8 Months~

I'm not really sure where the last 8 months has gone, but wow!  I can't believe my little chunker has seen 8 months go by!  He is such a joy, a funny, lovey, cuddly baby, and definitely a bit of a momma's boy (though all bets are off when Dad walks in the door from work!).  He is scooting all over the house now - just found the dog's bowls yesterday!  He can get on his hands and knees but still can't master true crawling.  In the last week he's started to go from belly to sitting up, and can pull up on things if they're the right height.  He's close to cruising but still takes a lot of falls in the process, and love him though I do, I gotta admit he's a bit of a crybaby over them (sometimes they clearly don't hurt!)  What can I say, he wants his cuddles!  He says baba and mama, laughs more at his brother and sister than anything else.

He's still on purees and is definitely the pickiest of our kids.  If he doesn't want to eat it, no power of persuasion will convince him otherwise.  And it takes him 2 days to get over a meal he didn't like.  Silly baby.  But he likes most single ingredient fruits and veggies, it's the thicker foods he's not a fan of.  He has mastered the pincher grasp this month and can eat puffs, but anything else he gags on.  Oh and he ate a piece of paper off the floor last week.  That he manages to get down.

At night he is still getting up 2 times, but we're pushing that last wake up pretty close to morning these days - but as soon as we get 2 good nights in a row, he starts getting a tooth or a snotty nose or some other nonsense waking him up extra.  Last night he was up at 12:30 and 6 to eat, so a vast improvement!  Hopefully another month or so and wake up calls will start to disappear.  This mama is tired of them!  At least he really does nap well for me!