eight

You are now eight months old. So very active and curious.

 

Just four days before you turned eight months you had to undergo surgery at Children's Mercy in Kansas City for hypospadias. It was an early, early morning and long day. We got to the hospital just after 6:00 am and left to head home about 1:00 pm. The surgery itself took about three hours, and you did great. You did okay the first few days, alternating through stronger pain medicine and then halfway through seemed to become very irritable and we had a few days/nights of little sleep and lots of tears. We took you in to the doctor and got a false reading for UTI, which would have been horrible if you had one-but with how uncomfortable you were acting it at least would have been a good explanation outside of any surgery complication reasoning. So, during the couple of days we thought the UTI was happening we put you back on stronger pain medicine for sleep which helped. You still seem irritable compared to normal, but once you caught up on sleep and got some good, solid rest it made a huge difference and now we're just assuming it could be some healing discomfort or maybe working on teeth.

SO. With that being said, what's the eight month old Reid up to?

-As hinted at above, you seem like you could be working on teeth, but have yet to see anything. Only have the hints of attitude and gnawing on majority of things that you can get your hands on.
-You have recently weighed in at 17 lb 4 oz, and I'm not sure how long you are but you are already in 9 month clothing, some 6 months when it comes to shorts/bottom wear, and all 12 month pajamas because of how long you are. In general it's crazy and fun to see you wearing what your brother wore on you, but more crazy when you, at 8 months, are wearing what he wore around 16 months.
-You had been sleeping well before the surgery, going to bed earlier around 6:30/7, usually could guarantee you waking around 4-6 for a bottle and depending on how early maybe going back to sleep for a bit. Since surgery it's just been up in the air, but getting better and starting to be similar to what you were like beforehand.
-You shriek. I almost can't even imagine a 'normal' baby cry in my mind anymore-like what kind of non-shrieking baby cry in the middle of the night/early morning may sound like because I am so used to your shriek cry. Usually especially waking up from naps you share the glorious sound, and more recently any waking up throughout the night time comes with it as well. You would think someone was chopping your little leg off, it sounds like you're being tortured. Even taking you to the changing table last night before giving you your bedtime bottle, which I know you were overdue and wanted badly, but you shrieked, cried, and threw such a fit all over diaper change and change to pjs. It's funny, and makes us just smile and shake our heads...unless it's in the middle of the night and there's just no talking any sense into you...then it's just kind of rotten to hear. Just being honest pal, everyone has negative qualities and luckily, this is one you'll outgrow, at least you better or you may be flying solo forever if not :)
-That being said you're also rather quiet. Not a super chatty baby at least, unless you have an issue that we need to know about you keep most your opinions to yourself.
-No crawling for you either. Your dad and Yaya swore you'd be crawling and with teeth by 7 months, then when 7 months came it changed to before 7 months was over, but no to both of those things. You sure do manage to get around the room though fairly well by rolling around. You just haven't caught on to crawling, yet are finally showing some more frustration when we set you down so I wonder if that will fuel you to move.
-Sometimes when you are being held you arch your back a bit and hold your arms back and out. It's funny and as if to make sure and let us know you want to be held, but no cuddles. Hold me, but not too close and don't try to get all cozy with me now.
-You love to stand and 'walk' with help though, so I also wonder if you'll just be one of those kids that almost skips crawling to walking once you get old enough. We shall see, only time will tell.
-You love your binkie still and it is the cutest thing to see you grab for it. You use it as normal, but also shove it in your mouth sideways and just chew away.
-You have tried majority of all the main fruits and veggies to try, but honestly it's been basically since before surgery that I've given you any. I tried the week after and you just didn't care for it, and we've been more focused on just getting your appetite back for the bottles anyways that I haven't messed with pulling the frozen ones out to try. You liked it and were on a good roll, but lets be honest, you don't even have any teeth and it's kind of a nuisance to feed a little one baby food, so until you get your groove back I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
-You love watching Baby Einstein shows and have for the last few months. The animals or puppets ones are your favorite, and although you are restricted from the jumper right now you usually will be entertained just jumping with those shows on while you watch your brother play or run around.

You are a fun and handsome little fella. You're already showing fun qualities that are such a great addition to our family. I can't wait to see what you're like as you grow older and are able to interact with Caden more. I'm glad the surgery is behind us, that you are on the mend, and that we are able to feel like you are finally healing and feeling better.

We love you so much, boogie. xoxoxo