Not to be left out...

Our little Samuel is growing up so fast! He's now 10 1/2 months old. He weighed about 23 pounds at his 9-month checkup and was equally chubby and tall. To me, he seems just right! He can crawl, feed himself cheerios, say "da-da," pull himself up to standing position at the stairs (from where he sadly cries for Mommy while I'm fixing dinner), clap (almost), laugh at his brothers, splash in the bath (his all-time favorite activity), and entertain and bring joy to everyone who sees him. He's almost always fully dressed, so when he does end up in just a diaper, we think it's the cutest (and funniest, according to Tommy and Joey) thing ever.

In this picture, you can just barely see his "twofers," but those cute little teeth are in there--right at the bottom of his big smile. They came in when he was 6 1/2 months--exactly the same time his big brothers got their first two teeth! Now he has 2 or 3 teeth slowly growing in on top, so I knew I had to get this picture of his cute twofer smile before it changes!

Samuel is still the most darling, happy, funny, sweet baby. He's starting to get a little attitude when you take anything away from him, which is all the funnier. Soon he'll be toddling around, but I don't even like to think about that since he's my little Angel Baby.