8 Months!

Blake is 8 months old today! He has changed so much in the last month. He has 4 new teeth with more still coming. He loves to sit and reach for things. He has been working on crawling for the past week or so. He can army crawl and he gets up on his hands and knees a lot, he still chooses to roll a lot of places though. He loves to chew on EVERYTHING! Especially furniture, dirty tables and highchairs at restaurants, people's shoes or feet so mostly gross things. Which means he is already starting to learn the word no. He really enjoys playing with his toys now and will do so by himself which I think is a major accomplishment, he is not one for alone play. He loves his 3 friends at work and enjoys playing with them. He loves to be outside and he loves to play with George or any other dogs we come across. He is starting to try and ween himself from formula and loves to eat anything we give him that he can feed himself. He has gotten to be a lot of fun and both Ryan and I are having fun watching him grow and change.

Unfortunately he can't sleep that great and cries a lot when he is put down. It has been very hard for me to deal with but we keep trying and hopefully sleeping will continue to improve.

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I have been trying to think of something interesting to write about for almost two weeks now. Still haven't thought of anything... All we have been doing is trying to keep the house together, going to work, and taking care of baby. He has been getting more and more mobile every day. Last week he started crawling and will do it now and again. He is starting to army crawl more regularly but most of the time he just rolls to get what he wants or sits and cries until someone gets it for him. He has also started showing an interest in pulling himself up on furniture but usually he doesn't get far because he would rather chew on whatever he is by. He also started clapping and loves to do it, but apparently only for me. If anyone else tries to get him to he looks at them like they are crazy. Too bad though its pretty cute when he does it.

We also have moved him up to stage 3 foods. I know that doesn't mean much but I try to thicken his food and he gets lots of finger foods to try. He is doing better getting things in his mouth and really enjoys eating different foods. He is also apparently trying to ween himself off the bottle. He refuses to eat more then 4 oz most of the time and is phasing he is middle of the night feeding out. This has been good because then no one (well Ryan) has to get up with him and the less he eats the less he throws up, but he isn't getting the recommended amount of formula. I am trying not to be too concerned right now because he eats his solids well but it would be nice if he would eat a bit more.

Brat Fest

4 Teeth + A Cold = 1 Crabby Baby

Teeth

Blake has been teething since March when he got his first tooth (well probably longer...). He now has at least two teeth coming out and possibly two more, all in the top gums. He is a total mess. His gums are so swollen that nothing seems to make him happy. I sure hope if there is four of them they hurry up and all get out because all 4 of us need some sleep, and maybe a break from the drool too.

Baby Food

Last Monday I had to go buy baby food because we were almost out. It can be hard to find organic baby food sometimes and ever since we moved away from or beloved Super Target it's taken a lot more of an effort then it did before. So after some formula, diapers and a present for Blake because of his surgery I had spent close to $40 on baby food. $40!? I was a little annoyed it's only mashed up food, so I thought I will make my own. Of course I already have a book about it so I started reading up on it. Even though everyone says its really easy it sure looks like a lot of work. But I think I am going to try to make at least some of his food. I think it might be hard to get in the variety that he is able to get with the already made baby food. Like eating mango's for instance. I was reading about someone else's attempts at baby food and it was suggested to add avocado with banana, which I would have never thought of, but we may try that this weekend. I'd really like for Blake to eat avocado because it has lots of good things in it.

He has also been eating a lot of solid table foods. He LOVES rice, and is getting better at trying to grab food and get it in his mouth. We went to a African restaurant on Friday evening and he was eating some of their bread and potatoes, he couldn't get enough. The only problem with table foods is he would much rather have something from my plate then anything I put in front of him. But he also tried Cheerios today and was having more success at getting that into his mouth.

So, I have probably lost anyone who was reading this since I haven't been making any posts, but now that school is just about done I hope to keep up with this. Blake is having surgery tomorrow to correct his hypospadia (please don't google, I saw some pictures I really didn't need to see when I did). Basically he is getting circumcised and straightened out. It should go well and it's an outpatient procedure but I am not looking forward to taking him into the operating room. It is going to be hard but thankfully he won't remember anything. Unfortunately we have to be there at 6:15 but hopefully everything is going well and we will be done by the afternoon. We will have to find him a new pug toy to add to his collection...or is that Ryan's collection?




I seem to have passed (or will pass) all of my classes this semester. I am debating if I want to continue in school or not. I feel like I missed a lot with Blake, other family things and with the kids I work with. The only thing keeping me in school is that I have no idea what I will do if I don't finish. Ryan is more than likely transferring schools, so if he gets in this could be a very good thing.

As for my goals this year, I don't even remember what they were and am way off track. I am hoping to use this next weekend to re-organize myself and start a plan for the rest of 2010. Our family needs to make some changes and now we have the time to do it.