Stairs!

Alex has been interested in climbing up on Ben's stool for a couple of weeks. A couple of days ago, with Ben and I upstairs (without him!) Alex decided to take matters into his own hands. I heard a bit of rumpus downstairs and Alex had made it up a couple of stairs - and then promptly fell down. Today he climbed the entire flight of stairs, by himself, twice!

Heading toward walking

Alex (now 9 1/2 months) is REALLY interested in being up on his feet. We just got back from Minnesota and he wanted to spend most of the airport time being up on two feet, and "walking" around holding onto our hands. Today Daddy got him pushing Ben inside the red wagon, all the way down the hallway, and out onto the patio. So proud!

Alex is also waving "bye bye" a lot, and is really interested in books. Sleeping has been troublesome lately, though. He's waking up multiple times at night, and often won't go back to sleep without a fight. We just moved him into Ben's room (which Ben is super excited about) but we parents are exhausted. Hopefully there is a next chapter on the sleep front...