Liam Briggs, you are eight months old!
What have you been up to???
(Besides all the fancy footwork!?)
You weigh somewhere around 18 pounds. At the doctor on November 11th you weighed 17 lb 14 oz.
You wear size 3-6, 6-9 and 6-12 clothes. The length is great and even too short in some cases, but of course most outfits are loose in the tummy!
We are finishing up your last bit of size 2 diapers and will be moving on to 3's here in the next few days.
You nurse/have a bottle 4 times a day and eat three solid meals.
If it's possible, you have become an even better sleeper this past month! Well, sleeping at night is still the same, but your naps have been great! You sleep 8-8 or 8:30-8:30, either way 12 hours is your average. We've started keeping you up a little later because Daddy doesn't usually get home until close to 7 and just wasn't getting enough time with you each day. Naps are 11-1 and usually 3:30-4:30 or 4-5 almost every single day. Not only that, but I used to have to rock you for a bit and shush you before putting you down, but now for some reason you don't like that and prefer to just go straight in your crib and wiggle around until you fall asleep. It's been so nice!
You are such a talker! Your "real" words are "dada" and "yeah" although you don't associate them with anything. You babble all day long - I've heard at least g,w,b,r, and y sounds followed by -a or -oo sounds. Other than talking, you gurgle, yell, and laugh pretty much all day long.
This month we attended Baby Bounce classes at our local library once a week with our friends Tracey and Max, and it was so fun! The librarian reads the babies (and mommies) a story and then we all sing songs and say nursery rhymes. Next week is the last class until January, and I'm super sad about it.
Still no crawling, but your dad and I were late walkers (I don't know about crawling) so it's not that surprising. BUT this month has been a 180 in terms of tummy time, and you will actually voluntarily roll onto your tummy and stay there to play! That has NEVER happened! And you have figured out that if you roll enough times you can usually get to whatever toy or object you want. Many times I look over and you have rolled right off the rug and are wiggling around on the wood floor. You also do a sort of scoot type thing, but you go in a circle instead of forward or backward so it doesn't really accomplish much. It looks cute though! You are mostly just content to sit and play, but I'm sure as soon as you get curious enough you'll be on you way!
Things You Love:
Feeding yourself! Oh my goodness, I have to HIDE the puffs container until after meals because you will refuse to open your mouth for the spoon if you see finger food! Your fine motor skills are awesome and you can eat puff after puff perfectly. You have tried little bite size pieces of banana and potato, but I can't wait to really dive into finger foods this month!
Your walker! You will follow me from room to room in that thing, and you're getting pretty good on both carpet and the wood floors. If we are in the kitchen you go straight for the towels hanging on the stove and pull them off every time! We have also gone ahead and put safety covers on all the sockets because they are at the perfect height for your little fingers.
Standing! You can stand forever if you have something to hold onto. You like to "walk" too with us holding your hands. And I don't know WHAT you were thinking, but on Thanksgiving day you were sitting in your fuzzy chair in the living room and randomly stood straight up out of it! What??! Luckily Daddy was right there to catch you because you fell right over of course. You also did it the next day while sitting in my lap but grabbed on to the coffee table and stayed up! You're crazy.
Bath time as usual. I look like I just came from a pool party after bathing you because my clothes are always so soaked from your splashing.
Playing Peek A Book or "Where's Liam?" "Where's Mommy?" - you get the idea!
Your favorite toys this month are the remote (probably your number one favorite!), cell phones (tied for first), your B. blocks, and your soft stackable rings. AND you love to bang/throw everything.
Things You Don't Love:
Having a toy/object taken away. I used to be able to distract you with something else fairly quickly and you would forget about it, but now you will have a full on meltdown if I take something away from you and refuse the new toy!
The nasal aspirator. We've been using it the past few days for your runny nose and you HATE it.
Being passed around to a lot of people. You are a flirt and can handle it for a while, but when you're away from home ALL day long and being paraded around you get pretty sick of it. I don't blame you.
Firsts:
You got your first TOOTH! It finally popped through on November 20th, and it is SO cute! Maybe you'll get another one soon and have your two front teeth by Christmas :)
You tried puffs, plums, pineapple, and strawberries for the first time this month and like them all. Your Daddy also made you some homemade applesauce with cinnamon and you go crazy over it. It smells SO good!
You celebrated your first Thanksgiving and were the cutest little turkey. And you will have your first Christmas celebration this weekend!
You pooped in the bath tub! How we have gone 8 months and this is the first time it's happened I don't know, but it has happened twice this month...GROSS!
You also had your first fever which must have just been a 24 hour bug because it's gone now, woohoo!
(trying to sneak a taste)
Happy 8 Months Liam!
We love you oh so much!
