8 Months

Lukie is 8 months old.  After not sleeping through a single night of his eighth month he is finally back to enjoying at least 9 hours of shut eye.  And the result of the nighttime hollering?  Two top toofers, check.

Now that he's about the age that babies usually start to adapt to table foods eating and feeding is going much smoother.  Thank the sweet lord.  We are moving into a more traditional feeding schedule with solids at regular meal time and nursing/bottle for snacks and before bed.  Luke loves him some PB&J which I can't send to school so when I told his teachers their eyes about popped out of their heads.  Guess they haven't gotten the memo yet that we're now doing the exact opposite of when G was an infant regarding food allergies.  Get with it, peeps!  Other than that he chows of all the usual faves: poufs, cheerios, cheese, yogurt, mandarin oranges, sweet potatoes, noodles, etc.  He'll be outeating Matt any day now.  

Other growth moments: he has cautiously pulled himself up in his crib a couple of times - and is quite proud of himself - and is starting to launch himself forward from a sitting position, but still pretty unimpressed with rolling.  Luke is a super soaker razzer, bubble blower and screecher.  When he really gets going it's so funny, and there's little doubt that he'll be able to make his voice heard in our crowd.  We've officially retired the baby tub, the boppy, the bumbo, the baby swing, and the play mat.  Didn't we JUST take that stuff out of the basement??

Here's the big man at 8 months:

 

peek a boo!

a hilarious moment in time as sis rubs his little back

happy baby

thighs a plenty

leaning tower o baby

see mom i'm not as lazy as you say

so, what's new with you?

can move backwards with frustrating ease

whoa whoa whoa, did you know there was a WHEEL in this carpet?

really a happy little dude

a peek at those top teeth