Thankfully that didn’t happen! You were taking steps but you hadn’t chosen to walk by yourself yet and I’m so grateful I didn’t miss it! We had weddings and trips during this month of your life and your Grammie and Mimi took great care of you when we weren’t home. I’m grateful for the help but also so grateful that that season of a lot of commitments is over. I cherish my days with you and I hated missing just one. You are such a little man….. and you’re a little man with a bit of a feisty side! This is the month when you really started to find your lungs and your attitude! Your teeth have never been so cute and your fuss-face is precious. Sometimes it’s hard to tell a scrunchy smile from a fuss-face and I love it.

Rhetty, you are so so loved. Graham tries to love on your but he’s still grabbing you around the neck instead of the waist like we tell him. Evy loves you and somehow still manages to pick you up and carry you everywhere! You’re getting close to the end of nursing. I can feel it. The trips didn’t help that at all!!! I cherish that literal connection to you… even when it happens in the middle of the night when I know you’re capable of sleeping through the night!!

This month you experienced your first Halloween (as Flounder from the Little Mermaid) and the pumpkin patch! I can’t wait to see you at Christmas!

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