8 Months Old

Drake, you turned 8 months old yesterday. I know I say this every month, but I can't believe you are already 8 months old! You have brought so much happiness into our lives and have so much personality. It really is so much fun just to watch you learn how do to something new or see something for the first time.

- You are about 29 inches long and I still have not weighed you since your 6 month appointment (sorry!)
- You are now wearing 12 month clothes
- You can crawl and within two weeks of starting to crawl, you started to pull up to a stand on anything and everything you can. In the last couple of days, you have started to learn how to bend your knees so you can go from standing to sitting.

- You still think look and Alice are funny and you now have found their water and food bowls...time for us to move those
- We had to lower your crib as low as it can go because we now find you standing up whenever you are awake in the crib
- Speaking of the crib, your sleep patterns have started to shift a little, can you please go back to going to sleep at 8:00 and waking up at 6:30? You have had trouble lately getting to sleep and then many days you are waking up at 1:30 (typically you fall back asleep pretty quickly after you have your diaper changed).
- You are a great eater! You eat everything that I put in front of you. The new foods you have had lately are mango, pork with apples, and yogurt melt. You are doing great feeding yourself the puffs and the yogurt melts so I think it is time to start a little more self feeding. I have not been very dedicated to giving you a sippy cup, we will work on that more in the coming month.

Eating strawberry yogurt melts

 - Your Nana and Papa came last week to watch you during the day because Margie was on vacation. You had a great time playing with them.
- You are BUSY. If you are awake, you are constantly moving and trying to find new things to do. You do not like lying down and prefer to be outside.

- You had a play date with your buddy Will, who lives in PA at Kate's house. You are the oldest of the three but Will is about your size. Because he is not mobile yet, you took advantage and tried some wrestling moves on him and then started to suck his head. Kate was having none of that though, she would just kick you away.


Trying to get Kate's bow; Will's not sure what is going on



I'm not sure what all we have planned for this coming month. Basketball season is about to start, so we are going to be spending a lot of time in Littlejohn. We will see what else this month brings us...