8 months

Ethan is 8 months old and doing great. (He's actually about 81/2months now because I'm a bit late doing his 8mo post) We are loving watching him grow and discover the world around him. It's so much fun to play with Ethan and we love it when he lets out his huge uncontrollable laughs while we're being silly. He is still a really happy laid back baby. He's a big flirt whenever we're out and totally light up the room with his smiles.  

Ethan a busy little guy learning how to crawl (he still can't properly crawl yet but he's getting close). He is scooting around pulling himself with his arms and trying to push with his legs. He spends a lot of time and effort in doing push ups and butt up in the air type of yoga poses. He does a combo of rolling and scooting to get all sorts of places. He's explored under the couch, in his closet in his room, behind his bedroom door and scooted into the hall from his room. He is trying to pull up onto things, and is crawling over things (with a lot of effort). Ethan holds on to anything and everything to stand up and is really sturdy, he a lot of times with hold on with just one hand and experiment trying to take a few steps. He will take some steps with us holding his hands and walking with him or while pushing his yellow push lion. Ethan is burning tons of the calories he is packing in with all of his movement, he weighs in at 14lbs this month.

Eating is still going really well. Ethan is still loving anything we give him. He loves to eat especially when he gets to have something that we are eating. Ethan drinks water from a cup and is loving his cookie monster sippy cup with a straw, he picks it up and holds it himself. He has started to feed himself which he has really enjoyed, his fine motor skills are getting a lot better so he is able to pick up small pieces of food with his thumb and fingers. He has tried lots of new foods this month. 

Green Beans

Red Potatoes

Multiple types of Squash

Blackberries

Kiwi

Whole Milk Yogurt - Plain and with fruit

Frozen Yogurt
Crackers

Cereal Puffs

Swiss Cheese -(not a huge fan)

Pear

Pumpkin Pancakes

Baked Zucchini 

Cucumber

Sleeping. Ethan has been going down to sleep at night really well lately with little if any fussing. I love rocking him to sleep at night with him all cuddled up in my lap. He had been going down at 8 and sleeping until 5 when I'd nurse him and he'd go back for sleep for another few hours. He has started waking up in the night again, we are thinking that it might be those darn teeth trying to start coming in but no sign of teeth yet. He just wants to hang out and be nursed around 2am.

Here are some photo's of a few weeks ago when we went to go play in the leaves at Wash Park. Ethan, as always, loved tasting the leaves and watching the people going by on the path.