Mckinnon: 8 months

What you talking about willis?!

My little guy is EIGHT months old! How are we so close to a year already?!

This month has brought its own set of challenges and milestones!

Little Mack is growing up! At 8 months old he is:

• down to two naps a day. 9-11 and 1-3/3:30. We HAD to drop the last catnap of the day because even a very short 15 minute nap affected bedtime pretty badly. However, he is a BOOGER in the evenings :-( Sometimes. Not every night. Like this night: great!
• eating pretty much every baby food and taking tastes of lots of big people food. He has enjoyed mashed potato's, several fruits and even a bite or two of really soft chicken. He's an eater!
• has upped his dosage of prilosec to 5mL twice a day. Its helped tremendously with sitting
• is a complete independent sitter! he will sit for 45 minutes at a time but still doesnt know how to get INTO or OUT OF a sitting position. When he's ready to be done he just tips over. You'll hear a "thud" and know he's laying down. He never cries about it, though! (unless he falls backwards which is rare and totally unintentional)
• doesnt "get" how you use the jumper in the doorway. He just hangs there and wont jump. Hmmm. He can be a bit of a dud sometimes about stuff :-) lol.
• still loving to play peek a boo! he'll put a bib over his face and kick and kick and kick until you realize he's playing and as soon as you say "where's mack" he'll take the bib off, you'll do the "peek a boo!" and he just laughs and laughs. So cute.
• is doing awesome with getting finger foods into his mouth. He was using a pincer grasp pretty well (b/c he didnt know how to get food out of the palm of his hand) but now that he's learned to get food out of his palm and learned that he can get WAY more in his mouth that way, he's abandoned the pincer grasp :-)
• Is practicing getting on hands and knees in the bed but wont initiate it on the floor yet. If i get him up on his knees he'll stay there several seconds but he wont try it on his own.
• rolls everywhere and turns around and rolls some more. he can go room to room to room!
• has TWO teeth! And i can see the edges of the top FOUR but it'll be a little while before they break through, i think. A few more weeks anyways.
• is REACHING FOR ME! (well, for whoever offers to pick him up, but i care that he does it to me because its scrumptious!)
• is CLAPPING! he reaches his arms waaaay out like he's gonna hug something and then claps. its pretty funny.
• is DANCING!
• is getting CURLS!

In general, I'd say that he's going through a rough phase right now. Theres supposed to be a big wonder week leap (read more about that by clicking HERE) and i can tell. He's cranky and just not all that fun right now. I mean, there are really good days. But there are really bad days, too. I think that some of the crankiness is the difficulty of the transition of dropping that last nap. But some of it is more than that. So, we're soaking up the good times and praying through the bad :-)

In the words of Tracy, "God knew what He was doing when He made Mack cute"... cause he can be a BOOGER! HA!