Graham - 8 Months Old

Our sweet boy is eight months old!  He is as active as ever, pulling himself up on anything and everything.  His teachers at daycare call us any time he bumps his head (it's a rule they have, in addition to filling out an incident report) and so we hear from them often.  He still army crawling although it has transitioned to up on his knees a bit...still just on elbows.  But boy, is he quick!  He is cruising around all the furniture (hence the falling and head bumping).  As our pediatrician said, "cruisers are bruisers".  

Graham loves to eat finger foods and even though still uses the raking method, he gets a fair amount of food into his mouth rather than the floor.  Aside from the typical puffs, cheerios, and other snacks, we have started giving him "real" finger food.  He has had peas, green beans, pasta, sweet potato, ham, turkey, cheese.  He loves mac & cheese.  Graham has even had Chipotle (black beans and tomatoes).  He has had scrambled eggs too, but we are going to hold off on those for awhile as it gave him a rash.  The same thing happend to Parker when she was little and she outgrew it.  

He has started taking one less bottle a day, all bottles are 6 oz.  Most days he has one in morning, around 6:00 am, then one around 10:00, one around 2:00, and one before bed around 6:45.  He takes two naps a day around those 10:00 and 2:00 marks.

Graham is a happy kid and is so even keel that he had a very bad double ear infection last week and we didn't know!  I took him to the Dr. on a hunch just because he hadn't slept well the previous two nights.  This was after a diagnosis of an ear infection in the left ear a week and a half before.  Although this time, it was both ears and it was as bad as they have seen.  He is still on antibiotics and healing up nicely.

This picture is from the Dr and I have no idea why the coloring is like this.  I promise he was not oxygen-deprived.

He still loves his baths and luckily for his, pees in them much more rarely.

Another big milestone, riding in the grocery cart like a big boy!  Here is first time with Parker and he has been since by himself.

As you can imagine, it gets more and more difficult to pose Graham for monthly photo shoot.  Here is the best we got!