popsicles

Owen shared his popsicle with Andy tonight and he LOVED it! He would make awful faces but then always want more!

9 month photo with the bear

Isn't he so frickin' cute?!?!??!!!

My beautiful boy

Tooth #3!

Andy has a third tooth! We only saw it today. But it looks like it has been there for a few days already. And he is a drool monster today, so cranky, and has a major runny, nose, so maybe the other top tooth is coming through. The one he has already is the top left (from his point of view, top right if you are looking at him).

8.5 month update... kinda...

We all went to the Jordan’s house last night and Andy did great. He ate well, had fun chasing a remote control car around, went to sleep in the play pen well, and even transferred to the car and then to bed well when we went home. And then he slept until 5:30, ha d a bottle, went back to bed, and slept until 8am.

And now Andy’s schedule has changed once again! He is usually up at 7:30, goes for a nap at 10 and then again at 2pm, and usually one more around 6, with bedtime at 8:30 or 9pm. But I want to try and take out the 6pm nap and get him just to go to bed at 7pm. We’ll see how that goes over tonight.

But he is eating great – 3 bottles a day – first thing in the morning, after his afternoon nap, and right before bed. And he eats nice big meals (2-2.5 jars of food) at breakfast lunch and dinner with snacks throughout the day (toast, cheerio’s, yogurt, Mum Mum’s, etc.). And he loves to eat – he mow’s down his food!

And he is such a happy baby these days too. It has been wonderful to have such a happy boy lately, I hope this lasts a while.

Muscle man!

At Moms house today Andy pulled himself up on the dining room table – he did like chin up, where he was holding onto the table and lifted his feet right off the floor, and pulled his face up to the level of the table. Man is he strong!

New foods and new schedule - good, good, and more good!

Andy had a lot of new foods today – plain yogurt (he makes awful faces but always wants more), toast (with and without butter – he ate almost a whole piece twice today!), and veggie Mum Mum’s (the new foods in them are spinach and pumpkin).

Andy has had a good schedule for the last few days – I hope it lasts! What he has been doing is waking up at 7:30, having a bottle and then breakfast, then napping at 9:20-9:30 until 11 or so, having lunch, napping again at 1pm, having another bottle at 3, having a snack, and then dinner, either having a short nap before or after dinner, and then going to bed around 8:30. It’s a good schedule – I like it!

Speedy little boy!

Andy is soooooooooo quick with his crawling and cruising! He can pull himself up on anything (and I mean anything), and he can get across the room and up the 4 stairs from the play room to the kitchen in about 3 seconds. I have to watch him all the time – every second!

More pictures of Andy cruising!

Good times and bad

Andy needed his soother and rocking twice again last night. I hate how he is now dependant on us rocking him back to sleep at night. Every since he got used to pulling himself to a standing position at night it is harder and harder (if not impossible) for me to just lie him back down. He just screams if I do that so then I have to pick him up and rock him.

Andy was happy in his highchair for 30-45 minutes eating Cherrios this afternoon while I cleaned the kitchen and made diner. It is the first time in a loooooooong time that he has been content, and restrained, for that long. It was nice. It felt normal! ☺

Andy is crawling up stairs! Agh!

Andy crawled up the stairs today – all by himself!!!!! Aggghhhhhhhh! First he went up the 4 stairs from the playroom to the kitchen, and then he went up 7 of the stairs to upstairs! And he didn’t fall backwards, or even almost fall or anything. He was so quick too! Oh my word! He did one stair about a week ago, but Gabe picked him up right away. This time I just sat behind him and held my hands out just in case, but I let him climb the steps.

New foods!

New food: applesauce with apricots. Andy like it. He likes fruit more than veggies now. It was always the other way around. He doesn’t like peas anymore, and he doesn’t care for the meals with chicken or beef in them. He still loves corn, green beans, sweet potatoes, and turkey. But now he really likes applesauce, pears (not by themselves though), raspberries, blueberries, pineapple, and apricots as well!

Andy and Matthew - best friends and wagon buddies!

Still not sleeping through the night on a regular basis

Andy slept through the night! He has needed a soother and rocking once a night for the last few nights. Once isn’t bad, but I would sure like him to start sleeping through all the time now! Please?! ☺

Sheesh!

OK, Andy is already better at cruising. He can now walk around by holding onto furniture, and he can go from one piece of furniture to another as long as they are close enough together. Sheesh! He is going to be walking on his own so soon! And he is only 8 months old!

My baby is getting bigger!

I heard Andy coughing at 6:30 and then it got eerily silent, so I quietly opened his door, but he saw me. I went back to bed, but he was calling out for over 5 minutes, so I went back in to get him. I opened the door and found Andy standing up in his crib and shouting. It was as if to say “Hey! I’m awake! Come get me Mama!” He is so cute!

And man Andy wants to walk! He can pull himself up on anything – furniture or people (that happened in the last week or so), and now he does it ALL the time. And he tries to go from one object to another. That and the fact that he can walk good while holding your fingers (I mean REALLY good), makes us think that he’ll really be walking pretty soon.

Another photo shoot!

He may not sit still for me for very long, but Andy is always happy to pose for me for a little while!

22lbs already!

Gabe took Owen to Church this morning, and I stayed home with Andy. We had a really fun time playing. He is such a chub-chub these days! I want to weigh him again. I think he gained 2 pounds in the last week!

Owen woke Andy up this morning by going into his room, throwing all Andy’s stuffed animals into the crib with him and then yelling “Don’t you have a lot of animals in your bed, Andy?” and laughing and playing. Gabe and I were in bed sighing at it all. Owen did the same thing yesterday, but Andy had been crying and yelling for a little while. So when Owen went in, Andy was happy, and Gabe and I lied in bed and just listened to them play and laugh. But today, Owen went in without Andy even being awake. It’s a sweet though, but we might have been able to get a bit more sleep out of him. Oh well.

I weighed Andy – he is 22.2lbs with clothes on! He gained so much in the last few days!