Mark is 8 Months

Time needs to slow down my little man. You are truly amazing. This month you are bound and determined to move. First you perfected rolling to get to things and now you are working on the forward motion. Watching you move forward is kind of painful to since you haven’t figured out a smooth army crawl. you like to get up on your hands and knees and rock back and forth then you will move your knees just enough that it forces you to lunge forward and face plant. Then it looks like you are trying to swim to whatever the object is that you want. You have made a few good crawling motions but just end up falling forward. You also figured out how to sit up from laying down. I just think it is so amazing to see your development and how you learn and teach yourself how to do things.
Since you are now getting all over the front room, you are starting to make it to things that you are not supposed to have. The main thing that you go after is shoes. I don’t understand baby’s fascination with shoes especially  since they are so gross. You love to lick what ever you find, so We are also being more diligent about picking up the little things so that you don’t choke.
Your two words that you say consistently are ma-ma-ma-ma and da-da-da-da. It seems that when you are in a happy mood you will usually be saying da-da and when you are fussy, want to eat, tired, or want to be held you say ma-ma, little stinker, I love you always!
You have moved up to size 4 diapers and wear 12 or 18 month clothes. Some of the 12 month shirts are just too small for you. I think it is odd that they don’t fit since I know that you weigh less than what Katelynn did at this age.  It has to be your height.
You eat 4 bottles a day between 28 and 32 ounces. You eat three meals a day and love to feed yourself. I try to find things to you to chew on so that you learn to love the different textures of food. I blended up some asparagus and peas for you and you really did not like that taste. You are eating baby food much better now but would still rather eat something with your fingers.
Some of your favorite things to play with are, of course, Katelynn, the Fisher-Price phone, the pop-up pals, the Costco wipes bag since it is so crinkly and the leap frog letter Caterpillar. I gave you a rhino stuffed animal that we have because Katelynn would always get mad at you and say, “Mine!” when you attack and try to eat her puppy. The Rhino is about the same size and you still attack and try to fit any of it into your mouth. It is quite amusing to watch you play with Crash the Rhino.

I can’t wait to see what this month brings for you!

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