William at 8 Months

Here is our little man at the eight month mark. Sorry it took me so long to post, it's been a really busy week!
Sweet as ever, but now always "on the go". William crawls and has discovered the excitement of getting into everything! We are working really hard with the big kids to enforce safety with them. It's so much harder to baby-proof a home when there are two kids over three living in it too! And now he has his first crawling"war wound". He grabbed onto a basket to pull himself up and it smacked him right between the eyes. Poor little guy, he looked so stunned that it hurt! But it's only the first of many...

He loves to eat now, thankfully! And with the discovery of the pincher grip a couple of weeks ago, he is trying out table foods. Cheerios, Gerber puffs, biter biscuits, banana, and avocado seem to work pretty well right now. And he has been pretty successful with water in a sippy cup.

We are trying to tweak his nighttime routine a little. He still goes down between 5:30 and 6pm and wakes at 7am. Which is great, except that he is up once during the night. Strangely, always about thirty minutes after I have gone to bed. I think he must be psychic!

He is trying so hard to speak these days. So cute! He has learned to "click" his tongue, scream, blow rasberries, and says all of the typical baby things: "A Goo", "Da", "Dis", "YaYa", and my favorite "Mmmmmm" which is his way of calling for Mom.

We are all looking forward to the first Christmas with our little guy. Can't wait to see what Santa brings for him!