As of yesterday, Carter is now 8 months old!!! He is getting SOOOO big too.....he weighs nearly 21 pounds and is about 28 1/2 inches long...WOW! He's outgrowing everything it seems. Some new things he's started doing in the last month are:
-sitting up on his own
-said his first word, "Mama"
-crawling (well sort of...more of a half drag/half crawl, but he gets wherever he wants to go this way)
-clapping his hands
-waving bye-bye (he's only done this a few times, but we're working on it!)
-lots of 'vocalizing' I like to call it ;) Squeals and high pitched babbling *cute*
-definately into his toys more...he'll sit in the floor and turn a block over and over in his hands. He loves his stacking rings....he'll take each one off (now he needs to learn to put them back on!)
As always, he's such a joy to have around....he's a very good baby. He did experience his first real sickness this past month: a cold and cough followed by a double ear infection. He had it for about 2 weeks, and I thought I was going to lose my mind! He's still a little stuffy, but over the worst of it for sure. Thankfully, he's back to sleeping through the night and being happy during the day.....and even when he was sick, out of the 2 weeks, there was only about 2 days he was even fussy during the day....so no matter how he's feeling, he's just an all around happy baby :)
-sitting up on his own
-said his first word, "Mama"
-crawling (well sort of...more of a half drag/half crawl, but he gets wherever he wants to go this way)
-clapping his hands
-waving bye-bye (he's only done this a few times, but we're working on it!)
-lots of 'vocalizing' I like to call it ;) Squeals and high pitched babbling *cute*
-definately into his toys more...he'll sit in the floor and turn a block over and over in his hands. He loves his stacking rings....he'll take each one off (now he needs to learn to put them back on!)
As always, he's such a joy to have around....he's a very good baby. He did experience his first real sickness this past month: a cold and cough followed by a double ear infection. He had it for about 2 weeks, and I thought I was going to lose my mind! He's still a little stuffy, but over the worst of it for sure. Thankfully, he's back to sleeping through the night and being happy during the day.....and even when he was sick, out of the 2 weeks, there was only about 2 days he was even fussy during the day....so no matter how he's feeling, he's just an all around happy baby :)
