Eight months old!

I just realized this morning that I let his eight-month birthday come and go without a little update for posterity.

He is definitely crawling everywhere now -- but only army style, not on his hands and knees.  He is really good at getting from laying down to sitting up by himself, and I've even caught him a few times pulling up to his knees while holding on to something.  We had to lower his crib about a week ago because we found him holding on to the side of the crib and pulling up.  He may army crawl forever -- we'll see!

He is eating baby food about twice a day now (if I remember to feed it to him).  So far he's had squash, carrots, sweet potatoes, apples, pears, rice cereal, peaches, and yogurt.  Sometimes I try to feed him more solid table food but I think for now he just enjoys mashing it between his fingers.

He's been waking up more at night (I say "more" -- usually it's just two times a night instead of his regular one time a night).  I think it may have something to do with his teeth, and the fact that he's been fighting a little summer cold complete with runny nose/congestion.

At this age Lucy was still waking up multiple times a night and needed to be rocked back to sleep and gingerly placed into her crib while you made a swift exit before she woke up.  Ian, on the other hand, I just put him to bed all the time awake and he falls asleep on his own.  He wakes up once a night usually, sometime between 1:30 and 5:00am, and then sleeps until about 7:30am.  I really don't mind.  I know he will eventually sleep through the night.  Knowing this is the last time I'll have to do this "getting up in the middle of the night" thing makes it much easier to handle.  I'm in no rush.

Happy eight months, baby boy!  We love you.  Can't wait to see how much you weigh and what you're doing at nine months old.

First word!

Not sure if I'm officially saying this is his first word, since he does babble a lot, but it definitely sounds distinctly like Ian started saying "Mama" in the past couple of days.  Wesley even said one time that I walked out of the room and Ian clearly said, "Mama".  haha.  Lucy said "Dada" first, so I am a little happy that my mama's boy Ian said "Mama" first.  :)

First teeth!

I was waiting to post this in hopes that I might get a picture of those suckers, but Ian will barely open his mouth to let me look at them so I doubt a picture is going to happen.

But I noticed Tuesday (July 3, 2012) that he had two tiny white teeth at the bottom -- his front two bottom teeth.  They are adorable, and sharp!  :)