8 Months Old!

Wow! Jake is 8 months old already! Really? Where has the time gone?

Jake is finally sitting up and playing now. He still gets excited sometimes and flops over, but he's getting better. He still only has the two bottom teeth, and I can't tell that he's working on any others yet. He doesn't so much love the Jumperoo or the Exersaucer any more. I can sometimes get a few minutes out of them, but he's not too crazy about being confined anymore. He still does okay in the doorway jumper, but he now uses it as a swing. He runs (yes, runs) forward in it and lifts his little legs off the ground and swings. He just giggles and giggles when does it. It is too cute!

As for the crawling...if I ever get around to figuring out how to upload a video onto this blog, I'll have to post one. My friend, Lindsay, calls it the "army crawl" and she is exactly right. He crawls all over the houses without ever getting his tummy up off of the floor! It is too funny! He has discovered the door stoppers that make noise, and loves to play with them. What is it about those things that babies just love? I've never known one who didn't like to see how much noise they could make with a door stopper.

He is now officially holding his own bottle, and jabbering all the time. He is quite the little vocalist. Janice says he's going to be a singer. He's also quite the little piggy. He LOVES his food. He's getting two stage 2 food jars for lunch and dinner, and a stage 2 and cereal for breakfast. Plus he's still getting around 24-26 oz of formula a day. I got on the scale with him yesterday, and he was 21.5 pounds! He wore an outfit yesterday that Mitch wore when he was around 14-17 months!

He is finally out of the infant carrier. I just went yesterday and got Mitch a new car seat and moved Mitch's old one over for Jake. He didn't seem to be too crazy about his new ride at first, but he got used to it pretty quickly. I hope he likes it as much as Mitch has!

Oh, and last but not least, he has stared giving me kisses. Yep, the sloppy little open mouth baby kisses! Who ever would have thought being slobbered on would be so wonderful?