8 Months Update

So already at 8 months now! And lots to report on over the past few weeks:) First off, Neko finally moved in with Keller and it's been going just fine, thank goodness! It happened after a few nights of me and/or Trav not sleeping well with a noisy baby sleeping in the room with us. Then on top of the general noisiness of his sleep, he had a cold and was snoring and now I really wasn't sleeping so it was move him up to the living room or bite the bullet and stick him in with Keller. And so we did. And now I/we sleep better in our own room though our wake-up time is now a bit earlier (6/6:30) which stinks but is better than being up throughout the night and/or at 4:30, 5:00, 5:30....and so it goes. At first we would run in to remove the "awake" child in the morning so as to not wake the other but this was not always successful. Often the sleeping child would awaken at the sound of the door or both would be "up" upon walking in. So now we've just let child 1 or child 2 whine or cry for a few minutes and are finding that they sometimes will go back to sleep! Nice! So this morning we got to "sleep-in" to 7:15 which is perfectly fine considering what we've been dealing with! It was also so nice to disassemble Neko's "dresser/shoe organizer" hanging on the back of our bedroom door and move him entirely in to Keller's room, now "The Boys' Room"...They are both napping in there now, 2 hours in...so glad it's working out! Now we won't have to move for years to come! Ha! Right!

Neko is now doing the inchworm/army scoot. While on his belly, he uses his little toes to project him forward. It almost looks like he's swimming the butterfly when he on a mission to get something. Very cute. I don't remember Keller really doing that. I remember him sliding backwards but not really forward though he must have. Neko also figured out how to get to sitting up on his own. It kind of threw him off a little at first because when we'd put him down to go to sleep and leave the room, we'd go in to check on him if he kept crying to find that he was sitting up (oh so cutely and oh so sadly) in his crib and once sitting, didn't know how to lay back down. It's such hard work being a baby!

Neko also pushed out a little tooth on the bottom, during his first week in the shared room. I think we got/get some little screaming bouts from it on and off in the night. I must say though it's nice that when the little guy needs some kind of comfort, we can give him his bink as a "special treat"---that almost always makes everything better. He still doesn't use it to sleep with though which to us is ideal. We have it in a pinch or to soothe or hold him over if we're out and about or getting ready to feed him.

Delicious!

He's been talking up a storm with the "babababa's and mamamamama's and the occasional "dah or gah"...He drools a lot:) and has been perfecting his raspberrying, too! He LOVES the tubby tub and will sit and splash for as long as we let him. Him and Keller are good bath buddies:)

He's a good eater, eating oatmeal and mixed grain cereal and a variety of fruits and veggies. Haven't given him any real food bits yet, just the baby foods...oh, and smashed banana. Over the next month we'll be getting him ready to eat more "lumpy" foods! And some "O's" At the moment, he's awake in his crib growling! "Arah...mmmmm....bahbah...mah,mah..." He's cute and delicious and I love him oh so much!