8 Months Old!

Dear Lucas,

You are 3/4 of a year! How is that possible?! You are growing so much. You are wearing 6-9 month tops, 9 month pants and size 3 shoes. I think length wise you are a 2 but your feet are so fat that you will only fit in a 3. Your size isn't moving too fast but your personality is just breaking through. You are one crazy little dude. You make us laugh so much.

When you learn a new sound you can make you love to put it on repeat. Right now you know how to make a hacking sound and you think it is hilarious. You also added the up and down head nod to your side to side one. You do this a lot. We know you don't know that is yes and no but sometimes your timing could not be more perfect to things we are saying to you. Like, "you are such a cutie". Queue the yes nod. Or Daddy telling Mommy we need to do laundry. Yes nod…yes, yes you do:) I have a video of you doing it (very hard to catch) so I really need to figure out how to post it.

You have also learned to throw a temper tantrum. We thought we had a lot more time without this but nope! We know when you are tired or when you don't like something we're doing, like washing your face after you eat. This may be the thing you hate most right now but sorry buddy, you are going to have a clean face. You figured out how to pull yourself up to standing so you want to do this all the time, on everything.

We just bought you this musical table though and so far it's great!

We are very shocked that you are doing this as you are not even close to crawling. You don't seem interested in that at all. When you are on the hard wood floor you push yourself backwards on your tummy and when you are on the carpet you just roll to where you want to go.

And boy are you a mover. You would climb all over us all day if you could. Oh, and if you are in a good mood you love to jump in your jumper. You jump like there is no tomorrow. This has led to you thinking that when you are standing on your own you can jump but so far we have caught you. This past month we took you to your first zoo visit. If the animals were moving and close enough you were interested. The giraffes were pretty cool.

You also love birds. Oh my…when a bird flies over I think you may give yourself whiplash, haha! You celebrated your first Halloween as a Half Moon Bay pumpkin. You were just too adorable!

We had lots of trick or treaters and you greeted every single one of them. You love to watch people so you were pretty much in heaven. We started swim class this month. You love bath time so we were hoping you would like the pool and boy do you. You started to get submerged your first day and you are becoming a little fishy splashing and kicking almost the whole class.

I found a baby story time at the library where we sing songs and the librarian reads books. This keeps your interest the whole half hour. You love songs so I am not surprised.  We also discovered a Youtube video of a song called What Does the Fox Say?

Nothing has ever kept your attention on a screen for this long. If you are crying you immediately stop when we show you this and as soon as it stops you go right back to crying. It's crazy how much you love this video. You had a play date with this beauty.

You have become so much more aware of other babies so to have one so close up got you excited. You wanted to pull her hair and knock her over but I was there to help you stay on her good side;)

You are just loving food more and more. You usually eat a solid food meal three times a day. You have added prunes, black beans, tomatoes (mixed with other things because on their own you are not a fan yet), blueberries, green beans, cauliflower, and broccoli to your repertoire.

We also occasionally give you Puffs. At first they were literally the only thing you didn't immediately put in your mouth but you have figured it out and you love them. So much so though that when there were a few days of these and fruit it took you awhile to be ok with veggies again so we are making sure to spread out giving you them.

You also nurse about 6 times during the day and 1-2 times at night. There was a lot this month so I am trying not to drag on but one more thing…your sleep. Oh how you have changed. You have gone from 4 short naps to almost always 2 long naps (1-2 hours). You still hate going to sleep. Every time we pull out your sleep sack you start to cry but it doesn't last long and you go down within minutes. That's not to say you never freak out when going down but it has gotten so much better.

You go down for the night between 645 and 730, waking up 1-2 times to eat and then getting up for the day between 5:30 and 7 am. You tend to lean towards 530 when it's Daddy's day to get up with you and 7 when it is mine;) Oh my goodness we love you! You are such an adventurous, fun, inquisitive baby and we are so excited to be on this journey with you. Maybe next month you'll learn your name? But if not, that's ok:)

We love you!
Mommy and Daddy

Happy Blogiversary to Me!

Hi there! It has been a very long time since I have posted something other than my son's monthly updates. Last month I swore to myself that I would do at least one other post to catch up. Well I didn't know what the date was and when I checked my calendar and wouldn't you know it, tomorrow is my son's 8-month birthday…ah! I only have today to blog if I am going to keep that promise to myself. I was then thinking about how I was pretty sure that I have been blogging for a about a year so I went and checked and my first blog was one year ago today. Some things just happen for a reason;)

One of the blogs that I follow and love so much was "gone" for a little while so when she came back she thought about how she was going to write about everything that has happened. She then said, to heck with it (I am completely summarizing here) I'll start with what right now. So that is what I am going to do. With a little background;)

The hubby: He has a job! Woohoo! He was offered a job on Aug. 28 and started his new job on Sept. 16. It's been crazy with varying schedules but so far it's going well and he his happy.

Me: On Aug. 28 I quit my job. Well, I tried anyway. We had decided that for our family right now it would be best for me to stay home and take care of Lucas. So as soon as Kevin got the offer I called to give my two weeks. We wanted to take our trip to San Diego in between my last day and his first. Well my boss asked if I would be interested in working part-time. I was so caught off-guard and for some reason a bit excited. I could still work and have an income and stay home with my son?! So before I gave an answer I talked it over with Kevin and he reminded me I hate my job…oh yeah. Even though I have been unhappy for a couple years now there are still people I feel responsible to so my compromise was I would stay on until my replacement was found and trained. My end date is now Dec. 31. I have been asked twice to stay on longer while my account goes through some transitions and I considered it but my part-time is supposed to be made of 4 hours a day when I can fit it in. It is rare that I only work 4 hours in a day and that I don't do any work while Lucas is awake so I have decided I really need to stop at the end of the year. Kevin would like me to stop today but he understands that I want to go out on a good note.

Lucas: Well tomorrow you'll get most of the updates on him:) Some things I won't write to him though… Lucas has started to get a bit needy. He has been so comfortable with anyone that Kevin and I wondered if he would ever like us more than everyone else. Well, he has. We like that we finally really feel he knows that we're the ones who take care of him but at the same time we don't want a kid that can't be held by or cared for by any one else so I am trying to get us involved in more things. You know, between work, keeping up our house and other obligations;) We had a play date with an adorable friend who is the same age as Lucas  who you could tell was exposed to more than him. She was just gentler with him and easier going with other people so I have found a couple activities for us to do each week and I am going to join our community's mom's group that sets up play dates with other people who have babies in the same age group. I am putting us out there! Lucas loves being around other people so I think this will be great for both of us.

Ok, I am not one who is ever short on words so this is longer and not as interesting as I had planned in my head:) but I feel caught up. And I really want to get some more blog entries in before the end of year. We shall see!

Oh yeah, I'm hosting Thanksgiving for about 10 adults and Kevin is working that morning and not scheduled to be home until noon so please wish me luck!