My little boy is getting to be such a big boy! He'll be 9 months old tomorrow!

He's getting so good at eating cut up "table food" - he really likes it. He loves to feed himself, too. Last night's dinner was carrots, corn, string cheese and bologna. He really likes the cheese. He takes after his mommy on that one...

But, I still have a lot of the strained baby food in the pantry that I hate to waste, so he's still getting some of that. Now that he's so good at feeding himself, though, he's getting impatient with being literally spoon fed. He keep grabbing for the food, wanting to do it himself. Yesterday morning, I let him grab his bananas with mixed berries. Yep, hands in the puree, and then he put his hands in his mouth. Oh, did we have a mess! Little Mr. Independent. I wonder where he gets that? :)

He's also getting to be a champ on the stairs. We don't have gates up because we're leaving soon, so he's learning to crawl up them. He can do it really fast now! Fortunately with our split level house, there are only 7 stairs per staircase so he doesn't have far to go. He's not allowed to go down, but he may learn that soon.