8 Months!

Remember Greyden's 7 month post where I said that someday his monthly pictures and the monthly post timing would actually coincide? Yeah, this isn't that someday. But for good reason! We were up in Michigan for about 10 days over his 8 month birthday. Stay tuned for the post about our annual trip back to our hometown, hillbilly roots. And to read about the trip that almost wasn't...

The last picture was taken about 3 seconds before he dove headfirst off the chair and faceplanted into the grass, effectively ending our photo shoot. Let's just say he wasn't too happy with me after that.

We took him to the doctor the day before we left to get some antibiotics for his (still) clogged tear duct so we know he weighs 17.5 pounds. He still doesn't have teeth, even though he's acted like he's been teething since he was 4 months old. While we were on the trip he pulled himself up on his exersaucer by himself! He was only up for about 1.5 seconds before he was back on his butt, but it's progress. Therefore the first thing we did when we got home was move his crib mattress down a notch. I've already let him faceplant once, there's no way I'm about to let him fall out of his crib too. He's also getting ready to start crawling. Or walking. We're not sure which yet. He's just now getting the hang of the army crawl, but if you hold him by his hands he'll also take steps, albeit wobbly ones. Personally, I'm perfectly happy with him remaining my little immobile, toothless wonder. He's growing up too fast!