Eight Months

Eight months! Can you believe it! You've learned a lot this month.  You started scooting the second week of December and then gave us a great Christmas present when you started crawling on Christmas Eve.   We were so excited!  It is so neat to see what you are interested in.  You've also continued to be quite the flirt and are definitely a social baby.  You get cranky if we stay home all day.  When we go to the store you smile at the cashier and then hide in mommy.

Weight:  20lbs!

 Likes: You love the kitty, chasing her, and pulling her tail.  You love to play with the dog food and water dish (not that I let you).  You're a huge fan of applesauce, sweet potato and cheese, although there really hasn't been one food you don't like.

Dislikes: Sleep.  Seriously kid, time to sleep through the night or at least for 6 or 8 hours straight every night.  You don't like getting your diaper changed most of the time.  Baths have become hit or miss these days too, which makes me sad because you used to love them (and you still do sometimes).  You got a bubble maker for Christmas from you aunt Kris and each time I turn it on you start crying.

New foods:  Egg, cheese, broccoli, oatmeal, and more I'm forgetting.
Sleep: Three 30 minute naps a days and then 7pm-7:30am at night (although you get up 3+ times)

Mad Skills: scooting, crawling, pulling up on the couch

Love you more each day goo bear!

Seven Months

Seven months snuck up on me somehow. I'm not really sure where the month of November went in general. Somewhere in there you tried a bunch of new foods, visited you nana and papa, hung out with your aunts and uncle, "played" with your cousins, celebrated you're first Thanksgiving (with squash! which you loved),  and never napped (seriously kid, time to sleep for more than 15minutes).  You're also working on getting your four top teeth.  

Six Months

 Weight: 18lbs 2oz
Height: 27 1/2 inches

Likes: Mommy tickling your tummy, Hans or any dog really, singing songs, bath time, your exersaucer, grabbing the cat's tail, sucking on your thumb (so adorable)

 

Dislikes: taking naps during the day, getting your diaper changed when your tired,  long car rides

Foods: sweet potato

Mad Skills: sitting by yourself (mostly), rolling over a ton, moving toys from one hand to the other, screaming (seriously kid, you can be LOUD), saying different consonants, popping two teeth

Sleep: you've been a pretty bad sleeper when you were getting your teeth, but the last week has been better.

Half A Year

I'm joining Emily today and embracing the camera with my little man.  I blinked and then somehow he turned six months old.  It's hard for me to believe he's already been in our lives for half a year.  Kinda hard to remember life without him...what did we do?  Glad to have this goo-bear in my life.

Little man got his first taste of food on Monday.  He at some pureed sweet potato.  I pretty sure he was just as excited about the spoon as he was about the food.  I think he liked it though. 

 Since it was Halloween yesterday,  Isaac dressed up in his tiger jammies and looking pretty cute as usual.

5 Months

I can't believe that in just one short month you'll be half a year old.  I'm holding off on feeding you big people food till next month, though I know you'd be happy to start today.  I seriously can't believe that we are out of the new baby stage and you're turning into your own unique person.  You're discovering the world around you and you're itching to explore it.  I know you'll be crawling before I know it.

Weight: 17lbs

Length: 27 inches

Clothing: 6-9 months.

 Likes: You love your dad and his silly antics to make you laugh.  You also love watching him play video games (much to my dismay).  You like watching Hans and you really want to play with his toy.  You like trying to pet him and the cat but they've learned to keep their distance. 

 Dislikes: You've gotten really good at rolling over from your back to your stomach in the last week, but you hate being on your stomach.  You will roll over, cry until I roll you back over on your back, and then repeat the whole process over and over.  Time to practice rolling the other way!  You starting to realize that there is a whole world around you and you want to go, go, go and explore but you don't know how.  I think you get upset a lot because you can't do what you want. 

Special talents:  Drooling like no one's business, rolling over from back to front, sleeping without the swaddle, waking up right when mom's about to fall asleep at night, grabbing and eating your feet (love this), sitting up with a little help, learning to drink from a sippy cup.

Sleep: You've been getting up 2-3 times a night to eat.  Sometimes more.  A few nights last week you only got up once...can't wait for this to be a nightly occurrence!

Loving this tv add...

While I don't use disposable diapers, I love this add.  I definitely feel like the first mom in the commercial but am becoming more like the second.  I hate the feeling that I need to be covered up while nursing in public.  We're not doing anything scandalous and let's be honest, some women show more when they're NOT nursing (not that I think they should, just saying).  I really hate nursing covers and rarely use one anymore.  Maybe someday I'll be brave and like that second mom...hey, a baby gotta eat right? 

Nostalgia

I was out running errands with Isaac today and stopped at N&J, a middle eastern restaurant, to get some lunch.  I stopped in and ordered my favorite - chicken shwarma.  As I sat waiting for my food, I was brought back to the last time I ate there.  I was a few days past my due date and was uncomfortable and just ready to be done being pregnant.  I'd had some braxton hicks contractions on and off all day.  Nothing in our house sounded good so I went to grab some N&J for supper.  As I sat waiting for my food, I was texting my sister trying to figure out if the contractions I was having were "real" and would lead to anything.  I may have also whined about still being pregnant.  Little did I know that I'd meet my son less than twelve hours later.

 Funny how something as simple as grabbing lunch can put one back into a situation just like it was yesterday.  I kind of miss the anticipation I felt waiting to meet my son and wish I could relieve the excitement of that night (not the contractions though...definitely can wait a few years for those again).  Hard to believe that was four months ago and now I have a four month old!

Came hone to find this little guy not in the kitchen on the wrong side of the gate.

This came in the mail today finally!  So excited to use it.  My shoulders and back will be grateful :)