Happy 8 months!

Happy 8 months sweet baby boy! What's my Whitter's up to these days!

****Because I keep forgetting to write this down, I thought I would add it here. Whitten will not take a paci and won't suck his thumb, so his way to soothe himself is to clasp his hands together and suck on his upper arm. He's not actually sucking on his arm....just making the "suckie" face....I think he's just sucking on his tongue, lip?!? Anyway, hard to explain, but it's the cutest thing in the whole world. He'e been doing it for months and I need to get a picture so I will forever remember it!

• Well, son, you've been "ferberized"!!! About a month ago, we decided you needed to get back to sleeping through the night!! You had been waking up around 1 and 4 to eat, and I was thinking that was a little excessive. Even though your brother did the same thing until he was 1, I felt like you could handle not needing to eat in the middle of the night....especially twice! So, one night you woke up at 1 a.m. and we let you cry until 1:45. I had finally given in and was on my way into your room, when all of the sudden....silence!!!!!! You had gone back to sleep! Since then, there has been no looking back!!!!! It's been about 4 weeks, and that's the last time you've woken up in the middle of the night! Sweet thing, you are back to sleeping 12 hours a night. Down at 7, up at 7! Thank you, Whitter Woo!
• You are just now giving up your 3rd nap. Which makes for a long afternoon, but for the most part, you're able to handle it. You go down around 9:30-10 for your first nap and sleep about an hour. Your second nap you go down around 1:00 (same time as your brother....sweeeet) and sleep anywhere from 1-2 hours. Like I said, the afternoon is long because we keep you up until 7, but you're a champ....most days! You used to love naps and never put up a fight! Now, however, you sometimes bring out the boxing gloves! You win most of the time, but usually only for a few more minutes of play time with your brother. Or we go swing in the backyard. After a quick talking to, you will usually go back down!
• You still only take about 4 oz at a time. You are eating 2 jars of stage 2 baby food a day. I've been better about making your food this time around. You love love love avocado and banana mixed together!! You love sweet potatoes, but I am having a hard time finding non-fiberous ones. You hate greens!! The only way to get them down you is to trick you by mixing a little apple sauce in them.
• I'm pretty sure you are going to love table food. You want to take a bite out of everything I put in my mouth! Tonight you sucked on a honey dew and you thought you were in heaven! You even took a teeny tiny bite of my toast the other morning. I'm excited about this....seeing that your big brother still doesn't care anything about eating, it will be nice to have a child that eats anything. Now, don't prove me wrong on this, Whitt!
• You truly think your brother is the funniest person on the face of this earth! I love to listen to y'all talk to each other and giggle so hard that you both have tears rolling down your face! Even better, when you both end up with the hiccups from laughing too hard! Priceless! It's happened on several occasions!
• You're still wearing a size 3 diaper
• Wearing 9-12 month clothes
• I think you are starting to think about crawling. If I put you on all 4's, you will rock for a few seconds and then plop on your belly to "swim"! You are just now starting to scooch backwards!
• Still not even a hint of a tooth!!!!!
• You are starting to have an opinion about things! If I take something away, or if you are not doing what you want to do, you will let me now!
• You got your helmet off a week ago...but we are going in for another check up this week to make sure things are still moving in the right direction!
• You are looking more and more like your daddy every day! Such a handsome little guy! You are going to break some girl's heart with your sweet little dimples someday!

LOVE YOU MY PRECIOUS BABY BOY!!!!!!!

Sportin' a faux hawk!

Slick Back Willy!

And Cooper at 8 months! For a little while I thought they may favor each other. Whoa, was I wrong!!! There is not one single thing that I can find that is similar!! Their eyes, nose, mouth, ears, shape of their face, the build of their body are so incredibly different! However, one thing that is the same....their intensity!! When they play, they play hard and with purpose!!! There is no just sitting around with these boys!!