8 Months!!!!

 

This 8 month photo is absolutely terrible but getting him to stay still (or really I was rushing to fit it in, when he was cranky) is hard! So this will have to do. He kinda looks like a different kid in half of them... but the pictures he looks the best in is what he looks like in real life lol. 

He is just learning to move all around and discover all types of things. He is starting to notice more things around... not just baby tunnel vision... he still loves doing raspberries (aka the spits) at inappropriate times, when he should be sleeping!!!! 

His smile is just the BIGGEST and makes me laugh!!!  

                       He is still a very good shopping buddy, and  all around very good boy.

Sorry (self) and whoever else may read this... this is very lame... but this weekend was long (new car weekend!!!!) we got rid of the car we brought this gorgeous boy home in... just to get a newer, larger one and today he went to visit grandmom's house. So it's time for these parents to relax...


Soon we'll be at 9 months! September 16th will be here before we know it.

Catching up

Finally getting around to just posting some catch up pictures.... I need to use the camera more. Having your phone so close makes it hard to use an actual camera (considering I don't know how to work ours other then point and shoot) so all the super cute ones are on my phone! Should I figure out how to use instagram? Sure, but I have bigger priorities lately. When I get caught up on those... instagram here I come!!!!
But here's some stuff the baby is up to these days....

You know as parents, when you are actually all showered and dressed you want to take photos... Holy god all the ones we took for this wedding were so so so bad. It's a sad reminder you're just not as good looking as you think.... But for documentation purposes... This was may so he was a little over 5 months.

 A sweet, tired baby. We actually gave him benadryl for the first time the night before this... because the shore house gave him a weird rash... he was so tired all day the next day.

 Just a cute baby, on the beach.

 We scoot now... these are from this month. So we skipped some time in between (read the top- cell phone pics) he is a scooter....

 We got rid of our carpets last month, so poor kid has a blister on his foot from using it to push himself all over the new laminate! I feel like a terrible mom.....

 Oh this was from July! He is highly enjoying the mesh feeders. We use strawberries, and bananas, and grapes. He seems to like the grapes the best strangely enough....

 Babies love balloons... also from July.

 We are trying to use his high chair a little more... he still doesn't like to be squashed at the tummy. So the chair is loungin' realllll far back... so after he eats I give him these (potential choking hazards) ice things that you freeze and use for keeping things cold (do they have a name!?) and he chews on them. He keeps him entertained for ten minutes... so I'll take it...

 He's cute....

 I love love love this picture. I put him in the chair the proper way (but not strapped in) and he moved himself like this!!!!!!!!! The air conditioning broke for a week... so he was hot and trying to get comfy I guess lol...

 Eating baby mum-mums like a big boy! (august)

 Just a lovely close up of the aftermath....

 This might be my favorite picture of him ever... he looks gorgeous. Love this kid.... look at the little toes in the background.

As I mentioned, we had no air FOR A WEEK. It was torture. I can survive without air... we grew up with window units... and slept without it in our rooms and we surely survived. But atleast we had windows. Here, not so much. We only have 3 downstairs and one is broken. It was so hot. I am rather proud of myself, looking back, that I survived with a 7 month old and no air. We were very sticky, and whiney. Both of us lol. And I didn't even leave the house all that much because I was TOO HOT to pack us up. Ridiculous right? Either way... go me!


I will be back later this week for the 8 month picture :) :)

Mom Brain.

I can not remember my social security number. No lie.
Where did my brain go!?!?!?!?

That's all.
Goodnight

I hope the Internet never goes away....

I hope this blog will always be around because I am constantly telling myself to write down the memories.
To keep a journal, or make a scrapbook, (this goes along with my last post long ago) that you kinda are who you are... at least me... I want to do things differently for our baby... but scrapbooking has never been my thing. I doubt it will start now.
So with a blog, youre like well it's been so long whats the point now. But tonight, I felt it was time. Who knows when I'll get back to it.
Tonight, I went to a concert with Daddy and his sister and brother... I saw a guy there who was in a wheelchair and (as usual) my eyes filled up with tears. I am so lucky.  I am so so so so so so so so so lucky to have a healthy, perfect baby. Everyday he gets smarter and more aware. He crawls now, his own scoot crawl... not on all fours. but he gets around fast. He is eating baby mum-mums and anything we eat when we go out together I will give him some. He sits in the cart at target... he falls over, but still. It's helping him get stronger. He chases after the cats in the walker and wants to touch the air vents and anything else he shouldn't be.
Oh and that smile. He has TWO TEETH! He got them at about 7 months.. he is almost 8 now. He didn't cry much... just a little whiney for a day or two... but he still just lights up all the time when he see's us... or anyone really. Everyone tells us how gorgeous he is... and how beautiful his eyes are. It's ironic considering the whole time I was pregnant, i just kept saying... this kid better be cute... and he is the cutest.
He loves to grab our hair, and open his mouth wide and try to attack our faces. It sounds ridiculous but it's adorable. Painful but adorable. You want to be tough and say no but you can't help yourself but let him. 

I am constantly thanking life for giving us such a wonderful baby. Even if he's fussy, or whining up a storm, or getting mad because his spoon food has ended... he loves us... and we love him. I hope his mostly loving demeanor stays over the course of the next few years... I hope I can teach him to be patient... even when his food is done. I hope he knows how much we love him... he gets a million kisses and "i love yous" a day. I hope he knows he will always have the most perfect place in my heart... my first baby boy...