Nine Months

Wow...Mr. Brantley is 9 months old.  Where did this year go? In 3 short months I will have a one year old. Crazy! Brantley is surprising us every day with what he is learning.  In the past month Brantley has started crawling.  He sometimes gets going to fast and face plants it, it is pretty funny.  He will also pull himself up to stand, and some times he thinks he can walk, and then he falls and gets mad.  Someday he will figure it out though.  Along with pulling himself up he has tried climbing a few things, luckily he hasn't found the stairs yet. Although I'm pretty sure that will happen any day now. He has also started saying "da da da da"  and that is all we hear any more.  I really don't think we will be able to make him be quiet once he starts talking. He still loves to eat and if we would let him he would eat ALL day.  He prefers to feed himself and doesn't like it too much when I feed him baby food.   This little guy brings so much joy to our lives.  

Fall

Today was such a beautiful day and Brantley was in such a great mood I thought I would take him outside to take some pictures.  Needless to say he was much more interested in the the leaves and he may or may not have eaten some of them.  The only smiling pictures I got of him were of his cheesy grin. But I think he enjoyed his time playing in the leaves and I definitely enjoyed being outside!

Of course he had to watch the car as it drove by

And did I mention he is on the move? He does a part crawl, dragging legs, and launching himself forward maneuver to get around.  Just the other day he pulled himself up to stand, I am so not ready for that stage but I don't think there is any slowing him down!