We attempted a picture session and here's the result:
(disclaimer: safety was not compromised for your viewing entertainment - no injuries occurred!)
The one keeper!
Yeah, didn't go so well since he had no interest in sitting in one place for more than 2 seconds, so I decided instead to take pictures of all the things he's doing now and what it's like to chase after him.
He loves to play in Hannah's room. We have to be really careful to watch for any small toys, but he really likes to pull things off her shelves and dive into her bean bag.
His crawling speed is about 20 mph...ok, maybe not that fast, but if you take your eyes off of him for a minute, he's gone! He pulls himself up on anything he can - furniture, my leg, the wall - and then tries to walk along, but he's still having trouble remembering to move his feet to walk!!!! (so he usually falls down).
He puts everything in his mouth! This would be great if we were just talking toys, but he usually prefers shoes and now his most recent find - toilet paper!
He has recently figured out how to climb the stairs too. Here he is on step one
and then step two
And then I needed two hands to catch him as he went for stair three and turned around to check to see if I was watching him! He did go up an entire flight of stairs last week as Tony chased him up! He thought that was real fun, and was panting as he got to the top! So for now, we have to keep gates at the top and bottom of our stairs as they are now off limits to avoid injury!
He has learned what no means (and doesn't like it very much!) Here he was testing me by the dog dish. Every time he leaned toward it, I'd yell no and he'd stop. Eventually he moved on to something else as no got old!
By the way, he throws a complete fit when he gets mad - taking him away from something he wants or just when he isn't getting the proper amount of attention. And oh, how this child can throw a fit!!! He screams and pulls his pantlegs and gets red in the face. Quite a lovely scene that I hope doesn't play out too often in public!
So along with "no", he definitely understands some other words like jump, dance, yay and uh-oh. He is now saying ma ma and I'm certain it has meaning now. He said it a couple months ago, but I think it was just making noise. Now he calls for me. He will say da da too once in a while.
He is getting his eight tooth. Now has all four top and a fourth now on the bottom. And his teeth hurt!!! He quickly realized that this weekend when he accidently bit himself!
He's eating 3 meals of solids - fruits, vegetables and rice cereal and likes puffs. I've tried giving him a few things from the table this week, bread, bananas, pancakes and a french fry.....of course his favorite was the french fry! I did a quick weigh of him on our scale...he's around 23 pounds! Solid as a rock!
He now takes his bath in the tub and he loves to take a bath with Hannah! They have fun playing with toys and splashing around together.
He's still a terrible sleeper. I think in 8 months, we've had 4 nights of sleeping all night uninterrupted. Most nights, we still get up 3-4 times to give him a binky and he still makes his way back to our bed at least once a week when we're at our witts end! Magically, he sleeps like a champ there!
He loves his sister and I think Hannah now really enjoys having a playmate. He's a ball of energy and a lot of fun, and sure is a different kid than his sister. We're so very blessed to have these two wonderful, healthy kids! Wonder what this next month will bring???? Can't wait to find out!
