Sunday, March 4, 2012

8 months (recorded at 8 1/2)

-Crawler extraordinaire
-starting to pull up to things, but very shakily, still at peril to himself
-Has started turning his head w/ a big grin on his face to find Daddy the moment he hears his voice!
-Loves EVERYONE & is so easily entertained (faces, one toy, a crumb off the floor)!
-When he gets tired he just stares & won't smile...otherwise he pretty much smiles constantly!
-His little freckle/birthmark has faded a ton (you can barely see it in the top picture right along his crooked-I-need-another-haircut-hairline)
-His finger pincers are way too adept at picking up whatever looks interesting off the floor
-2 bottom teeth are very present to use on his ever-increasing array of victuals (unfortunately we must use loads o' prune juice to keep his body going healthy & strong)
-Has almost NEVER cried while in the car...he absolutely loves it & until a couple of weeks ago would just go to sleep instantly. *I might add that this is a first for us, & polar opposite from little missy
-Maybe it's me but these last two kiddos are sure giving me a run for my sleep (Ari is good now, but wow, it's taken 2 years for me to come to the conclusion that she just has more need of us at night--though she does sleep through the majority of the time & still takes fantastic 2-3 1/2 hr naps)! He goes to sleep at 6:30 or 7:00pm (sometimes earlier!) & has broken the 2am habit, but can't quite kick the 3/4am thing. He will fuss (with us going in, standing by him, doing brief touches or pick-ups until he falls back asleep on his own) for up to 3 hours!! I almost always feed him at 6am & then he goes back to sleep until 8:30/9ish. He naps during the day around 10:30 & 2ish, but is such a happy guy it's been harder for me to make his morning nap an absolute priority (like I HAD to do with missy-moo)...maybe that's my problem with the night-thing though...
-He's had one mini haircut, & his hair has some wave in it!
-Stood up in his crib for the first time a week ago
-Will babble "ba ba ba ba" at Ari & she will do it back to get him to do it

1 comment:

jamie t. said...

What a sweetheart. I bet he'll and you'll be so glad someday that you recored all of these wonderful things!