A at 8 months...

My little guy is 8 months old today!  In 4 short months, he'll be a year old.  I think time is passing more quickly with A than it did with E.

A is still army crawling.  He will get up into the 'traditional' crawling stance but doesn't  make forward motion yet.  However, he has perfected the army crawl and can get where he wants without trouble.  Its hillarious to watch his eyes light up as he sees the cat and then he takes off like a shot after her.  Poor kitty.  But, it is pretty funny.  He discovered her food bowl this month and loves to try and play/eat it.  Crazy boy.

Feeding himself is his new favorite activity.  I forgot how messy this stage of life is.  He feeds himself mostly avocado and banana.  He'll even get a bit upset if he sees a banana and you aren't sharing it with him.  A is definitely getting a mind of his own and he knows what he wants.

No new teeth this month but I believe that his top ones are going to pop any day now.

"So big!" is A's newest trick.  He loves getting a reaction from people.  So, he puts his hands in the air and grins as you say, "So big!".  He's all ready for football season and "Touchdown!"

Sleeping all night isn't happening regularly but it is happening more frequently.  So, that's nice.  Mostly he gets up 4:30ish to eat and then will typically sleep until 7-7:30ish.  However, this morning he slept until 8:30.  It was heaven!!

A took his first trip out of state this month.  Cousin Caleb get married in Indiana.  We packed up headed south.  We stopped in Battle Creek at the Binder Park Zoo and then continued down to Aunt Evie's for the wedding.  We had a great weekend and A had fun meeting all the Indy cousins.  He got to swim in a pool for the first time and he loved it.  He rode tolerably well...Saturday morning was a bit tough...he just wanted to play and not be stuck in the car seat, but overall it was okay.