8 months!

You're a mover and a shaker and a big, sweet boy.

• You are constantly on the move and I'm trying to stay one step ahead to keep doors shut and gates locked. You will take a few crawling steps on hands and knees, but are much faster on your tummy and eventually drop down and army crawl where you want to go.
• You have mastered the art of getting into sitting position on your own. So now you can get wherever you want, and sit right up to play.
• You also love standing! You are constantly pulling up on everything, especially the couches and me, so you can stand. You do a bit of cruising/walking too, but mostly just stand there so proud. And then fall over, sometimes cry if it was a hard fall, then right back up to standing again. When I try to put you down to sit, you straighten out your legs and just want to stand.
• You are eating much better. The only new foods I can think of are pumpkin and finger foods like puffs and yogurt melts. You liked chicken too. You still prefer orange over green food, but will eat the green stuff.
• It's finally warmed up so you've gotten to be outside more and like exploring in the grass and pulling it out and trying to eat sticks. You like to swing too and love to giggle at whoever is lucky enough to push you.
• You sleep ok. Often you just wake up once a night, but sometimes twice. You are up by 6 am, which is just way too early! I try to push back your bedtime, but 7 is the latest I can start because you're so fussy by 6:30. Dad often gets up and spends mornings with you after you've nursed. You nap twice a day. And I still snuggle you to sleep in your rocking chair in your room. I love that part of my day.
• You're in size 4 diapers now and some 6-9 month clothes, and moving into more 12 month clothes, especially pajamas.
• You are happy and love attention. You laugh and scream and squeal at us. You laugh for your brothers the most it seems. You like to be tickled and played with and talked to. You love playing peek a boo and patt a cake. You like to hold my hands and clap them. You also poke at and scratch us all the time when you're trying to play. You like when McKynlee holds you on your hip and bounces you, and when Brady plays peek a boo by jumping out from behind your door, and when Miles talks to you in his cute baby voice to cheer you up-and you love grabbing his hair and kissing his face.
• We all love your slobbery open-faced slobbery kisses.
• Your favorites toys are the remotes and parent's phones, but actual toys, you like your phone toy and balls and anything with wheels you can spin. So, some baby toys, and some cars and things of your brothers that have spinning wheels. You also like to chase their remote control cars.
• You're starting to get some stranger danger and definitely prefer Mom when you're sad or tired. You do love Dad and dive out of my arms for him often. But you'll also cling to me and turn away from people who want to hold you.
• Your favorite form of communication is spitting at us. The fart-noise type spit. You spit at everyone all the time. It's a constant.
• Your cute grin with your bottom 2 teeth poking out is our favorite thing in the whole world. We just can't love on you enough and I know I always say it, but I wish I could freeze you as the little snuggly baby you are!