8 Months Old Today

Our baby boy is 8 months old today. It has been a crazy month of changes. My fairly "easy life" got much more busy this month as Curtis has become completely mobile. He now crawls all over the place and is a very determined little stinker! For now, we don't allow him on the kitchen tile because he's already konked his head pretty hard on it and we don't allow him near the fireplace. Those are pretty much the first 2 places he tries to go once put on the floor. So my mornings and afternoons are spent chasing after him and trying to keep him entertained away from the things that could hurt him. His other new trick is that he's learned how to pull up to standing. He first did it on the bottom stair, but now does it on all the furniture as well, so we said good bye to our coffee table for a while so that temptation is taken away, but every thing else is fair game. While it is more busy, this is such a fun little stage. His personality is definitely coming out. I am seeing more and more how determined, yet stubborn he is going to be. But also, he is very adventurous, not a whole lot scares him, and he's tough. Aside from a few hard knocks where's he's (understandable)broken down, he doesn't let a whole lot stop him. While I definitely have my hands full, we do have a lot of fun.

Those are pretty much the big things this month. Some little things: he's learning to eat lots of stuff, although still pretty much all purees. We'll start working on little finger foods this month, but for the most part, he loves all the purees, other than green veggies. I'm gonna try some zucchini from Jonathan's garden tonight, and am really hoping he'll eat it, but my guess is, he probably won't. He's also been teething a ton! I think there's atleast 2 or 3 new teeth this month. This last tooth he's cut has been kind of difficult, he's been more fussy than normal so I'm looking forward to it coming through. He went to the nursery at church this past month and loves it. They tell me he's such a happy baby, which makes my heart happy so I can be in the message, worshiping with Isaac and not have to worry about my little one. He has also successfully had a babysitter other than family stay with him and he seems to really love her as well. I'm so thankful for this because it lets me go to the CPC and be a nurse for a while.

We've had several visitors this month, which we always love. I love living in a city where people want to come visit. Our house is always open to people wanting to come spend a few days at the beach :) Ben and Jess came up for a weekend, a long overdue time together. Curtis just loved spending time with them, playing with Jess and Ben definitely intrigued Curtis :) Brenna came up for a night, another long overdue girl's night. It was absolutely wonderful to get to catch up with her, although we stayed up till after midnight and Curtis doesn't really get the memo to let Mama sleep in so we were up about 5:30, I think. But it was worth it to get to hang out with one of my very best friends. Also, from my blog the other day, mom and dad came up for a visit. It's so fun watching Curtis with my parents. They come down the stairs and he crawls to them, they leave the room and he cries, he just loves them so much!

On the family side of things, Isaac has been in a training school this past month, which has come with advantages and disadvantages. He has off every weekend, which has not happened in forever so we are cherishing our Saturday and Sunday's together. It's been so nice to enjoy pancakes and French Press together, to get to go to church together and even spend some days at the beach. The big disadvantage is his long work days. Every now and then he's lucky and gets off by 3:30 or 4, but most days it's later, which makes this difficult with Curtis, but, all in all, it's been pretty good. He has one week left, then back to the ship.

Here's a few pictures of our sweet little man:

He was not being easy this morning to get a good picture and now that he's pretty mobile, I had to be quick so he wouldn't go head first off the chair :) That, I believe, would be a Mama fail 

He loves playing at the door, although he's taken at least one pretty good hit to the head here.

He's discovered the joy of boxes

This picture is for GMama Jess' trip to Peru tomorrow. Last year, while on her trip, she found out Curtis was going to be a Curtis and not Mandolin, so she brought him back this sweet bib :)

Him and Peaches are becoming fast friends, although I'm still hesitant with them being together. Peaches still thinks he's a dog so she gets pretty rambunctious with him, but for the most part, they both enjoy each other