8 Months

Jacob is now 16 lbs 10 oz and hasn't grown at all.... Still sitting at 27 1/2" tall. Definitely has slowed down his growing. For the past couple months he's only gained 7 oz each month and has only grown 1/2 inch. But I'm ok with it. I think this is as much as I weighed when I turned a year old. So he's doing better then I was.

This past month Jacob has mastered pulling himself up on everything. And it was kind of funny because he didn't know how to get back down after he pulled himself down so when he was ready to get down he would just start yelling until someone came over and helped him get down. Thankfully it wasn't long before he decided he was tired of either falling off whatever he was holding onto or waiting for someone to come help him so he decided to learn to get down himself. I just love how calculated and careful his thinking process is as he tries to get down. :)

Jacob started getting up in his crib as well. And let me tell you, I was NOT excited about it.... Because before when I would lay Jacob down for a nap he would just lay there contently and eventually fall asleep. Now as soon as I lay him down he stands in his crib and just cries and cries. And I have to go in a couple of times and lay him back down before he'll finally go to sleep. For some reason even after he'd learned to get himself down from standing up it took him a couple weeks to figure out he could do it while standing in his crib as well. It was sure nice when he did though, cuz then I could just let him stand up and cry as long as he wanted then he'd eventually lay back down and go to sleep. To go along with his pulling himself up on everything he also has started to walk along the furniture and even stood by himself without holding onto anything! I really think he's going to be walking within the next month or so! (Or maybe I shouldn't be excited about that... ) It was only for a few seconds but it's a start!

Apparently dad sneezing is pretty funny....

I think Jacob is going to be a soccer lover! At one of our soccer games we were warming up and Scott was holding Jacob and whenever the ball would come to Scott and he would kick it Jacob would just laugh and laugh. He thought it was the funniest thing! It was sooooo cute! I will not complain in the slightest if he is. :) Jacob is also such a little flirter. In church he just flirts with everyone
 behind us. And if you aren't giving him attention he'll tilt his head down so that your forced to look at him. I love it, I think it's the cutest thing! Jacob has also started banging his hands on things while alternating hands. He especially loves doing it on the new high chair we got him! We used to just feed him sitting on the ground and he'd just sit there the whole time. We had to break down and get a high chair when Jacob decided he didn't want to just sit there anymore and it would be more fun to try to climb on you to get the food. The high chair is nice though!

We started feeding Jacob finger food about a month ago but he started figuring out how to actually feed himself just after turning 7 months. So that's been fun. I love watching the concentration it takes for him to get the food in his finger, then up to his mouth without dropping it. I started Jacob on more chucky solids this month and he seems to like them. I don't like them because I can't use the feeder with them. So as of now I'm feeding him fruit for breakfast, then veggies for lunch and dinner, nursing every 2-3 hours.

Crickets dog bones are the best though!

Jacob does not like getting his diaper changed or changing his clothes. As soon as you lay him down he just starts screaming. Its kind of annoying actually.

 He also doesn't like getting out of the tub. I think because then, he has to get a diaper on and put clothes on. But he does love when you hold onto his hands and let him walk/run around with your help! He also learned the new emotion fear this past month. Jacob has been kind of starting to climb up the stairs more. I swear he had no fear before. But then he took a nice trip down my parents full flight of stairs and I think that jogged some fear into him because now he just avoids the stairs altogether. I think it's a good thing because he was starting to get a little out of hand thinking he was invisible. Now he at least takes a little time to consider something before diving into it. We are trying to teach him how to go down them but so far he isn't catching on.

Because Jacob loves cricket so much we have now been forcing Cricket to play with Jacob... notice I say force Cricket because she would never do it on her own. We started this when I noticed one day Jacob crawl over to Crickets toy, pick it up, then wave it around trying to get Cricket to come play tug of war with her like we do with Cricket. It was to cutest thing!

Jacob is still getting up a couple times a night. I swear he'll never sleep through the night... And has gone down to only taking 2 naps a day. He is going to bed anywhere between 8 and 9:30 and getting up between 7 and 8. I liked it more when he'd sleep in till 9 or 10! But at least I got a kid that would sleep in at all. Even if it was only for a few months!