Recent Pictures

This is Marcus beaming after making it all the way up the stairs by himself....while chasing the cat. I'm having trouble loading video so as soon as I can I'll get the video of that event on here. I've been working with him on the stairs for about a month. Just showing him what to do. We have so many stairs I want to be proactive on that front. The day he learned how to take the stairs (last Friday) was also the day he fell down two of them. I caught him before he tumbled, but it was still pretty traumatic for both of us. Now the gates are up when we're not in stair mode.
By the way he's 9 months old this week and that's a 12-18 month jumper. It's a little loose on him but so much easier to get on his long body. He still fits in some of his 9-12 stuff. We went to our friends house for dinner this weekend. They have two friendly cats and Marcus was in heaven. You can see the black kitty was too - in the clear box by Matt's feet. The three of them played legos. Our friends, Kirsten and Jen sent us home with the three soft FANTASTIC blankets stacked to the right. There's even one for Tubby!! They are the best comfy blankets - and now we don't have to fight over the other one they made for Marcus :)

Pulling up. He's getting really good at pulling up and then sitting down and then pulling up etc.... His speed has picked up on the crawling too!! I think we'll see him walking before 12 mo.

He's had this toy for a few months. But now that he can stand and play with it he has started to enjoy it.

This cube bookcase is so great to hold his toys and books. He bumps his head on it a lot though. He's now pulling up on it so I'll have to secure it to the wall. It's cheap and wobbly so it would come down on him pretty easily.