Kyle, you are 8 months old! Here's some fun facts about you at this age:
- You learned how to sit up from laying down, but for some reason you only think you're capable of this while in your crib at nap time. You haven't yet figured out that you can do this outside of your crib - hilarious.
- You're teething again! I see a little white poking through for a 3rd bottom tooth. Lots of drool happening, but no pain yet as far as we know.
- You love the swing at the park! I take you almost every day.
- You still don't sleep through the night, but we're (semi) OK with that. You go to bed like an angel at 8 pm and don't usually wake up until 4. I'll nurse you, and then right back to sleep until around 7. You've skipped your night feeding a handful of times, so I have a feeling you might actually outgrow it yourself.
- You still nap like a champ - once at 10 am and then again at 2:30-3 pm.
- Now that we've given you a couple of fruits (apple and banana), you are GRUBBING. You're up to 3 meals of food a day. Yesterday we did: oatmeal with banana for breakfast, peas with apple for lunch, and avocado and yams for dinner. Grubbed it all up. Your favorites are apple, avocado, banana, carrots and yams. Next up is pears, spinach, and broccoli...
- You like drinking water out of your sippy cup and are really good at doing it yourself.
- You still want to stand at all times. You're not showing too much interest in the classic crawl - you're all about pulling yourself up (usually by grabbing mom or dad's hands) and standing as long as you can. You think you're such a big boy when you do that!
- You're into peek-a-boo with a blanket. We'll put it on your head and you love to pull it off and laugh.
- Your hair is still red and it's getting thicker! When we brush it after your bath you have an actual part - so cute.
- You make lots of funny sounds, especially a low grunt and you think you're so hilarious. You'll stop nursing for a second to grunt at me and then smile and go back to business.
I think you're going to do lots of fun stuff in your 8th month and we can't wait! Love our big handsome boy, Kyle Martin!
