9 months already!?!

Gage turned 9 months old on the 19th, and it sure doesn't seem like he should already be that old!! He is doing great, learning new things everyday and growing like a weed. He is the happiest little guy ever! There isn't a day that goes by that we don't have a stranger tell us these exact words... "that sure is a happy baby you got there". Everywhere we go someone is sure to tell us. We go to the doctor today for his 9 month check-up so I'm curious to see how much he has grown. To us, he seems to be average in size, but anytime someone asks how old he is and we tell them they seem so surprised and we often get "wow, he's gonna be a football player"...Which I think is crazy because he may be a little tall but he's not fat or chunky at all! He never stops moving so I don't think it's possible for him to get chunky, although he eats ALL the time and thinks he needs to eat everything we eat. I think it's his head full of crazy hair that may throw people off and make him look older then he is. He's all over the place, pulling up, but not taking any steps yet. Nothing seems to scare him so far. He LOOOOVES dogs, being hung upside down and swimming! We are signing him up for swim lessons and he will hopefully start in July. He's a little fish and people just laugh at him when we are in the pool and of course he just eats it up. He loves to get everyone's attention and he just recently started doing this head to the side on his shoulders and grin like he's shy, but he there isn't a shy bone in the boys body. He wants everyone and anyone to talk to him. Within the past few days he's started this wanting to be held all the time phase and it started once Ted got home from Scotland, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not. I will try to get a picture blog posted tonight, but for now I have a little guy screaming and pulling at my feet!