Eight Months

Another month has come and gone and I'm back for another monthly post!  Kai had a busy 8 month birthday today - we had family/8 month pictures at the Gallagher-Bluedorn.  I weighed him this afternoon after his nap and the scale shows that he didn't gain any weight.  He was still 18lbs 3oz and about 27.5 inches long.  I'm thinking the no weight gain either has something to do with when I weighed him last to when I weighed him this time (maybe after he ate the first time..?) or it could be the fact that he's had a cold for almost 3 weeks straight.  He's still been eating pretty well, but his body has been in overdrive trying to fight off this cold!

At eight months Kai is:
-wearing size 3 diapers
-wearing 6-9 or 9 month clothes
-wearing size 2 or 3 shoes (I've just recently been putting shoes on more often.  Twos will be too small pretty soon so any new pairs are 3s)
-eating 6oz every 4 hours
-eating oatmeal with fruit at 8:30am; a fruit or vegetable at 12:00pm; fruit or vegetable at 6:30pm  (he's eating about 1/4c fruit & veggie per day)
-going to bed between 7:00-8:00pm (earlier side if no late afternoon nap) and still waking between 6:00-7:00am.  On the weekends, he's starting to do better with sleeping until closer to 8:00 - mostly because I'm more likely to try to get him back to sleep.
-starting to pull himself on his tummy but he gets really frustrated quickly
-rocking when put on hands and knees but not going anywhere
-showing all signs that he wants to crawl, just can't quite figure it out yet
-still practicing with the sippy cup & water, but prefers us to hold it up to drink from
-still not sleeping through the night
-clapping/playing pat-a-cake 

Naked baby at 8 months!

A little dark but the best that I got of him on his back. It's like wrestling an alligator now!

Other things about Kai at eight months:
-he's been giving the best hugs lately!
-he's pulled himself up to standing about twice now but he's really unsteady on his feet still
-loves pulling all of the puzzle pieces off his puzzles and banging them together
-loves anything that makes noise, especially toy drums
-he's starting to become really interested in his books.  I've been reading to him since we brought him home, but now he'll try to hold the book and loves one book with a finger puppet
-favorite foods: avocado, peaches, peas, green beans, squash (still likes oatmeal, apple, pears)

 

 Banging the puzzle pieces together!                           Looks good but still pretty unsteady!