Hudson, you are 8 months old!! Every month I comment on how I can't believe how fast time is flying but this month feels like it flew by in the blink of an eye!
At 8 months, you are such a little sweetheart! We're not sure of how much you weigh but I definitely haven't noticed the fast weight gain that we experienced a few months ago. You've leveled off but your appetite is far from leveling off! You still nurse fairly often, every 2.5-3 hours and you're eating lunch and dinner with the occasional breakfast thrown in there. When you nurse to sleep, you always play with your hair and twirl the hair at the base of your neck around your finger. It amazes me what you can put away at lunch and dinner. Usually 3 containers of baby food (if it's food that I have made, they are 2oz each or Gerber containers are 3.5oz each) as well as some puffs, a mum-mum, bread or bites of what we're having. You enjoy toast cut into strips and even got to taste pancakes for the first time (you were a fan!). Your pincer grasp is still developing so you get frustrated when we put puffs on your tray and much prefer when we feed them to you. This month, you also tried steamed broccoli (and LOVED it!), blueberries, raspberries (I was sure you wouldn't like these due to the sourness but you loved them!) and yogurt. I'm sure you've tried other new foods but I can't remember what they were because we will basically give you tastes of whatever we're having. There are times that you eat more than Kemper and your Dad and I just shake our heads. One thing is for sure, if we are at the table, you expect to be fed. You are not patient and don't eat slowly. Shoveling as fast as possible is your preferred way to dine.
You are holding steady in 9 month clothes but occasionally wear 12 months. You haven't been a fan of socks since the weather has begun to cool off. If you have socks on and we go somewhere in the car, you will immediately pull them off and then suck on them so that when we get to where we're going I have to wrestle with whether or not I should just run inside without socks or put soaking we ones back on you.
You have 1 tooth and we can see the other tooth ready to poke through! Your hands stay in your mouth constantly and you've been fussier when teething than your brother was but you are far from being a miserable teether!
You are my sweet baby boy and love your mama! Your first word was "mama" - YAY! I love hearing that come out of your mouth! All of us are wondering what your second word will be....dada or some version of Kemper? More? Food? It will be exciting to see what comes next!
Sleep...ah sleep. We're doing better but you're still not able to make it completely through the night without a visit from me! We've almost phased out middle of the night feedings...you can go from 7pm until around 5:30am. After a quick snack, you usually go back down until 7am. You take 2 or 3 naps a day, depending on the day and how well your first 2 naps were. Your morning nap is typically the best nap. As soon as we get home from dropping Kemper off at school, you nurse and then go down for about an hour and a half. You've just started to lengthen the mid-day nap (and push it back a bit) to about an hour and a half. If you don't get that much then you'll typically take a 30 minute cat nap while I'm fixing dinner. As long as you have your blanket, paci and your crib, you will go down pretty easily after a few snuggles. You are completely unswaddled now and your preferred way to sleep is on your belly. It took you a few nights to figure out what to do with all the freedom you have in the crib but now you move all over the crib and really get yourself comfortable!
You still adore your brother. If he is in the room, you know where he is and everyone else is chopped liver! He can make you laugh like no other. It warms my heart to hear him playing with you and to hear the belly laughs that only he can get! I hope that even though there is a 4-year age difference that you always adore him and he will always look out for you.
We love you sweet Hudson and can't wait to see how you grow and change over the months and years!
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