What can I say?

Busy. That pretty much sums it up. Get ready for a load of updates. :)

Our BECKETT is growing up! Months 8-10 have been so fun. You now have explored every inch of our house, and are vocal. Just growing up too fast!

These first few pictures (above) you were the lighting tester at a photoshoot for our friends, the Bells. Totally unplanned, but utterly scrumptious pictures!

Some highlights:

• LOVE water! When you hear the bath turn on, you speed crawl to the bathroom. You love the feel the water come out of the spout. Also love swimming!
• Are 100% mobile and in to everything! You are now a speed crawler, and pull up to everything. Crawled into the dishwasher. Love the toilets. Infatuated with the power button on the TV. 
• FIRST WORD: Da-da. (at 9 months) Go figure. Love when dad comes and gets you out of bed in the morning (usually 6:45). And then when you're done nursing in mom's bed, you yell, "DA-DA"! To get him to come and get you. Also say mama... sounds a little more like bma-ma. 
• Other sounds: clicking tongue, indian sound, "shhh", lip stumming.
• And yes... you've even started yelling and throwing some fits. You are still a great baby, but I think you just finally figured out you need to speak up a little bit to get what you want. 
• Your "fits" started about 10 months old after you got sick for the first time. You got the flu in Denver and things just aren't quite as magical. You are still an amazing baby though! We just only go days without hearing you cry instead of weeks! :)
• No more binkys. Use left thumb to get to sleep. When we walk in your room to put you down, you immediately lay your head on our shoulder and start sucking your thumb. Lucky for us you only do it when you're tired.
• You are the smallest of our boys at this age, but we did finally move you to a rear-facing toddler car-seat. You may not get to the mandatory 20lbs. by your first birthday, so we'll see how long you have to sit backwards. 
• Church is a constant battle now that we don't have your infant carrier. You just want to get down and explore, or yell. 
• Started pointing. And love to use your pointer finger to go up our noses and in our eyes and ears! And pull mom's earrings.
• Waving. First would open and close your fingers, now you do the full arm wave.
• Also scrunch your face in a cute smile when you want to flirt.
• Dancing... favorite song, "If you're happy and you know it". 
• You no longer like baby food very much, or applesauce (after going through a CASE of jars). Now you prefer to feed yourself, but still only have 2 teeth on the bottom.
• Yes, you finally got your FIRST TOOTH at 8 months. And still only have the 2 on bottom.
• You spend your days on-the-go with your older brothers. Wishing you could everything they can do. When you hear them go outside, you crawl to the back door and try and get out. When you hear them turn on the Wii, you crawl over and start playing with the remotes. When you hear them go downstairs to the basement, you crawl to the door and yell to go down.

Although you don't know how to go down stairs yet, you WENT down the stairs once (at 8 months). Yes, the door to the basement was left open, and mom and dad heard what sounded like a bowling ball tumble down the stairs (hard wooden stairs covered in hard plastic). Mom started screaming, before you did. We rushed to the top of the stairs and didn't see you, as you had fallen off the landing too... probably after slamming into the cement wall at the bottom of the stairs, as we found you laying on the cement floor. We took your clothes off, checked your bones, watched for signs of a concussion, iced your poor bruised cheek.... and remarkably your came out of it with just a few small bumps. We felt awful. Sick. But you amazed us once again.