Tiki poops 3 times in the morning!

He sleeps in my bed with me and in the morning when I get up to shower, I bring him down stairs where he is gated in the kitchen with his pee pads and by the time I come back down (about an hour later) he's done his 3 poops and is all ready asleep again in his crate! And then he'll usually go one more time at night. He's only 9 months, I know only a puppy still, but in just the past few months, his pooping has calmed down. He used to go what seeemd like every hour, but as he gets older, like I said, it's slowed down.