Wow, 8 months have flown by, our little man is getting so big. In the past 3 weeks we have had a lot of exciting changes. First Kai started crawling...yes crawling! He is now all over the house, well as far as Eli and I will let him go. He loves to crawl over to the tile and bang his toys on the tile. He is trying to stand up now, but his little jello legs don't quite let him. He is now jumping like a wild man in his jumper and when we hold him on us. Last week his two front, bottom teeth came in. He did quite well. He was a little grouchy, but not too bad. He would just chew the heck out of any toy he could find that had ridges and rough surfaces. We believe they are still bothering him some because he continues this behavior. Then this week, they moved him to the next class at daycare. He is still in the infant class but it is now the "movers" room.
We did finish up our Baby Rocks and Rolls class at NOVA and are now looking at trying My Gym. We are trying to keep him with his 2 friends, Zane and Trey. The boys have been together since the first class at NOVA and I feel like they are actually starting to recognize one another. On the last day of Baby Rocks and Rolls the kids had a water adventure day and Kai was in heaven. He is going to be a handful this summer with the pool. We'd better get the baby gate put up. Yikes.
He also continues to explore different foods. Over the last month he has started meats. We started with chicken and have now tried tilapia and turkey. He eats everything. So far (knock on wood) he has not refused anything. He definitely still likes fruit best. As a little treat we got some banana flavored puffs, but he is not sure what to think of them. He is getting better with his sippy cup. I can say that now I think he is actually drinking some and not just wearing it. lol
Last week I was out of town for a couple of days and left the boys home alone. They did survive and I think they spent some good time bonding. I could tell that Kai missed me though, because when he woke up in the middle of the night with a dream or something, I went in to check on him and picked him up ( I know I shouldn't have, but I had missed him) and rocked him. He opened his eyes, saw me and grabbed on to my shirt. He held it with a death grip as he fell back asleep. It made my heart melt.
Anyway, we continue to enjoy every moment with Kai and try to take it all in. He is such a happy baby and constantly is laughing and talking. So much is changing that we are afraid we will miss something. Soon we'll be planning his 1st birthday. Woah!
