8 months

Baby boy is 8 months old!

As from my last post, he spent a few weeks sick. It was a miserable time!! I ended up taking him back to the Dr. a 3rd time because the fussiness/sleeplessness was too much to bear! I just knew something was still wrong with him, and sure enough, those darn ears were still red. I finally, somewhat feel as though we are "among the living." 

A few days after we started another round of antibiotics, he and I fell asleep in the chair @ 9:30 am, moved to the bed an hour later and slept until 1:00. I woke up felling so awful for having slept the day away, but I think we both desperately needed some sleep! We are still kinda working on the sleep thing, bad habits may have been formed out of desperation of sleep. ;)

He's a pro crawler! One day it finally clicked that he could use this moving thing to actually go somewhere. I love to watch him go into the kids' bedrooms and explore. He's discovered there's lots more fun in those rooms than anywhere else.

I love being followed around the house by him.

He's started to eat a lot more! He's just never been too interested in pureed food, but now that he can fingertip grasp food and feed himself, he will ONLY eat what he can feed himself! He is so not into being fed!

HOWEVER, if you have something sweet on the other side of the spoon, you cannot shovel it into his mouth fast enough. He gets pretty crazy about those sweets.

We went to Wendys the other day and let the kids gets a frosty.. and well, daddy snuck the little man a bite of frosty and it went downhill from there. We had to pack up and leave quickly because he started full on screaming! 

His hair- something to document... When he was born, he was  bald on top... all but a small amount, right up front. Its awful! So many times i've wanted to just trim it cuz its a hot mess! As his hair has

grown, so has that long-ness in the front... and it is so thin and whispy, it flies up and he often looks like this:

I am constantly doing the mom spit thing... but 5 seconds later, its just done its own thing again... and I'm thinking he'll have curls... cant wait to see what comes of this hair of his.

I love to see his different relationships forming with each of the bigs. He and Payton have the "mothering" relationship. Lets just say, she puts me to shame. ;)  I often have to explain to her that even tho I may sit back and watch things happen, Its what mamas have to do so that the little one will learn.

I drive her crazy.

But he quite possibly loves her more than he loves anyone else in this house.

Stetson has suddenly taken a liking to Weston, not that he's disliked him, but he's just not been interested in baby-ness, but now that Weston is a tad more fun, I see a pretty neat relationship forming there. I see lots of wrestling and sword fights in their future.

Madelynn is the fun sister.

The one that will quite possibly get into trouble with little bro. ;)

You  can normally find him standing up on whatever he can get his hands on! We've not had much foot movement yet, but I'm waiting for it any day now! He is SO ready to walk.

He definitely keeps his mama busy these days, but I'm enjoying my days with him.