Bluegrass babies: 8 Month Blog Post

Well, we are now beyond the half year mark and are going to have a toddler before we know it.

While Grayson is not quite toddling around he is definitely getting around. The week after his 7 month birthday he started crawling. I really wasn't so excited about this milestone at first but now I believe it has actually made my life kind of easier.

Except for times like this...

Or times like these when I find him pulling all of the toilet paper from the toilet paper roll.....

Or getting into the dishwasher while we are trying to load it...

We have reached some other milestones in the last couple of months. Grayson got his first two teeth. He now has his bottom teeth...

See the drool on his shirt? I think he is on his way to earning his two top teeth soon. I can actually see his top teeth starting to make their way down.

Schedule/Sleep: Grayson wakes up around 6:30 AM, I nurse him or Brad gives him a bottle if I am out running. He plays for a while, eats breakfast and then is ready for his morning nap around 9:00. I give him his pacifier, sing him a song and lay him in his crib sleepy but awake. He sleeps until about 10:30 then I nurse him, he plays and eats lunch then I nurse him back to sleep around 1:30 in the afternoon. This week because of all of the 4th of July activities he has been napping for 3 full hours. It is AMAZING!! Then he eats dinner, plays and is back to bed around 7:30 or 8:00.

This is Grayson's favorite sleeping position...

On days when he doesn't take a long afternoon nap, it is VERY difficult to keep him awake until 7:30. Here is Grayson at 6:30 after we returned home from our evening walk. I put him in my sling thinking that would keep him awake but nope, he passed out as soon as I started walking....

Grayson still loves his bunny blankie. He shows his excitement by kicking his legs and putting it right to his face when he sees it...

Unfortunately we are now on our 3rd bunny blankie - we lost one on a walk to Jacobson Park and then another one this past week in Louisville while we were shopping at the Summit. Luckily amazon is just a click away and we had a couple of extras on hand.

Eat: Grayson now eats just about anything we eat. I was trying to avoid foods with dairy or eggs until recently I started adding it back into my diet and his and he has had no problems. I gave him a muffin, biscuits, pizza, pasta and he loves them without a trace of allergies. I would say Grayson's favorite foods right now are fruit - he loves peaches, watermelon, pineapple anything really juicy that causes a big mess!

Play: Grayson LOVES his big brother - he squeals and crawls toward Owen every time he walks in the room. Owen is still a little rough with him at times when he is trying to play with him, but when Grayson is upset or crying Owen's way of consoling him is to sing to him or rub his head and call him his "little chubby buddy" or his "baby boo bear". It is pretty sweet except when Owen starts calling me his "chubby little mommy" then I think he has gone too far.