8 months old!!!

Tyler, your mommy is really slacking...you were 8 months old on September 28th!!!!!  I don't know why, but the sound of 8 months makes me feel like you are so big now!  Maybe because it seems like you move up in the foods you can eat?  Maybe because you now have your first two teeth?!  Maybe because you seem to try to take a step every so often?  Time is going by way too fast!  I was reading another mother's blog and she referred to everything being only a season.  This made me sad, because I know you being a baby is only a season that I want to press the pause button!  I know we have so many exciting things to look forward to with you, but I want to pause my time with you right now. 

New things for you this month: 2 bottom teeth, standing on your own for longer periods, constantly "talking" especially what sounds like da da, moving into mostly 6-12 month clothes, weighing almost 18 pounds, picking up and grasping small pieces and feeding yourself.

You unfortunately have had a rough past couple of weeks.  You have had some congestion due to allergies I believe.  I had you at the doctor just to check to make sure it was not an ear infection, because you had been waking up through the night, all night long for several nights...not like you.  You were running a low grade fever, and had a fever blister pop up...poor girl!  Good news was you did not have an ear infection, but blisters on your mouth, tongue, and throat...which was probably the explanation of you waking in pain, along with your first two teeth popping through.  I believe you are healing and have been a much happier girl. 

Fun things we have been up to: traveling to Uncle Braedon's football games, you do so well and love the attention, celebrating your cousins, Alex and Ethan's first birthday.  You did so well there, didn't try to steal their presents or anything!  This was right around the time when I thought you started not feeling good, but you handled the long trip over to their house great!  We also had some great news: you will be having a new cousin next year, as Mommy's cousin Beth is going to have a baby! 

You continue to eat pretty well: 7 oz. when you wake up, 6tbsp cereal and fruit w/ 4 oz. bottle, 6 tbsp veggies w/ 4 oz bottle the next 2 feedings, and a 7 oz. bottle before bed.  Just recently, we have been giving you  a few tablespoons of cereal with your bedtime bottle to help fill you up through the night since you had been waking up lately.  We can start giving you meats, but just haven't yet.  You are still on breast milk, but that supply is quickly being depleted, so hopefully you transition from it well!  You have slept mostly through the night, except for when you have recently not felt well.  You also have seemed to be taking a morning nap, an afternoon nap, and want to nap in the evening.  I really try to avoid that evening nap, because then you are quite the night owl. 

Mommy and Daddy finally got a new laptop, so hopefully we will be better about updating recent photos of you!  We are looking forward to all the new things we have to experience with you in the coming months.  This weekend we are looking forward to going to the pumpkin patch with your cousins to pick out your pumpkin for you jack-o-lantern.  You continue to be such a sweet girl.  You make us laugh all the time.  We just can't get enough of you!  We love you with all of our hearts sweet Tyler!  You fill our lives with so much joy!  God has truly blessed us!