Crawling and Talking and Eating, OH MY!

So our boy is growing faster and FASTER!! He is definitely on the move. He enjoys being mobile. He can crawl, but still mostly prefers the army crawl... it gets him to where he's going faster. He is already pulling up on toys, mom and dad, furniture, pretty much anything stable. I walked in yesterday to find him standing up in his crib. Needless to say we lowered the mattress that night.


He is still sleeping through the night, though waking to grunt around every so often. He now sleeps every which way. His head will be at one end one minute and the other end the next. He's now to the point where he can fall asleep on his back, tummy, side, however he lands. He mostly likes to have his head in the corner of the crib.


He is still between two and three naps. We thought he was ready to drop the 3rd nap, but about a week in he started waking up at night again. Once we re-instated the 3rd nap he went back to sleeping through the night. I think he'll probably drop it for good in the next month or so. I REALLY enjoyed the week w/o it, though it was harder to get dinner done... especially now that he's mobile.


Jake LOVES his food. He ate EVERYTHING at first without any refusals. As we've started introducing fruit, he's decided he doesn't like Avacado. Silly boy! This sneaky Mommy can sneak it in with other veggies though and he'll eat it up. He's had, rice cereal, green beans, green peas, zucchini squash, yellow squash, avocado, carrots, sweet potatoes, and butternut squash, apples and pears. He's become a pro at drinking out of his sippy cup. Just this week he started to tip it up by himself. It's so fun having him eat with us at our meals. He STILL has NO TEETH, so no table food yet. I keep thinking they HAVE to be coming in b/c he'll drool all over everything and EVERYTHING goes in his mouth... including my fingers. (Though from a nursing perspective, I guess I should be thankful that he still has no teeth)


We made our first trip to Dallas this past weekend. It was our first long car ride since Christmas. He did great. It was easier breaking it up on the way there than taking the trip in one fell swoop on the way back. We made a stop in Abilene Fri night and then drove the rest of the way in on Sat. Drove back to Lubbock on Monday. Jake got to see A LOT of family. He did AWESOME!! He slept much better in the pack-n-play than I expected him to. He did well with all the new faces and quickly warmed up. He wasn't sure what to think about the wood floors. I think he missed having carpet to crawl around on. He pretty much stayed stationary on the wood.... hmmm.. maybe we should install wood floors... Just kidding.


I just can't believe that our baby is 8 MONTHS OLD!! It just doesn't seem possible. He is such a FUN boy. I LOVE being a stay at home Mommy. We just bought a pool for the backyard and we enjoy using it almost daily. Jake likes spashing around in it and has even put his face in the water a few times. His favorite thing to do these days is sit out in the front yard under the shade tree (yes, we have some of those in Lubbock) and watch the cars go by. Some enjoy people watching, Jake enjoys car watching. He also likes it when we walk across the street to visit the horses.


I guess that's about all for now. Jake is growing and changing more every day. Each new stage is SO MUCH FUN... though exhausting :o)

There were a few things that Jake wanted in the blog that didn't make it..... so here, I'll just let him tell you what they were.

Did you catch all that?? Important stuff!!

Well, here's the slide show for the month... ENJOY!! He's sooooo stinkin' cute!!