Keeping up with Michael

So................The Boy is Crawling, EVERYWHERE. Since crawling has began we have also discovered how to throw a major meltdown, any and every time mommy or daddy leave the room. So now, we are being followed, everywhere, & now live in a barricaded living room. He is also standing on everything. He grabs the couch or the edge of anything and pulls himself up. He did this in his crib the other day so we had to drop his bed down to the last notch. That was hard to grasp. This had to happen on the day I was going to through clothes, weeding out what wasn't fitting, what he wasn't going to wear that did fit because it's too warm, and pulling out all the clothes that we have to grow into. The last of them. I just sat in the chair in the room watching my growing boy and looking at all the clothes we have grown out of. Just taking him in, and wondering where this past 8 months has gone. Seems like yesterday I was screaming at the doctor just to get him out of me and now here we are, 8 months later with a crawling, almost walking(I swear) little boy. I know that is part of life, and he is going to grow no matter what, but right now, one wish I have is for him to just slow down. He took his time with learning to roll over and everything else but now it seems like he has pushed the fast forward button and is on the move and is not stopping, for anything.

He's a movin!

Yesterday Michael officially started to crawl! He knows he has Independence now and goes for anything and everything he wants. He wasn't feeling good yesterday however so every time I had to leave the room he started to cry but started to crawl in the direction I went. Melted my heart. I recorded this video today. Michael loves the cell phone. He has been so fascinated with it since pretty much birth. It's been in his life since the beginning and that's because we keep in contact with daddy while he's on the road. Enjoy!

Michael @ 8 months

Today Michael is 8 months old. I can't believe we have already made it to this point! I am so thankful and blessed and extremely proud! Here is a little about Michael at 8 months old!

He is starting to crawl! Yikes......  He gets up on all fours and starts rocking back and forth, like he's trying to get his engine started haha, and then he moves on knee, then one hand, then the other knee and plop! Down for the count. But he's up again and try try try again. Most of the time he will be just a scoot away from getting to one of his toys so he gets up on all fours, scoots once, reaches for the toy and plop, but he's got the toy in his hand, haha. It's so cute to watch.

Clothes-Where do I begin on that! This boy is growing like a weed! He is in 12 month tee's but those are starting to get too small. He has a very brod upper body & is long. I have put 18 months on him here and there and they hang a little but not much. He is in 6-12 month pants. He has a small waste. I found a pair of 3-6 month shorts in his drawer the other day and put them on him and they fit, haha. Just were a bit short and showed off those cute baby roll thighs of his! I had gone over to a friends house with Michael and the weather had cooled down quite a bit and Michael was in shorts and I didn't have any pants for him so she gave me a pair of 18 months for him to wear and the only issue with those were was the waste was too big but his legs fit just fine.

Food-He is eating 4oz of some kind of cereal a day(we change between rice, oatmeal, multi grain, and oatmeal w/ fruit). He has some sort of fruit to go with that. He is still going for the bottle multiple times throughout the day and I know he shouldn't be but I really don't have a problem with that. He is teething and when he gets his bottles half the time he doesn't finish it or doesn't want to eat it because his mouth hurts. In the evening around 7 he gets his dinner. We have an entre', veggies, and what I call desert(fruit). I make sure he eats all his entre' then all the veggies next and if he has finished both of those I give him his desert(fruit). I tried to make my own baby food one night and let's just say it was a disaster! I have not been brave enough to try again but I will one of these days. So for now its the Jard baby foods and hey if Michael likes them no loves them then hey I can't complain. I also have given his mashed potatoes from a resteraunt and he hated them! Gave him a lemon for the second time and he loves it.

Juice: I started giving Michael juice about a month ago. He likes it and is picky when it comes to which ones he will drink. I found this really good organic juice at babies r us that Michael loves and it's purple carrot with blueberry. I only pour two ounces of the juice into a bottle and add four ounces of water. He doesn't know and doesn't mind.  He also likes white grape juice and pear juice but isn't a big fan of apple juice. I tried to give him a carrot and banana juice but he wasn't into that at all. I do the same watering down with all his juice. I don't want too much sugar to get into his system so I give him a little and a lot of water. I have tried giving him bottles with just water but that doesn't work, he'd rather drink water out of my water bottle than be forced to drink his own water.

Teething- So I though he had 3 teeth on the bottom because that's what it looked like when they were coming in. Turns out it's only 2 teeth and one of them is fused which is why I though there were 3. The one that is fused has a u shape cut out and then below that the tooth is connected. I wish I could draw and show you what I mean because it really is hard to explain. He chews on everything including his thumbs. I tried the teething tablets and they weren't working and a friend suggested I try using 3 instead of 2 so I tried that and they finally worked. So far I don't feel any more teeth trying to break through.

Sleeping: Michael totally knows his momma's sced. and is sticking to it. I am but no means a morning person. I never have been and never will be. He wakes up about 6 or 7 and wants his bottle. I make his bottle, change him, and bring him back to bed with me, and right to sleep his goes for another hour or two. {Thank You Michael :)} Once he wakes up its time to play for a while and then about noon he eats his cereal and almost right after he is ready for a nap. That nap can last anywhere from 30 mins to an Hour depending one how tired he was. Then he's up ready for a bottle and play for 2 hours and then another nap. It's like this all afternoon. He is sleeping a lot but I see the changes in his body everyday. Hes a growin. At night I have been laying down in my bed with him until he falls asleep and this hasn't been happening until 11 or later at night. That's usually when I go to bed so that why I said he knows my sced.

Bottles: We switch between bottles and sippy cups throughout the day. I am trying to get him used to the sippy cup so hopefully by my 10 month goal he will no longer be on the bottle. I hope to get him off the bottle sooner than 10 months but the goal is to be off at 10.

Swimming; We have taken Michael swimming every Sunday for the last month and that boy is a fish. He has no fear of the water and I love it. We will just support him under his belly but his arms and legs are free and he kicks and splashes! One day he was not into swimming at all and so we got out and baby went to sleep, poor guy was tired and I didn't even realize :( 

Diapers: He is still in size 3 diapers but I am going to switch to size four once he is done with this batch of diapers.

Talking: It's all about the "Dada, Mama, and Ba Ba" oh and let's not forget the growling. Don't know where he got that from but he loves doing it. He makes it a point to start talking loudly when he gets in a shopping cart. He just gets so excited and he can't contain himself so the world has to know how excited he is. People always laugh and smile and comment on what a happy baby he is. When I have to wipe his eye goup off which he is hating more and more he starts to fuss and whine "Dadadadadada" He knows.....

Eye Update: We took Michael to his eye appointment to see what they can do about his blocked tear duct. She said she doesn't want to take any dramatic steps(surgery) until he was a year. She said it can be one of two problems. Either the nasal cavity where the tear canal drains is blocked or the tear canal is to narrow. If it doesn't correct itself by the time he is a year they will do the surgery and all they would have to do is unblock the nasal cavity or they would have to put a tube in the tear canal in widen it.

Bath Time: Kid still loves his bath time. We ditched the baby tub a month or so back and we are in the big boy bath tub. I don't have him sit up in the bath because he still gets too excited and throws himself back. So he lays on a towel and kicks and slashes in the water.

I know I am forgetting a bunch of things but I think this is long enough and I will add more when I think about them or remember.