EIGHT months!

Lawson, you are EIGHT months old (and one week!).  This post is super late because on his 8th Monthday, Lawson woke up with a fever.  He had strep :(.  Then, just as the antibiotic was starting to kick in for that, BOTH of his top two teeth started to come in.  He pretty much cried 24-7 from Monday- Thursday. My boy is normally so independent and happy, and he was a clingy screaming mess this week.  It was so sad.  I am so glad those teeth are finally broken through and he is almost back to himself.  I will get an 8 month photo this weekend.  There was no point even trying this week.  :)

Here is some of what you are up to at 8 months:

• You weigh 18.5 pounds, which is the 32nd percentile for your age.
• You wear 6-9 months clothes, but most things are almost too short for you.  We may be moving up a size soon, even though the waist will swallow you!
• You wear a size 3 diaper, and we are venturing into cloth diapering this next week, so there will definitely be a post coming on that!  :)
• You  have FOUR teeth now.  Bottom two and top two.
• You are SO independent. I can't even really call you a baby.  You don't act like a baby.  You don't care to be rocked or held like a baby, and you like to do things for yourself.  You love to be held, but only sitting up like a big boy. :)
• You say "dada", "mama", and we are working on "bite" and "up."  You are getting close with those. 
• You repeat lots of things we say, but you don't connect them to words yet.
• You mimic us like CRAZY!  Mommy has had a terrible cough for almost two weeks now, and you like to mimic her coughing sounds. It's funny...for the first five minutes, ha!
• You are still a great eater.  You don't do so great with solid finger foods, unless it's puffs, but you will pretty much eat anything pureed.
• You are crawling everywhere.  You pull up on ANYTHING and EVERYTHING.  You think it's super cool.  You especially like to crawl to places you aren't supposed to go and then speed crawl away from us when we catch you, ha!  We really love it when you crawl to us and pat our feet or pull up on us to be held.  It's heart melting. 
• I could say you still sleep great, but that's up in the air.  This past week, sleep was for the birds in our house!  You slept ok last night after you started feeling better, so we're hoping you get back to your normal sleep routine now.  We will see...
• You are so happy (when you're not teething, hahah!), and we love seeing your sweet smile every day and hearing you laugh.
• You are so BUSY and practically never still.  When you do get still, we know it's bedtime, ha!

Here are some random pictures, in no particular order...

 Lawson and Mommy at Pawpaw's retirement dinner.

 

Sweet happy boy.

 

Crawling around with your girlfriend, Abby, at daycare

 

Playing with your sister and cousin

 

Breakfast with Daddy :)

 

Going on a walk with Kota

 

Playing dress up in Aunt Cara's closet

Supposed to be napping at daycare, ha!

You have TONS of toys, but your favorite thing to play with is the diaper box. Go figure. :)

 This was one of your worst teething nights.  I had FINALLY gotten you to fall asleep from rocking you.

 Finally feeling better!

 This picture cracks me up because it's just so very "you."  You never go too far without your paci. You couldn't even put it down to eat!  :)

Happy EIGHT months sweet Lawson Ryan!  You are our world, and we can't wait to see what you will learn next!