HOLY CRAP! He's 8 MONTHS OLD!

Can you believe it? It's kind of freaking me out a little! Let's recap what his new and exciting little talents and abilities are.

• He has discovered the funness of his knees and hands and the way they allow him to rock back and forth. This is instead of his usual army crawl on legs and mostly arms pulling him.
• He eats his solids like a rock star and has most recently tried grapes. With THIS handy gadget of course. He's also a big fan of ice in that too. (thanks for the tip Jill!)
• He can "wave" goodbye. He's still working on mastering when to do it, but he's got the finger action down and it's pretty FREAKIN' cute! (I'll have to get video of it)
• Still working on those teeth. Mostly the bottom left one. They are taking FOREVER to come in poor kid.
• He's almost a whopping (I know... not really whopping for his age) 18 lbs! I feel it though. He's a handful!
• Is starting to pull himself up. We had him playing in the laundry basket this weekend and while I was holding the basket he pulled himself up all by himself! I'm not really ready for that though.
• He can sit up all by himself. He still has to master getting to the crawling stance with out bonking his head on the floor, but his noggin is a tough one so he can handle it.
• He enjoys hanging out in the high chair. Especially when me or Ryan are in the kitchen doing something he can watch. He likes to watch us eat our food and then when it's his turn to eat he chomps it as if it was something more than pureed chicken and apples! Too funny.
• I think he's really starting to recognize songs now too. Saturday he was SUPER cuddly with Mommy (that's me) and I have this little lullaby I sing him that my mom sang to us- he was kind of singing along [in an 8 month old fashion]! It was the cutest thing, it just made me smile. What I'm getting at is I think he's starting to realize that he can sing along to a song because he knows it. Make sense?
• He is definitely becoming a daddy's boy. The only person he wants first thing in the morning is his daddy. Although, he only wants me when it's time to go to sleep at night and cuddle with the bottle- so that's pretty rad. But most of the time, he's ticked if his dad is around and he's not holding him. They have fun together.

I tell you what, it's hard being a mom. I love it. I love knowing he's my guy. That he needs us and loves us each in different ways and yet still the same. It's been an exciting and FAST 8 months! Don't get me wrong, it hasn't been peaches n' cream. There have been a lot of tears of frustration and confusion and just plain exhaustion. But it's all so very worth it. On so many levels.