9-month birthday

What we can do:
- sit independently, balancing as needed
- get down from sitting position

- creep around using elbows and feet
- babble, sometimes back and forth with each other
- turn in the direction of a voice
- react to a new voice before seeing the person
- react to the sound of a bottle being mixed in the next room
- recognize the word cookie and try to sign it
- feed ourselves toast, cherrios, and cookies (and cupcakes)

- chirp and squeal happily when we see Grandma
- work to get a toy out of reach
- play together independently for up to an hour at a time
- look for a dropped object
- blow raspberries
- sleep through the night once a week; up once for a bottle most nights
- remember where the water dish is and go for it every chance I can (Vanh)
- scream louder than anyone else (Max)