9 Months ALREADY?!

 
Age: 9 months

Length/Weight:  (I'll update these on Friday after your Dr Appt!)
Milestones: CRAWLING!! You started crawling a few days after you turned 8 months, now you are not only crawling, but you are climbing up stairs, pulling yourself up to stand, cruising on the furniture, everything! I absolutely love walking into your room in the morning to you standing up giving me a big grin, you're also figuring out how to bounce on the bed when you stand, lol. We have some new teeth coming in now too!

Favorite Food: Anything that Mommy is eating. If you see me with a plate of food and I don't share you get really upset. I have realized now that we are going to have to start sitting down at the table to eat so you can have your food.

Favorite Toy: You are loving the gym you got from Santa for Christmas, we have adjusted it so you can stand up and play with it. You're also REALLY into balls right now, you love rolling them across the floor then running over to get them.

What Makes You Laugh: You laugh at funny faces, and tickling under your chin. You also like to be upsidedown, lol.

Interesting things that happened this month: We had Easter this month and you helped hunt for eggs. (Really the big kids found all of yours for you.) We had to buy a bunch of gates for the house so you wouldn't go crawling up the stairs, lol. We also got you a bunch of summer clothes, though it's been a little too gross outside for you to wear them much yet. Oh, and you got your first pair of REAL shoes. You're not too sure about them yet, but I'm trying to get you used to them for when you're walking.

What Mommy is thinking: I am thinking that I just LOVE you so much. There are not words to describe how much I love you! I miss you terribly when I'm not with you, especially now that you are older and you are so expressive and happy. You are by far my favorite person in the world. :-) Only 3 more months till your birthday!! AHHH

8 Months Old!

Age: 8 months
Length: 28-28.5 inches
Weight: 18.5-19 lbs
Milestones: You started pulling yourself up to sit. Now whenever we put you on the floor you immediately pull yourself up to a sitting position. You even want to pull yourself up to stand, sometimes you grab onto the edge of the couch or the bars of your crib and try so hard to pull up, you just haven't gotten the hang of it yet. You also started clapping, it's SO adorable. Sometimes I'll just catch you clapping your hands, it's too cute. We also started feeding your table food, you can even eat pancakes, which you LOVE!

Favorite Food: You have a sweet tooth, fruit, puffs, cookies, and you love anything cold.
Favorite Toy: Right now it's anything you can get your hands on, the funniest thing is that a sock can keep you entertained for 30 minutes, you just sit there waving it around in the air or chewing on it.
What Makes You Laugh: Silly faces and tickling, and swinging, you LOVE to swing!
Interesting things that happened this month: This month we had your first St. Patricks Day, we also let you swing for the first time this month. You started holdiong your own bottle, we took you to the zoo for the first time!

What Mommy is thinking: I am thinking that I am going to miss this time of your life. You are at such a perfect age right now, giggling and clapping and smiling for everyone and I know in six years when you are losing your first tooth (as your cousin Maddy did this week!) I am going to be missing a different kind of toothless smile. I know all babies grow up to be kids at some point or another, but it seems like it happens quicker than we mothers would like. All in all though, I'm really thinking about how wonderful you are, the sweetest little boy and the joy of my life. Only 4 months till your birthday!!

7 Months!

Age:  7 months
Length: 27.5-28 inches
Weight: 17.5-18 lbs
Milestones: You started eating cookies and puffs this month, I am thinking I should buy stock in puffs considering how much you love them! You are now self-feeding so I have given you some table food to try, I cut up a banana and gave it to you (you loved it!) You've been eating meat now for the last 3 weeks, you love it. You also started saying "ma" and "ba".

Favorite Food:  Puffs or cookies
Favorite Toy: You l-o-v-e your sock monkey. I don't know if it's cause of all the extra legs or what, but you just love that thing!!!

What Makes You Laugh: Pretty much anything right now, lol. Sometimes you even laugh at yourself!
Interesting things that happened this month: This was your first Valentine's Day, and you started a class at The Little Gym, which you absolutely love. (And so does Mommy!)

