Little Puppy

For Tyler's safety we have a couple of gates set up in the house.  They keep him in the kitchen, living room and our bedroom area so that he can't get up the stairs.  The main gate slides open and closed so that Zac can get up to the play room and come and go as he pleases.  Tyler is 9 months old now and has been itching to climb the stairs and about a week ago, we finally let him.  We stood right behind him in case he fell and he climbed right up all 16 or so steps laughing with delight the whole way!

Last night Zac and I were headed upstairs to play and Tom was holding Tyler and I thought he was bringing him up right behind us so I left the gate open for him.  Instead though, Tom put Tyler down and neither of us realized that we'd left the gate open.  Within minutes Tyler was up almost the entire flight of stairs all by himself and no one even knew he was doing it!  Scary to say the least!  What is this kid going to be doing by the time he's a year old???

Another funny thing is Tyler's favorite sound to make right now is this growling sound.  He crawls all over the place growling like a little puppy and we just laugh!  The other night, Tyler had already eaten dinner so he was crawling around while the rest of us sat and ate.  He loves to play underneath the table in the kitchen which is where he was when Zac dropped a piece of bread.  It was really like we had a little puppy under the table.  There was Tyler growling and playing and as soon as that piece of bread hit the floor, he snatched it up and spent the entire meal sitting under the table eating it!