Eight months!

Happy 8 months my sweet baby boy! I'm having a little bit of a in 4 months you'll be 1 crisis but I will soak up every month until then and every month after. It's crazy to me that a year ago I was pregnant, still waiting to meet you and wondering what you'd be like. The truth is, you're so much more amazing than I ever could've imagined or hoped for. You are complimented constantly on what a chill and good baby you are, and it's true. We actually brought you to our signing appointment with our estate attorney a few days ago, and you just sat on the floor and played quietly the entire time. You impress us constantly and we are so incredibly thankful for you! You're the perfect mix of wild and calm and we treasure that so much.

You've entered the exploring stage and you are into everything. I mean, ev-ery-thing. I set you on the floor in the living room and suddenly you're in the kitchen trying to get into the dog water, or playing with cords, or shoving a dog toy in your mouth, ya know, usual things ;) You get up on your knees a lot but haven't quite figured out how to move using them so the army crawl is your method of transportation. You are SO fast. It's ridiculous! You certainly keep me on my toes during the day. You also crawl to me when I ask you too which is the most adorable thing ever and I swoon every time.

You DON'T SLEEP SWADDLED anymore! Yippee! We didn't rush you and instead just listened to you. You started keeping yourself awake trying to break out of the swaddle and once your arm was out fell soundly asleep. SO, we invested in the zipadeezip (because if you don't have anything you like to claw your face and pull my hair and pull your hair and play), and it's been working amazingly. You sleep, we sleep, you don't break out and wake yourself up. It's perfect.

You still don't eat. But, like the swaddle, I have a feeling you're just going to take your sweet time and it'll click one of these days. For a little while it felt stressful, like we were doing something wrong  because you didn't like real food but I'm learning to just listen to you and follow your cues. Food will happen eventually ;)

You're all about independency during the day, but at night you still need your cuddles and snuggles. I honestly don't know when we'll transition you to the crib, let alone a separate room. We're not rushing it, both your daddy and I enjoy having your sweet self in bed with us and considering you still nurse during the night, I'm perfectly fine with not having to get out of bed to feed you.

Your hair is perfect. It's getting long but sort of perfectly so. You don't have a mullet which is insanely impressive and it's soft and amazing and I'm a little jealous. It's starting to curl around your ears as it gets longer but I'm not quite ready to cut it yet. I'm sure it'll need to be cut before you turn 1 and I'll cry because little boys get haircuts not babies. 

You're growing and changing and you're so fun. I love hanging out with you all day and I still am constantly in awe and disbelief that I grew you in my body and that you're mine. You are so unbelievably full of joy and I hope you're always that way. You find such joy in every situation and it's teaching me to do the same. You are so incredibly loved!