What Mommy is thinking: I am thinking that you are going to cause me a lot of trouble when you're older with girls. You are the biggest flirt, you always have a smile for the pretty ladies, whether they are strangers or not, lol. I am feeling a little bitter sweet this month though. You are going to be crawling soon, and you are no longer my cuddle bug. You still like to cuddle with me, but it's pretty much limited to when you're ready to go down for a nap or bed. This makes me sad and happy, sad that I don't get as much cuddle time, but soo much happier that you are becoming independant and meeting all those milestones! Only 5 months till your birthday!!!

New Things every day!

Sam is doing something new every day I swear!! It's like we show him how to do these things and he doesn't get it and then all of a sudden one day he does! He now can eat those gerber puffs (meaning he can pick them up and put them in his mouth all by himself) and has mostly gotten the hang of how to use a sippy cup. This is all just today! He's also started getting himself up on his hands and knees when he's on the floor so crawling is imminent. But I'm starting to think that he will crawl for only a short amount of time before he starts to walk. Today at our Little Gym class, I was holding onto his hands and he was taking steps. He walked with me for about 5 feet before he was done, I couldn't believe it!! Only one week till he's 7 months old... time is going by sooo fast!

Getting SO big!

These past few weeks a LOT of things have happened. Sam has started sitting regularly now and can sit on his own for 10+ minutes. I couldn't believe it when he started doing it, it was literally overnight! But now he loves to sit and play, a lot of his toys are easier to play with while sitting, and he's discovered that and LOVES to sit now. He's also started to push his whole chest up when he's laying on his tummy, before he would lift his head and the top portion of his chest, now he pushes his whole chest up, one more step towards crawling!

I can't remember if I mentioned this or not, but we joined a class at the Little Gym and Sam has SOO much fun whenever we go. He loves the instructor and any chance he gets to give her a smile he does, she even calls him her little flirt, which I think is hilarious. He also likes to see the other babies and have baby conversations, which is adorable.

Also we moved him from an infant carrier to a convertable car seat.... *sniff sniff* my baby is getting so big!! He just got TOO heavy to carry around in one of those. I loved the conveinence of having one, but he wasn't comfortable anymore, it was on the biggest setting it would go and it was still too tight, plus his feet were about dangling off the end! He loves his new seat though, he's sitting up a little higher so he can see more.

All in all, a lot has happened just in the last few weeks!

6 Months

Age: 6 months

Length: 27 inches

Weight: 15.9 lbs

Milestones: You laugh sooo hard now at the silliest things, you are rolling really well from both front to back and back to front, you can sit by yourself for a very short period of time, and you try really hard to army crawl. You sleep through the night about 95% of the time. (Yay!) You got your first sink bath this month, you liked it, lol.

You got your first tooth a few days ago, and you're working on another one already! We've also started the 2nd stage foods and are mixing the veggies up, we're going to try meat soon too!

Favorite Food: You really like corn and sweet potatoes, and banana's and oranges.

Favorite Toy: You are starting to get really excited about toys now... but your favorite is a little rattle lion thing that your Nana and Papaw bought you for Christmas. You love that thing! You are always chewing on it and waving it around. You also are really starting to get into the excersize gym that Santa brought for Christmas!

What Makes You Laugh: Your Poppa makes you laugh so hard, just by doing random things, you laugh when we fake sneeze at you and tickle your sides, you are thinking about laughing at Peek-a-boo, but you haven't figured it out yet!

Interesting things that happened this month: Christmas was this month as well as New Years, you had a great time! You played in the snow for the first time and loved it!

What Mommy is thinking: I can't believe how big you are getting and that it's already been six months since you were born.  Everybody says that the time goes by so fast, but it's hard to see it until I think about how big you have gotten. Your cousin's Jude and Lily are proof of how much you have grown in the last six months! I am so excited for all the new things you're going to do in these next few months!

Gonna have a tooth soon!!

  I looked in Sam's mouth this morning an saw that he has a white spot on his gums with a little red spot where the tooth is trying to poke through! So we are going to have a tooth very, very soon! I knew it was going to be soon sinc ehe's constantly chewing on things and whenever I feed him he's always biting the nipple... As much as I wanted to breast feed and couldn't, this is one of the very few positive things that I can see about not breastfeeding.

He's also growing like a weed! He's almost all grown out of his 6 month clothes. I put him in a 6 month outfit this morning and the pants are like capris they are so short on him! It makes me sad, my little boy is starting to get so big! He's also starting to pull himself up and try to sit...

Where did my little bitty baby go???