You are now 8 months old!!!! How the time has flown!
You are such a big boy now. You’re sitting up by yourself
with no problem. You can reach pretty far to get a toy and then sit yourself
back upright. Sometimes you lean over far enough to flip yourself onto your
tummy. Then you can get up on your hands and knees and rock a bit. It won’t be
long ‘til your crawling! For now, you get on your tummy, raise up on your
hands, and push yourself backward. You managed to scoot yourself from your play
area in the living room all they way around the couch to the DVD shelves.
Backward.
You’ve figured out that raising your hands up above your
head indicates that you want to be picked up. So you do that frequently. But
you’re getting better at playing by yourself. You are interested in all the
toys that are available to you. You pick them up and bang them around and put
them in your mouth. Everything goes in your mouth.
Part of the reason you chew on everything is that you’re
getting teeth! You have two teeth on the bottom now. It’s so cute when you
smile and show them to me. Though most of them time when I try to get a look,
you stick your tongue out to cover them up.
You’re now able to pick up puff snacks and put them in your
mouth. Sometimes they land on the floor, but you get most of them in your mouth
by yourself. We’ve also started working on using a sippy cup. You seem to
understand which part goes in your mouth, but you still haven’t figured out the
importance of gravity in getting the liquid into your mouth.
We are unfortunately treating another ear infection. This is
the fourth round of antibiotics you’ve been on for your ears. Your doctor is
counting this as the second or third infection since they’ve been so close
together lately that it’s considered an unresolved occurrence instead of a new
occurrence. I would not be surprised if we’re eventually talking about PE
tubes. But we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.
I don’t know if it’s related to your being sick, but you’ve
slept 11 hours straight for the past few nights. I would love, love, love if
that was your new normal. It makes for a much happier mama when she gets a good
chunk of sleep. Not to mention the fact that you are still not consistent about
your daytime naps. You sometimes take a morning nap, but not very often. And
you take an afternoon nap about half the time. I don’t know how a child your
age is getting by without a consistent afternoon nap. And you are a serious Mr.
Cranky when you don’t nap. I wish you would figure out that naps are a very
good thing.
At least your night-time sleep is solid. When we put you in
your bed, you immediately flip over onto your tummy and settle in. Sometimes
you fuss for a minute or so. Sometimes you babble to yourself for a bit. But
you are asleep quickly. I always go in and check on you before I go to bed. I
stand over your crib and watch you sleeping. I place my hand on your back to
feel your breathing. And I marvel at the miracle I’m so blessed to have.
I love you so much,
mama
