brother. It was so cute.

Ok, on with Reed. He's into EVERYTHING. I can not keep up with this kid, he wears me out. He crawls FAST. He's crawling and getting into one thing from the other. Doing something like brushing Ian's teeth requires me to relocate Reed at least 5 times. He's either getting up into the toilet (or around the bottom which just grosses me out), getting into a trash can, pulling Ian's books down, pulling on Ian's hamper, or plant stand. I use the pack'n'play 1,000 times more for Reed than I ever did for Ian. He's worth every SECOND of the hard work, and seeing his sweet smile just melts my heart. He's a special one and I love watching his personality develop.

9 Month checkup: 20 lbs 1.6 oz, 27.8 inches

Ignore the hairy dog bed he's on. He loved crawling up on this and I couldn't resist snapping a picture.

I need to get better at taking pictures of them TOGETHER - but it's so hard. Neither one stops moving, Ian hardly poses for pictures anymore. But I'm going to keep trying. It's my goal to take more of them together before Reed turns one!

Reed was being SUCH a ham for the camera, check out these last two pictures - especially the last one. It makes me laugh!