8 Months!

So my little man is 8 months.  Those months have in some ways flown by but in other ways (long nights) have dragged on and on.  As my children get older, they get marginally better at things like sleeping through the night, but they also learn a lot of new ways of sinning.  Sharing, what is that?

I was trying to sew but these two little stinkers were being super grumpy.  They were banished to their booster seats and forced to watch me sew. 

 Around 7 months, my little man became a bottom scooter and he also learned his first and only word, "Hi!"

At 8 months:

• He is very mobile and can move quite fast. 
• He loves all the things that he is supposed to have better than his own toys. 
• He is stubborn and persistent

He was determined to play with daddy's toys which were in the hallway since daddy was working on the bathroom.  We had to use the chairs as a blockade. 

Going after the cup at all costs. 

 He loves to pull the books off of the bookshelf.  One day, caught him doing it and lightly smacked his hands and told him, "No touch," and pulled him over to his toys.  30 seconds later he was back at it and I repeated the process.  30 seconds later it all went down again.  Finally, Aaron decided to intervene.  He put a stack of pillows in front of the bookshelf hoping to deter our crazy son.  He, however, was having none of it and started pulling all the pillows out.  Aaron decides to make things really hard and puts a kitchen chair in front of the bookshelf.  This makes our son really mad and he tried his best to pull the chair away.

"Playing" in the snow for the first time. 

•  He generally wakes up twice a night.
• He eats some solids but only about 1-2 T a day. 
• Barely needs to nap.  Yesterday, he only took two 20 minute naps for the whole day.  Though to be fair, he has taken a couple of hour long naps in the past week which is very unusual for him. 
• Has already had a couple of hair cuts (his mullet at 6 weeks and a second cut about a month ago) and is almost due for another.