Benjamin: 9 months

Another month passed for our sweet, smiley boy! 

Ben is spending a lot of time exploring the house, especially the kitchen. He tries to get in the cabinets as well as pull down the dish towels and stand up along the chairs/stools or under the kitchen table.
He's also started climbing the stairs. He often goes up one or a few and then turn around to see if we’re watching, which usually leads to falling. Right now he only does stairs with a dedicated spotter.
He starts to stand without holding on to anything. It quickly becomes his      favorite thing to do, and by mid-May he can stand for 5-10 seconds before falling.

He loves to swing!

We try giving Ben some people food—pancakes, a little chicken, peas, raspberries. The peas were well received; the other things not so much. Raspberries are sour...

Really sour...