Nine Months

9 Months

• You are everywhere. You love crawling under the desk, over to the piano to play with the pedals, and then onto the steps where you cry to join me in the kitchen. Once in the kitchen, I have to put the dog food up. Your clothes are trashed because you will sneak out to the back porch. Whatever. Good thing you are the last so I don't feel like I have to keep it perfect for the next child. 
• Fourth of July went really well with you. I never know what to do with babies so late at night. We just put you to bed around 7pm and woke you up at 9:30pm when we headed out to see the fire works. You treated it just like a nap, were so happy to see the lights, and then went right to bed when we got home. I didn't get any pictures of you in your outfit because you got it so dirty at Pine Bar that we just changed you wen we got home. 
• You diet has been really expanded lately. We went on an adventure to the Selway Falls and you tried dog poop, sand, and power bait, along with Chinese food that night (though you liked all of them the same). 
• We introduced you to playing balls and it makes you crack up. We just pass the ball back and forth. At one point, you were laughing so hard, you would fall backwards. I got a video of you and sent it to the grandmas. They love seeing you.
• You have been so grumpy this last week. At points during the day, I have had to leave the other kids at home and just push you in the stroller for 20 minutes to calm you down and give me some quiet. Dad was on call this weekend, so it has been hard on me to deal with your crying and clinglyness all by myself. I kept checking your temperature, but never a fever. Finally, a week into this new mood, I started giving you medicine (makes you so much happier). So is it teething? Well, a fever finally came (though honestly I think you had one for a while, out thermometer just wasn't working) and you woke up with crusts in your ear. Poor baby, you have had a horrible ear infection this who time. We finally got you on real medicine and drops, so there is hope again. What was hard is that you wanted only me, but you hate being rocked so I don't know how to comfort you. Really the only thing that comfort your is me holding you while walking around. I did this a lot because I love you so much and really was trying hard to make you feel better.

Eight Months

8 Months

• Oh my goodness, could you get any more cuter? Wherever I take you, people always comment how cute and happy you are. You really are a happy baby, but at the same time, you are not afraid to let me know that you are not content at the moment.
• Crawling, moving, shaking, that is what you do all day. You love to crawl around the furniture but then will get stuck in the legs of the side tables. I am having to sweep and mop more because your cloths are getting so brown from army crawling all over the floors. The living room has serves sort of a play pen for you because you can't climb the stairs yet, but now you discovered that you have to left in the room by yourself, so you crawl over to the stairs where you can seeing me cooking, and cry for me to pick you up. I don't love you in the kitchen because you found the dog food and the floor in the kitchen is so dirty at times, I feel like I have to change your outfit afterwards.
• Swim season has started and you really enjoy the water. It is still tricky knowing when to go-before or after nap-but you usually a good sport about it.
• We went to CDA over Father's Day to visit the lake and spend a day at Silverwood. You were obvious to small to have done anything, but you were happy the whole time, especially since you only napped a total of 40 minutes the whole day. 
• After reading the other kids blog at this age, I realized that we were behind on having you stand up. You just love the floor so much, you usually sit right down the moment we stand you up. The kids have been working hard on getting you to practice standing along the fireplace. You haven't taken any steps while standing, but you will stand for a whole minute or two before just sitting down. 
• Food is still your favorite and for the most part, you love it all. I have introduced a bit more dairy, which you seem to hardly well. The other thing that had bothered you are really cold food like fresh cold smoothies or watermelon straight from the frig. 
• You are a crack up. You will do the blowing bubbles/spitting sound. You know that it makes us laugh, so you will do it over and over to see us laugh. If I lay you down on the bed to get you dress, you start laughing while trying to crawl away. I love seeing these glimpse of your illy personality coming through. I have a feeling you are going to be a real goof ball.