9+ Months

We're a little late on our 9-month check up for Ephraim but we went today. He weighs 21 lbs 9 oz (staying at 75th percentile) and is 29 1/2 inches tall (staying at 95th). He is such a mellow happy baby! He loves following his brother and playing chase (both boys crawling around). He has discovered he can power-crawl down the hallway and explore mom & dad's bedroom or the forbidden office before anyone realizes he's gone. And yes, he found the tupperware cabinet!
Besides a doctor's appointment, we've had an interesting day. Ephraim went to bed at 9:30 last night and I was in bed before 10pm. Ephraim has been sleeping through the night with no problems lately, so naturally after I thought that, I knew tradition would hold true and we'd have problems. :) Ephraim woke up around 12:30am and had trouble going back to sleep. At 1:15am he was asleep again and I finally got to go back to bed. Minutes later I hear Gabriel crying for me. This is very unusual, so I go check to see what's wrong. Nothing, except that he's asking for milk (which might mean he's hungry). An hour later, same thing. At 3am when he came into our room, I couldn't take it (oh why didn't he eat dinner like he was suppose to?!), so I laid down with him in his bed. It was clear he was wide awake. But since I was anything but awake, I made him stay in bed for the next hour. At 4:30am I gave up and we got up for the day. I wasn't sure how long he'd last. I was wasted at 1pm. At 2:30pm, I sat down to give Ephraim his bottle and put him down for his nap. Gabriel curled up next to me and was asleep in seconds. Poor thing. It's 5:30pm and we finally were able to wake him up. He just rolled over and snored whenever we tried before. Something tells me this will be another interesting night.