Chris - 8 months old!

Yesterday Chris officially turned 8 months old. AWWWW!

He continues to be an amazingly happy baby. Each time he sees me his whole body wiggles with excitement and makes me all smiley. He's even gotten so excited and wiggled so much he's fallen over. awwww!

Some things he's up to:

• He clearly knows his own name and responds by looking or talking back to you if you say it


• Separation anxiety has set in over the last two weeks specifically (this is the reverse of all the wiggling I previously mentioned).


• He's starting in on the Gerber pick-up stars (the kind that melt in your mouth) but isn't so sure about the whole solid food thing yet.


• He likes to sing along with Nicole in the car

Some general things about him:

• He's a belly sleeper


• When he wakes up and can get in "walrus" position to look at me he smiles so big. This is promptly and always followed by lifting his arms and legs off the ground and balancing on his big pot belly while he wiggles in excitement and squeals


• He's nursing 3X, getting formula 2X and eating food 2X/day. I'll be upping him to 3 meals a day this weekend. His favorite foods are black beans, pineapple and yellow squash with rice cereal.


• He likes books but I think he's a little confused by the 2D nature of the pictures because he tries to grab the objects


• Poor thing's on his way to tubes in his ears. We'll know 3/3/10.


• Bathtime = splash time = big fun


• He LOVES to be tickled and cuddled


• Every night before bed (8-8:30ish) he gets rocked and has 3 versus of Amazing Grace sung to him (and one verse of humming for good measure). He holds his "sleepy bear" while we rock and sucks his thumb.