9 Months (and a bunch of updates)

How is it possible that he is already nine months old? This little guy just makes my heart happy. If you ask his Pop, he makes his heart happy too! I think he makes a lot of hearts happy. He's changed so much in just 9 months, he is now into EVERYTHING. I don't think walking is too far off. I can barely keep up with him now, I am in some major trouble once he is on two feet and running.

What's he doing at nine months?

-waving to everyone (even his own pictures hanging on the wall)
-saying, "hi" (it is actually pretty clear too!)
-figuring out toys (he knows which buttons to push on which toys to get the music to play)
-eating table food almost exclusively (just trying to use up the baby food that's left in the pantry-he's ready to be DONE with that)
-understanding more words (when we say, "Where's baby?" he will look toward the pictures of himself-so cute)
-giving big wet kisses (this actually depends on his mood-most of the time I can count on him giving me a big juicy kiss)
-understands "no" (however, he does not always obey this command-we have some work to do on that)

We love you sweet Marsh-Man! You are getting to be such a big boy. Could you just slow down a little? I want you to stay my baby.