8 months

Oh baby! This kiddo turned 8 months old today! He is so much fun, and I have to say, I think this is my favorite stage yet. He is old enough to sit up and entertain himself, and interact with us. Yet he is still young enough to stay in one room and stay put for the most part. We of course just eat him up everyday! Here are some of his milestones:

• He still of course is obsessed with bath time!
• Weighs about 23 lb.
• He is loving his big kid food. He's moved up to stage 3 Gerber foods, so things with small chunks of little carrots and stuff. He doesn't love chicken noodle, and he is getting more and more of a sweet tooth. He likes the yogurt blends, and especially loves the Gerber graduate yogurt melts and fruit and veggie melts.
• He wants to crawl so badly!
• He is great at doing push ups, especially in the tub when his body weight isn't as heavy.
• He doesn't like his bottles anymore besides kind of in the morning. But bedtime bottles are the WORST to try feeding to him, he fights you the whole time. very frustrating.
• He got one tooth! The bottom left one, it's adorable and you can only see the very top of it, but we're very proud of him...one down, so many to go!
• He knows how to put the ball into his giraffe toy. It's a plastic giraffe with a big hole on his head and arms for the ball to go into, and we've worked hard on teaching him how to do it, at first he had no idea what it was, and now he knows exactly what to do with the ball...a future basketball player?? (side note: he likes to put the ball in with his left hand only. If he picks it up with his right, he will switch hands before putting it in.)
• We started trying to teach him baby sign language this month. Just "more" and "eat" and he looks at us like we are crazy every time we do it. We kind of feel like it's like training a puppy....the blank "you're crazy" stare.
• He sleeps in the most crazy positions, and like his mom, loves his belly and side! His little feet get caught in the crib sometimes, and it looks so funny!
• He sucks on everything he get his mouth on, then just gnaws at it!
• He is SO SO proud of himself when he rides in the grocery cart or sits in the high chairs in restaurants.