Between the White Lines: Eight Great Months

Our little boy is now EIGHT months old!! We are so blessed to have such a wonderful baby. I measured him this morning and he was about 28 1/2" and weighed 18.5 lbs. He's wearing his 9 month clothes and some are still too big. This month he has come to enjoy his naps (thank goodness)! Instead of the two 30 minute naps he was taking, he now takes two 75 minute naps. Now that I have a taste of longer naps, I'm not sure how I was handling those two short naps. He has also come to love snuggling. There have been days where I rock him for hours at a time. He also will snuggle with the women in the church nursery and at yoga, it is so sweet!

He's also gotten a lot more curious with his crawling. It used to be that he would stay in the same room, but now if you put him down, he is gone in 5 seconds. He can climb the stairs (scary!) and he loves to chase Chipper around the house (so precious!).

His sleeping schedule has changed a little since the time changed. Instead of sleeping from 8:30pm - 9am, he is now sleeping from 7:30pm - 8am. There are days where he wakes up around 7:30, but he usually goes back to sleep by 8 and sleeps until about 9:30! His eating schedule has been a lot of trial and error this month. He's now on formula, so we tried a bunch of different feeding schedules. What works best for him is four 6 ounce bottles (8:30, 12:30, 4:30, and 7:30) and he eats solids after his first three bottles. I was trying to do 8 ounces, but he wouldn't want to eat as many bottle during the day. So, we've stuck to this routine and it's worked out.

He now has a tooth!! The bottom tooth poked through on October 29th! The second tooth is ready to break through any minute now. He's done pretty well with teething. He was only fussy for two "mornings" at 5am, but after tylenol and some snuggling, he went back to sleep until 8. He had one night of a slight fever and that was the night before his gum split open. I could tell something was up because he was super clingy one day. He wouldn't let me put him down or leave the room for a minute without him crying. I am glad that teething explained that because it really tested my patience.

This month he has learned how to wave and say "hey!" It melts my heart every time. He does three different "waves": whole arm wave (in the video below), a wrist twist wave (like a beauty queen), and then an open and closed hand wave. When you hold his hand, he can take a few steps before losing his balance. When he's trying to pull up on an object that's too far away, he will put his hands on it and walk on his knees to get closer. He also shifts from object to object, so sometimes he will be balancing on the couch then he will turn around and reach for his walker toy to play with it. My favorite thing he does is when he's ready to get down from whatever he's standing on, he plops down on his butt. It is so cute! Here are some pictures and a video of him waving.