What's going on at 8 months?
- Wearing mostly all 12 month clothes, but they are getting snug. Still put him in some 9 month stuff just cause I don't have enough clothes otherwise! Daycare twice has had issues with his clothes being too tight this last week-- one day he came home with no shorts cause said they were cutting into his belly. The other time he came home in something else and they said they couldn't get his onesie buttoned over his diaper.
- Not crawling or appearing to be any closer to it. He will just pivot around while sitting and reach and lay/roll, etc. to get where he needs....or just whine until one of us helps him out.
- Overall just really happy. Enjoys entertaining himself with exploring his toys- still loves to taste everything. Loves books, but only certain ones- Peek-a-Who and Baby Faces still the faves.
- We went to Canada this last month to visit Dustin's family. Af the last minute we decided Lachlan was not going to do well for a 15+ hour car ride, so I flew with him to Detroit where Dustin picked us up and we drove the remaining 5 hours. That was best decision ever made- he did AWESOME on the plane. Both times he slept a good portion of the trip. The only semi-disaster was that he pooped while I had him in the baby carrier in the security line....and when I went to the bathroom to change him, I noticed it leaked out everywhere and was ALL OVER MY SHIRT! Luckily I ran it under some serious water and was able to get most of it out.
- I discovered that Buy Buy Baby is truly wonderful to work with. We had bought our crappy First Years TruFit Recline carseat from there and been using it this last month, but really really really hated it. They actually let me return the carseat and get a much better one- Britax Marathon! This seat was only about $60 more and SOOOOOOOOO worth it.
- Daycare has been an adventure lately. They have decided to move Lachlan up to the next room and this completely caught us off guard cause was much sooner than expected. In a nutshell they have a lot of new babies starting, so they are taking about 4 kids in the baby room and moving them up. We were not impressed with the teacher in this new room - we had many issues with them overfeeding him and not listening to a general schedule we requested. Long story short, the teacher is leaving and one of his teachers from the old room (who we love) is most likely going to take over teaching in the new room. So let's just hope this all works out! We love our daycare for the fact that they always listen to our concerns and work quickly to fix the situation.
- We bought a sippee cup and will give Water sometimes at dinner. It occupies him to play with the cup for a while, but he doesn't drink much out of it. He has much more fun when I let him drink out of a real cup!
We have finally developed a pretty good routine with both eat and sleep!
- 6:30- Rise and Shine! He just happily plays in his bed waiting for us to come get him. I love going to get him cause he gets a HUGE smile on his face when he sees me.
- 6:30- Takes a 6 oz bottle while we get ready for work...or if is the weekend he'll lay in bed with us and take his bottle.
- 8:30- Oatmeal
- Morning nap for 1.5-2 hours
- 10:30- 6 oz bottle
- 12:00- Fruit or Veggie
- Afternoon nap for 1.5-2 hours
- 2:30- 6 oz bottle
- 5:00- 6 oz bottle (think we will cut this down to more like 3-4 oz)
- 6:15- Fruit or Veggie
- 7:30- Bath
- 8:00- 6 oz bottle (although the last few nights has not been finishing this)
Pics from last month:
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| At the airport! |
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| Used my duck tub as a swimming pool outside! |
