Ethan is 9 months old today!!

It's official - Ethan has now been with us as long as he was in the womb! I thought I'd take a second to note some of the things he's doing these days.

Recently Ethan has learned to copy our actions. It started with him sticking out his tongue. Of course we all look like idiots as we're standing around him sticking our tongues out, trying to get him to copy us. Now he has started clapping and understands that he's getting praise when we clap for him. It takes me twice as long to feed him baby food now because he wants to clap in between each bite! We're working on learning to wave but we're not quite there yet.

He has also learned to turn the pages in a book rather than just immediately eating them. He's not crawling yet but he's getting there. He's FINALLY napping in his crib (although not for long periods of time) and sleeping from about 7 p.m. to 4:15 every night. He'll usually go back to sleep for another hour and a half but then he's up. Needless to say Jen's. been forced to become an early bird like Blake!