Tate- 9 months!

Tate turned nine months old on August 12th, and he started to crawl right around that time!

He is still such a little guy. (:  At his check-up he weighed only 17#3oz (8th %ile) and was 29"long (65th %ile)

 He looks around for Ronan and Griffin when I bring him out of his room in the morning, and gets SO excited when he sees them!  It has been so fun watching Tate interact more & become a little playmate for his big brothers (: 

Looking for Griffin in the firetruck:

Tate likes all kinds of food, especially big boy food that he can pick up & feed to himself. (:

One day he noticed the stairs...

...but only got this far.

He wasn't quite sure what to do with the stairs yet. (;

Here is Tate's newest trick:
How big is Tate? "So Big!"

He got his 2nd tooth...along with a runny nose ):

I knew it would happen any day, but I was hoping he would hold off a little while longer.  Tate figured out how to climb the stairs:

I know when he's doing it because he starts crawling really fast & giggling as if to say, "Look at me, Mom!" This boy is officially on the move! (: