8 Months!

I can't believe Matthew is almost 9 months old already!  Only a few more months until his first birthday?!!  Wow!!

He is still such a cutie pie!  He is always smiling and laughing.  He cracks us up all the time!  He has so much energy, but now that he's more stable with pulling up and cruising, it doesn't give me as much of a heart attack.  :D

Here are his 8 month pics.  He does own some pants, but rarely has any on unless we are going somewhere.  Ha! 



 I had the hardest time getting him to sit still to take a picture!  He was so interested in my camera strap!  And he can crawl faster than most people can walk!  LOL!  Speaking of walking, he's been letting go and standing up a few times here and there without realizing it, so it won't be long!

 He's so funny how he sits sometimes, with his feet behind him.

 This just cracked me up.  It's blurry, I know, but he pulled up on me trying to see what the camera was all about.  He already loves to figure things out!

He's so smart!  He can hold his ba-ba by himself, although most of the time he gets distracted by turning it upside down and making a mess, so we don't encourage it right now.  Ha!  He is learning to feed himself his snacks.  He loves those gerber puffs and cheetoh snacks, cheerios, and banana cookies.  He hasn't been eating his baby food quite as well lately, but is starting to become interested in our food.  I discovered today that he loves avocado! 

He is outgrowing his 12 month clothes and getting into 18 months already.  He still wears size 3 diapers.  He drinks about 6 oz. of formula each time.  He takes a morning nap, afternoon nap, and pre-dinner nap usually.  He won't sleep unless you hold him though.  He sleeps with us at night, but still wakes up 2-3 times.  I'm not sure why because we try to feed him and of course give him his bottle before bedtime.  He knows what "puppy" means and will go to the window to look out at the dogs if I say "puppy".  He knows when I say "sit down" to stop doing what he's doing (which is usually pulling up on the tv or fireplace) and sit back down.  He will give you five if you ask him to.  He knows "num nummies" means baby food.  He knows what "snacks" means.  He likes apple juice.  He knows what "ba ba" means.  And he really loves his "sissies"!  He still will stop whatever he's doing when Joyce Meyer comes on and he'll usually make a squealing noise when he hears her voice.  LOL!  He likes to blow raspberries.  He recently became interested in his pacifiers.  He was never really interested as an infant, but I thought the other day I'd try one during naptime and somehow it got mixed in with his toys and when he found it, he picked it up and popped it into his mouth.  Ha!

He has his two bottom middle teeth and one of his top teeth is barely showing and it looks like the other one is starting to get ready too.  He does well with teething, no fever except once.....he just gets a little cranky and I can usually tell it's from teething if he's chewing on his fist and drooling a lot.

Well, that's about all I can think of right now!  He is so super sweet and precious.  He has definitely given me a run for my money......I think it would've been easier if I had him first when I was younger and had more energy.  Haha!  But, I wouldn't trade him for anything in the world!!!