Happy 8 months!

You woke up wet right through this rainy birthday but with the biggest smile on your face! I got you all washed up and changed and fed you your breakfast and are now looking through the photo album with Daddy.

Many changes have happened in your life since I've written here last. You are sitting up very well now and only fall over after trying to reach for a toy thats out of your reach. You catch yourself and don't bonk your head much now. You are getting very strong. You stand up on my lap and while holding my hands you rock back and forth and dance. Mommy sings 'dancie dancie' and you smile wide and dance some more. You also will sit down when mommy says sit down and stand up when I say stand up. Sometimes you give me a smoochie when you stand all the way up again. You love this game and will play it until you are too tired to stand up anymore. You creep really well while on your belly on the floor when your toy is out of reach and its something you really want. You lift one leg and push with your foot. Daddy said you almost went from your belly to sitting up yesterday, but got distracted and plopped back down again.

We got you weighed yesterday and you weight 18lbs 5oz! Mommy, Daddy and Angela played a guessing game before you got weighed to see who was closest. Mommy guessed 17lbs 9oz, Angela said 18lbs even and Daddy was the winner at 18lbs 2oz. I was surprised you put on so much weight since your needles a few weeks ago.

You sleep so good still and will go to bed with no fuss about 8-9 pm every night and on rare occasions you are awake when mommy gets home from work at 10pm. Its a nice surprise when you are up and wanting to cuddle with mommy. You are such a happy baby! Your favourite toys right now are your mirror which you go to bed with each day for naps and at night when you fall asleep. You really like to look at yourself and make funny faces. You still like the jumperoo but are tending to prefer to roll around on the floor with your small mountain of toys now and can get around pretty quick and keep us chasing you as you spot something farther and farther away. Another game you really like is to make silly faces at Daddy. You scrunch up your face and breathe funny like and make us all laugh. You mostly just make funny faces at Daddy though, but thats because he seems to really enjoy teaching you how to make them! HAHA!!!

We took you to the park for a picnic this past week when the weather was warmer and you played in the gravel for the first time. You sat and picked up the tiny rocks and let them fall between your fingers to the ground again. You were so enthralled with this that you didn't even try to put them in your mouth. Daddy took some pictures of you and you looked so sweet. I also put you on the slide for the first time, but your leg kept twisting around and you didn't like it much. We did get some pictures of you though. You really love the swing at the park too, but at this particular park there was no baby swing so you sat on our laps and swung that way. Daddy rides you on his neck sometimes now and you just love love this! You think you are on top of the world and we snapped a cute picture of you reaching for a tree branch. You like to pull Daddy's hair and eat it though, so your time on top of the world is shortlived. You sit in your stroller and are noticing the world around you so much more and will reach for things in the stores and sometimes will catch a sleeve of a shirt or something else close. You also love to pull off your shoes and socks and for some reason they seem to be pretty tasty. Im not sure why though.