I can't believe my baby is already 8 months old! Time has went so fast and it has been an amazing 8 months. He stood all by himself today and looked at me like, "what am I doing?" and then promptly fell down:-)! He is Mr. Mobile these days, army crawling all over the place and he has gotten pretty fast! Going after electric cords is a favorite past time, as well as door stoppers! He is learning that mama's new favorite word is "no, no". Sometimes when I say it he pauses, looks at me and then goes faster....trouble already! He is doing pretty well with his solids, somedays are better than others. I make all of his food which gives me peace of mind knowing exactly what is going into him. We did just start doing stonyfield organic yobaby, yogurt a week ago and so far he likes it pretty well. He is having 2 meals a day right now, I try 3 every so often but he just isn't ready yet. Right now he has lunch around noon which is usually yogurt and a fruit and then for dinner he has a cube of veggies (his favorite is sweet potatoes), 2 tbsp of oatmeal and 1 cube of fruit for dessert. He really likes his finger foods too! He gets rice puffs, gerber puffs and we just added Cheerios (by surprise! we were at our friend Christa's house on Thursday 2-21-08 and he was in Tula's walker and when I looked over at him he was shoving a handful of cheerios in his mouth.....but he did okay with them so it was a good push for mom to get him the cheerios!), we also added Mum mums and little pieces of banana and avocado for other finger foods. He likes getting messy, a true boy! And his favorite meal is still his "mama's milk", he knows the sign for milk and whenever I do it he goes in for some num nums! He is a little blabber mouth and loves to "talk" all day! He wakes me up with his little morning conversation to himself and whoever will listen and it always starts my day with a smile. 6:30 is his wakeup time, on the dot-even on the weekends when daddy thinks he should get to sleep in. He also has a very standard bedtime that he has set for himself at 7:30 and he doesn't like it when we adjust it! He isn't sleeping through the night yet, but it doesn't really bother me, he wakes to nurse and then is asleep instantly so as long as he doesn't decide it is wakeup time at 2am we are good to go. He has so much personality already and is the true definition of a mama's boy! And of course I like it like that, daddy always tells me to enjoy it now because soon he'll be leaving me for fishing trips with daddy....we'll see about that! We keep busy during the week with Gymboree, story time and our playdates. He has a little group of girlfriends that he gravitates towards...it is crazy seeing their little friendships developing and that they already know "those are my friends". It can be a room full of babies and the 4 of them will find eachother and go off in a corner to "play". They have started fighting over toys and it is the cutest thing to watch, they pull it back and forth and sometimes get mad at each other for stealing whatever is the desired object.
Kayden-we love you so much! These have been the best 8 months of our lives so far and I know every day with you will get better and better. You have brought so much meaning to our lives and make everything we do mean so much more. Watching you discover the world is the most amazing thing I've seen so far, we are so lucky to get to be your parents! We love you baby boy with all our heart!!! Muahhhh! XOXOXOXO
