Here we are at the beginning of the last week of you being 8 months! Time is FLYING by and we are enjoying every minute of it.
You are such a social, happy little person. You giggle with your whole body and laugh at the most random things. Last week you learned how to fake cough and every time I faked your cough, you cracked up! Your smile lights up a room and you smile at just about everybody who looks at you. You even had your picture taken with Mr. Randy for the YMCA Annual report. Ace, you are all business when it comes to being cute!
You are eating finger foods now and are a pro at getting food into your mouth. You have mastered puffs, mum-mum cookies, bananas and most recently toast. You like to hit the food and move it all around your tray before trying to eat it. We will work to add more and more things to your list of foods since you are so good at eating just about anything. This morning we weighed and you are a solid 25 pounds which is larger than several 2-year-olds we know!
For the last few weeks you have been sleeping mostly on your belly. This created a new problem because now you wake up with wet jammies after 12 hours of sleep. Even when we change your diaper at 10 you fill it up before morning. We had to buy you size 5 night time diapers and they seem to be capable of keeping you dry until morning. I have also found you peeking over the bumper and under the bumper of your crib when you are waiting for mommy or daddy to come and get you out of bed.
You are still not crawling but you are rocking. You even started rocking in your jump jump which makes me worry that it is going to collapse! When you can't reach something that you want you will roll to it but you are starting to not hate being on your tummy so much. I bet by this time next month you will be crawling.
Ace, you are quite the little talker, too. You jibber jabber to yourself in the mornings and I really enjoy listening to you through the monitor. You say "ma ma ma mama" and "buh buh buh" and "ba ba ba". I told daddy today that I am positive that "da da" will be next. On the way to work the other morning you were even singing along to the radio in the backseat. You don't seem to be identifying anyone with your little words but they sure sound cute coming out!
The weather is getting warmer so we will be spending more and more time outside in the coming months. We spent pretty much all day outside on Tybee yesterday for the parade and you loved it. I am looking forward to watching you explore the world!
I love you so much, Ace!
Love,
Mommy
