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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

8 Months Old!

Officially 8 months old. Wow, it's just craziness. He's getting to be such a big boy. He's into everything which always makes for a fun day! He is turning into a toddler it seems, and not so much a baby.

I love going into his room first thing in the morning and seeing him standing in his crib, smiling away at me. He loves to stand up so much, that it's been a problem putting him to bed because he will stand there now and hold out his hand and cry for you to come back. He will eventually fall asleep, but it takes about 10 minutes. It's kinda funny. He's learning though, that once he's in his crib, we're not coming back in to get him until he sleeps. Although at night when he's asleep, I do go in there and pick him up to hold him. He's just too cuddly and sweet not too.

He's pulling up all the time. He has learned how to fall down too. He will fall into a sitting position and then pull himself right back up to stand again. He's crazy. Other than pulling up, he is still army crawling. I'm not sure he's ever going to normal crawl but that's ok with me. The slower... the better ;)

He's still teething pretty good. He's into chewing on his thumbs now, so I think back teeth are starting to come down. He now has his top 4 teeth and his bottom 2 teeth. You can see the picture below of all his "goofer" teeth. His top teeth are so big, LOL. He's been grinding his teeth which was funny because Steve said "Hey, what are you doing" to Lee, then Steve said "Hey, Aghhh, stop grinding your teeth!!!". Ha, ha. It really bothered Steve.

Feeding Lee has been fun! He gags or throws-up any type of "normal" food we put in his mouth. Lee only likes his bottles, water, yogurt or his baby food. We even tried the stage 3 green beans and rice. There are little bits of rice mixed in green beans and he gagged on that. So any suggestions on how to get him to eat whole foods better, will be greatly appreciated!!

Other than that he's not talking at all. He coos and gaga's but he doesn't say anything resembling a word. Although, if you say his name he turns towards you. If you say "are you hungry?" he starts breathing really hard and moving his feet very fast. If you tell him "no, no" he will look at you and give you this smile (and will also crinkle up his nose), little stinker knows better.

3 comments:

Pixiemom said...

Just give him some time with the other foods. AnnaBeth took a while before she was ready for food with texture.

Happy Valentine's Day, Lee! You are such a cutey!

Crystal Starr said...

HAHA that first picture is so funny!

Lillian D said...

Steve had only Soy milk until he was a year old. I think he turned out to be a pretty good eater! Although it was hard getting him to eat anything besides Spagettios! Good luck.
LOL