Good Morning my sweet boy!
Let's see...what has happened since the last time I wrote to you? Well, Grandpa had surgery last week on Tuesday (the day you turned 8 months old - how the heck that happened so fast I will never know). Grandpa is fine. But he was very sore and cranky for most of last week. So far, he has not smoked since being out of the hospital ... and I am hoping that you will be the motivation for him to not start it up again. Time will tell. You were an awesome little baby while all of our schedules went haywire trying to help Grandpa out. Have I mentioned how much I LOVE you for just "rolling with the punches"?? haha
We had a pretty low key weekend. Although you went to your FIRST birthday party (for someone that you are not related to)!!! It was very exciting. It was for Kevin McNally (Gail's grandson) and it was a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse themed party...YOUR FAVORITE! You sat in a high chair right next to Kevin and were SUCH a good boy - all you cared about was how fast I could feed you your cake and ice cream (another first for you by the way!) You loved it - as we knew you would. There really hasn't been anything that we have given you to eat thus far that you haven't liked - EXCEPT for peas - but who can blame you there? So there were about 3 or 4 other little kids at the party and I think you were the youngest by about a month and every other baby was moving around pretty good (crawling, walking etc). You are very mobile - you just refuse to actually crawl and would rather be standing while holding onto something or walking while holding someone's hands! It is only a matter of time though!
Sometime on Sunday of this weekend you started to "teethe". You couldn't be consoled no matter what anyone did. You are biting on your fingers, toys and binkies like it will be the last thing you ever do...and you are constantly chewing on your lower lip and you look like a little old man without any teeth when you do that:-) If we pick you up and try to do something with you that you DO NOT want to do at that moment - you sob. If we put you down - you sob. If you are happily playing with something and the mood strikes you - you start to sob! This is the absolute opposite of what your personality normally is...so there is something going on with you. We assume it is teething since you don't have any teeth yet and you are 8 months and 1 week old...but it could also be a growth spurt or a little cold too. You have yet to really be "sick" and you have had your first runny nose/mild congestion for about a week or so. Who knows. You are our "trial and error" baby:-) haha We will all figure it out together.
We went to Sunday dinner at Uncle Leo's house and you put on an eating display for everyone with your pasta and meatballs...to the point that almost everyone at the table asked us if we fed you on a regular basis! haha It was really funny - but it made us second guess ourselves about whether you really were getting enough to eat...And for this response I will refer to the previous paragraph about "trial and error"!!
Monday was worse than Sunday in the teething department...That's all I have to say about that! More of the same with being cranky. Tuesday morning you woke up very happy though - and didn't want to go back to sleep for Daddy after your morning feeding. (you and Daddy get to spend the week together because he is off for winter break) So Daddy sat you down in your crib so he could go get something from the kitchen and I was putting my makeup on in the bathroom so I peeked in at you and you were STANDING up in the crib!! Soooooo Daddy made me order your new crib as soon as I got to work today. You are getting to be more and more of a little monkey! We love you so much and can't believe how big you are getting SOOOOO fast!
OH! And I almost forgot - your newest thing is to shake your head "no" to everyone and everything! Sometimes you use it in context and sometimes you just decided to start shaking your head "no" for no apparent reason...it is really funny! We are having your first sleepover tonight with Molly and Maddy. It should be so fun - and hopefully Molly doesn't drop you on your head with how many times she will be holding you! I'll let you know how that goes.
That's it for now sweet pea...
I love you more than the smell of the first fresh cut grass of the summer,
Mommy
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