You are now 8 months old! We had a very busy month and you handled it pretty well. We went to visit Nana and Grandpa in Wisconsin for Easter and then we went to MA to househunt for our new home and you were such a trooper. As usual, you made friends everywhere we went. People have literally stopped us in the street to tell us what a beautiful baby you are. It starts to get kind of funny after awhile, because people tend to gush and gush about you, but we just happily agree and thank them.
Biggest developmental thing this month is that you are CRAWLING. You started out a bit slow at it but you are now a champ. You can get from one end of the room to the other in just a few seconds and you love to look back behind you to make sure me and Daddy are watching. We have taken to making you a play area in the living room by blocking you in with the couch cushions to keep you safe.
You are also now sitting up by yourself which makes you seem like such a big boy! When you wake up in the morning, you usually sit up in your crib and babble to yourself for a few minutes until we are ready to get up. You are also learning that crawling and sitting up like a big boy leads to falling over and getting big boy boo boo's like bumps on your head. You hit your head on the bottom of the jumperoo this weekend and you were soooooo upset. Just a few cuddles from Mommy had you calmed down though :)
You are still eating everything we give you. You are now on to the 2nd foods so are enjoying combinations of things like apple blueberry and apple cherry. We have also been starting to give you some finger food like banana puffs, small pieces of banana, and puffs. Took you a little while to figure out how to stick food in your mouth (which is funny because you stick everything else in there just fine!) but now you are getting pretty good at it. Sometimes its nice to be able to give you a few puffs to
You are totally in love with our dog Daisy and she is totally in love with you. She is very good with you and sits at a distance for the most part, until she just can't take it anymore. Then she inches her way over closer and closer at which point you get curious and stick your hands in her face. She happily licks your hands, your feet, your face (gross) until Mommy and Daddy make her stop. You are also getting good at petting our cat Mason and being gentile with him.
You went swimming for the first time at our hotel in MA a few weeks ago. YOU LOVED IT. You had a huge smile on your face and you and Daddy had so much fun playing in the water. We intend to get you into swimming lessons soon after we get settled in MA and we are sure you are going to love that as well.
You still only have the two bottom teeth, but are definitely drooling up a storm so we are thinking there are more coming soon. Your sleep got really messed up while we were in MA because we got you out of your routine but we also think that teething may be playing a part in you waking up a few times a night. At first we were getting up and giving you bottles to calm you down but we have been trying to let you sooth yourself back to sleep which usually works.
This will sound like a broken record, but we love you so much Nicholas. Literally the best part of our days are getting to watch you learn, smile, grow, and just be you. You are the best thing that has ever happened to us, baby. We love you!
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