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.