9 Months and Summer in Beijing

I just turned 9 months last week and a lot has happened recently. Firstly I have got 4 teeth already; 2 up and 2 down and mostly without any problems but of course I like to bite everything and I also like to brush my teeth.

I am crawling very fast around the floor and especially to places my parents don't like me to go. I'm very interested to go to the bathroom and to the kitchen but I'm not allowed, there are so many interesting things I want to check out like cupboards and drawers. Also of course I like to go to the TV, DVD player etc because I just love all sorts of cables and lines.
I have some nice toys but in fact I like more to play with all kind of other things like empty boxes, bottles, shoes etc.

I can walk along the coffee table and the sofa and rise up everywhere I have something to hold on to and can even stand alone on my own some seconds.
I can climb the stairs up to second floor but I like to have somebody behind me in case so after every step I check if there is somebody there before i continue.

I'm out a lot every day both in my mother's car or in the pram and I like to go out, so many things to see. Sometimes or almost always people are bothering me though, they gather around me looking and talking and want to carry me, but I'm not always so happy abou that. Anyway it's nice people think I'm cute and I'm sort of starting getting used to it. Now I know how it is to popular and famous!

In China people go much more out for eating so I'm very often to restaurants with my parents and other friends but I don't think I'm much trouble; at least I don't cry although sometimes I'm noisy but that doesn't matter much here because everybody is noisy.

Oh, I almost forgot to tell the most important thing; the day I was 9 months old I said mama and papa for the first time. I think it was about time because my mother have told me this word over and over again for many months and I think I understand the meaning of it as well.