A picture is worth a thousand words

So here's a few thousand words for you:

Having lunch with Wyatt, his buddy.

A new, cheesy smile... not sure how I feel about that one...

My little Beach Bum!

Angel Face :)

8 months old!

I can NOT believe my little guy is already 8 months old! That is IN SANE to me!

We had a doctor's appointment yesterday for a well visit and everything is looking great.

Milestones for now:

Weight: 10 pounds, 5 ounces 50th percentile (almost 10 pounds exactly from his birth weight!)

Height: 27.5 inches 50th percentile

Head circumference: 46.8 cm...95th percentile!!! (all those brains....)

Sleeping: doing soooooo much better! He takes a morning nap, an afternoon nap, and will sleep through the night, unless something major is happening, like a tooth breaking through or a cold making him cough. You have seen two of the pictures from some good nap times. Here orHere.

Food: we are down to nursing 4 times a day (today I am trying for only 3). We are trying more
solid foods (as momma gets braver...) and he loves everything! He is a huge fan of Whole Wheat Ritz crackers. I think he likes to lick the salt off. I need to find some without the salt! Cal will pretty much try anything and seems to like it. I gave him a some shredded cheese yesterday and he loved picking it up with this fingers and eating away. We tried some of the baby yogurt and he liked the apple flavored, but wasn't a huge fan of the blueberry flavored. I love trying new foods. Thank you to Stephanie for encouraging me to try more solids! Cal and I met a friend for lunch yesterday at Moe's and he ate some of my rice and LOVED it! I think he had a blast picking it up and trying to get it into his mouth. It can't be easy to eat rice with your fingers!

Sippy Cup: Cal continues to drink from his sippy cup (only the one brand that he likes-- he won't use the others yet), but he really really likes to drink water like a big boy out of a Tervis Tumbler. We have a bunch of those and he gets the biggest kick of drinking away with those. He makes the biggest mess you've ever seen, but it's cute to see him drinking water that way...with lots of help from mom, of course...

Crawling: Cal is still not exactly crawling, but he is right on the verge of it. He will get in the position and rock and then just push himself back onto his bum, or try to put his feet flat to stand up. He pulls up on EVERYTHING now. I walked into the bedroom yesterday for bath time and when I left, he was on the floor in his diaper playing with a toy. When I came back in, he had pulled himself into standing position by hanging onto the side of the bed. He was grinning ear to ear when I walked in. That's my little naked boy! He much prefers to be standing than crawling...

Words: Cal loves to talk. Last night for an hour straight, he would not stop saying DaDaDaDa over and over again. Eddie was beaming. It was so sweet. We called both of Eddie's parents so they could hear it too and they were beyond thrilled. He still says up and waves bye bye and says bye bye. He will say Mommmma some, but not often. He loves riding down the road in his new car seat "talking" to ever car and truck that we pass.

Walking: No so much yet. BUT, he does pull up on everything and he would so much rather stand and "cruise" around a sofa than sit down!