Thursday, May 2, 2013

8 months

Life as we know it will never be the same. You are a mean-planking-crawling machine. Still have the best laugh out there and such a strong personality which always keeps us guessing-but thinking that's the just story line of most babies. Never a dull moment.


  • You weigh 15 lbs 11.5 ounces
  • Tried green beans, carrots, sweet potatoes, peas, squash, corn and bananas
  • As said before, you're crawling. You turned 8 months on Wednesday and Thursday after coming home from work we had a crawling boy. You were scooting and planking for a while and within a blink of the eye you were crawling...everywhere. It's so exciting, fun, and exhausting all in one
  • You pull up and stand any chance you get. Be it the crib (already lowered once and on it's way to another lowering...), person, toy box, ottomans, tv stand (get lots of 'no' and redirecting for that one...)-if you can pull up on it, consider it fair game
  • You're vocal. Always have been in some ways, but finding your voice even more now
  • Ornery. Definitely already have an ornery streak.
  • You seem to fight sleep more, but that varies as other things, and of course it comes to mind as we have already been in your room 6+ times to place you back from standing to laying down and you're showing us your fighting side tonight for sure. 3 more oz of formula solved that problem-guess you were just hungry...our bad-you live and you learn, right?! (and in our defense you refused to eat more of the first bed time bottle so thought you had enough...gah.)
  • No teeth. Just realized I haven't mentioned teeth, but you always seem to be 'teething' and having signs of that, but you are still toothless. In due time...
  • You still are a great sleeper. It varies sometimes but usually no more than once a night, if even, wake up, eat, right back to sleep.


This was our most trying 'photo shoot'-so curious and such a little busy body:)

You are amazing. Being a parent is so rewarding, challenging (every baby varies so a manual wouldn't even help-and you know what they say about opinions...) and so fun. To see you exploring so much has been an awesome experience and we are excited to see you continue to grow and figure out many new things.

It's so crazy to see how much you have changed and grown. It's so fun and sad all at the same time. My little baby isn't a little baby anymore! You are a joy little man-we're so thankful we get to be your parents and anticipate all the adventures we have yet to experience with you. Love you booger.

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