My 8-month-old baby is a big mama's boy. He's been weary of anybody who is not mom or dad. It makes us feel loved but makes it very difficult to share him.
He expresses joy with his entire body. He opens his mouth for big, big smiles, flaps his arms and legs, and squeals. When he sees me, he often starts panting. It's possible he hangs out with puppies too much. We kiss him lots and he's started returning the favor. At least I think he's trying to return the favor. He puts his open wet mouth on our faces and holds it there for a moment or two.
Speaking of his mouth, he is up to 4 teeth--his bottom middle two and the two next to the top middles ones. We're pretty sure he's working on about 4 more.
We've more fully committed to this whole solid food eating business. We kept forgetting for a while. Does that make us bad parents? His favorite is plums. On the train ride back from St. Louis on Sunday we let him try a wee piece of his first cheese--Tillamook cheddar. He approached it with much wonder, as one would expect. He also had his first meat this weekend, chicken with apple compote. We make most of his food but opted to purchase the liquid meat.
He expresses joy with his entire body. He opens his mouth for big, big smiles, flaps his arms and legs, and squeals. When he sees me, he often starts panting. It's possible he hangs out with puppies too much. We kiss him lots and he's started returning the favor. At least I think he's trying to return the favor. He puts his open wet mouth on our faces and holds it there for a moment or two.
Speaking of his mouth, he is up to 4 teeth--his bottom middle two and the two next to the top middles ones. We're pretty sure he's working on about 4 more.
We've more fully committed to this whole solid food eating business. We kept forgetting for a while. Does that make us bad parents? His favorite is plums. On the train ride back from St. Louis on Sunday we let him try a wee piece of his first cheese--Tillamook cheddar. He approached it with much wonder, as one would expect. He also had his first meat this weekend, chicken with apple compote. We make most of his food but opted to purchase the liquid meat.
He has become increasingly mobile. He crawls backwards, can rotate himself 360 degrees, roll, and generally lunge and slither in the direction he wants to go. If he could figure out that he needs to put his knees down, he'd be crawling. Instead he sort of puts his feet and head on the ground, butt in the air and tries to will himself forward. He's finally over standing and become a much bigger fan of sitting than he used to be. Mostly he likes to sit and lean forward and lunge his head forward for face plants.
It's so exciting seeing the person that he is becoming.
