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