Scout // 8 Months

For the last 7 months, I was actually able to do a post the day Scout had his monthly birthday until  this month...I am 4 days late. I will give myself credit for making it that long.

I think this month had the biggest amount of milestones. He is officially mobile and loving every minute! His brother, not so much! I actually saw Sawyer pulling Scout by the leg the other day prying him off one of his toys.

Here is Sawyer at 8 months. Big differences are that Sawyer had teeth, was attempting to walk, and was saying Mama. Also Scout has now past Sawyer in size, Sawyer was only wearing 6-9 month still:  Sawyer 8 Months

Scout 8 Month stats

weight: 18 lbs 6 oz.  at 7 months he was 17 lbs 8 oz.

height:  27.5 at 7 months he was 27 inches

clothing: 9-12 months. And just 12 month tops. Wears size 2 and 3 shoes.

diapers: Size 3 - same as last month

eating: He is eating a lot more table food and baby foods. he has even tried cut up avocado and bananas, pancakes, animal  crackers, vanilla wafers, and ritz crackers. He is on the same schedule as last month but eating a lot more food and not waking up to nurse in the night.

sleeping: He is doing great at night (knock on wood). He nurses about 7 p.m., and I wake him up to nurse about 6 a.m. The past 2 weeks, he hasn't woken up once in the middle of the night to eat, maybe only a couple times briefly waking up and then falling back to sleep once we give him his pacifier. I really hope it isn't a phase.

teething: Still nothing but has learned to chew food anyway. It still appears something is trying to pop out because of the way he chews and drools.

other updates: He is officially crawling and pulling up on things. He first crawled a week after his 7 month birthday and then about 1 week later he crawled up the stairs at our house, and then a week after that he was pulling up and standing in his crib and all over our house. His school even sent me a video (below) of him completely crawling up the stairs to the slide at school. He proceeding to try to go down the slide too. This boy needs to slow down. Other developments include moving his hands to do the actions with Itsy Bitsy Spider, still only saying Dada and Hi, waving and clapping. He also is trying to do the sign language for "more" when we eat. He also has officially sat at the "big kid" table at school, I am so proud.

Here are a few more photos/video from the month:

Sawyer pretending to share his birthday donuts with his brother

had to move the crib down

no more jars of bananas for this boy

He looks bigger than his big brother

I'm going for it!

Sitting at the big boy table eating Vanilla Wafers

Now Ritz crackers

Sawyer: 8 Months

Happy Little 8 Month Old!

We have a wild man on our hands! We should have guessed this would be the case considering who is father is but it happened quicker than we expected. In the past couple weeks, he not only has developed some bumps & bruises from his daredevil tendencies, he also got his first black eye. He decided to let go and try to walk while he was holding on to a wooden table, lost his balance and hit the side of it. Can someone please tell this kid he is only 8 months!

Sit still? Whatever, lets move 

Stats this month

Weight: 17 lbs. 10 oz.

Eating: still nursing and taking 6-8 oz. bottles at school or when I am gone. Still on the same eating schedule and has tried lots of new foods like chicken, mango, oatmeal, graham crackers, broccoli, lemons, pickles, plums, cherries and even cauliflower.

Sleeping: Sleeping a lot better than last month! He doesn’t wake to eat in the middle of the night. Most nights he goes to bed around 9 p.m. and sleeps until 5:30-6:00 a.m., eats and then takes another morning nap until around 8:30 or 9. He is still a napper. Loves to be covered up at bedtime, his favorite blanket is his super soft Mizzou blanket.

Clothing: Wearing 6-9 month clothes. Most pants are still too big on him so we can still put him in 3-6 month pants. Hasn’t worn any 12-month clothing yet except for socks, those are always too snug.

Diapers: size 3

Showing off all his toys

Playing: Sawyer has masters crawling on all fours and is pretty stinking fast! He also pulls up and stands on everything and is very sturdy. He like s to walk around while holding onto things and is getting very brave by letting go (hence the bruises). We have even tried out his stand up walker and he is getting good at it! He walks all over the house in his sit down walker now too. A new development is trying to climb. Our friends lent us a jumper that he is obsessed with and keeps him self entertained for hours. He also loves to throw!

He wrinkles up his little face right before he laughs, it is adorable!

Just driving my car, no biggie

Talking: His favorite word is “dada” but also says “baba” and “mama”. Sometimes he sounds like he puts together a complete sentence of baby talk. He loves when we bounce him on our knee to hum so he feels the vibration. He also yells & grunts or as we like to call it “monster noises”. He recently learned how to make kissy noises back at us. One of my favorite things he does is yell and talk to Bowie and Faith (our dogs) as he eats his oatmeal in the morning. He also just laughs and giggles randomly now, we love his laugh!

Teething: Still just showing his 2 bottom teeth. When we took him to his pediatrician about 2 weeks ago she said his top 2 are about 1mm from the surface. Still all the signs of teething…drooling, chewing, runny nose, etc. We starting brushing his little teeth too, never too early to practice good dental hygiene.

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