8 months

Hunter is now 8 months old!  He didn't have a well baby check this month but I tried to weigh him and measure him at home and from what I can figure he is 17.5 lbs and 27 inches and is finally filling out his 3-6 month size clothes.  He is so much fun right now.  Over the past few days he is starting to get really good at picking up puffs and putting them into his mouth.  Maggie loves that he is feeding himself now as she probably eats about as many puffs as he does.  He is also showing some signs of crawling and will get up on all fours and rock back and forth.  He also can move backwards while he is up like this or on the wood floor.  Here is some video of him scooting across the floor today:

Through the night!!!!

Couldn't pass up blogging this!  Hunter slept through the night (my definition of) for the very first time last night!  He slept from 7:00pm to 7:40am!  He woke up briefly a couple of times but was able to put himself back to sleep.  Of course, I still woke up around 4:00 worried that he had not woken us up and couldn't fall back asleep for an hour because I was sure he was going to wake up any second... :)  Who knows, we might have a budding good sleeper on our hands.  Now we just have to work on those naps!!

Another tooth!

Hunter's 2nd tooth has officially poked through today. It has made for a rough few nights from sleep perspective but he has been quite the trooper with me dragging him out for Christmas shopping, etc. He loves to shop and just take in everything around him and cracks up at anyone that talks to or even looks at him. It's so cute.

Here is a pic of his first tooth before the 2nd one started to come in:

He's not a big fan of showing off his teeth so I've got to catch him open mouth to get a good pic. Every time I try to look at them he pushes my finger out with his tongue.

I'm getting very excited for his first Christmas. I know it will get more exciting every year as I start to see Christmas through his eyes and remember what it was like to anticipate Christmas as a child.

Here is another recent pic that I just thought was cute. Notice he only has once sock on, as he does in most of our recent pictures...that is because he loves to take his socks off and put them in his mouth. Still not crawling but he's definitely figured out how to get where he wants to go by rolling!

Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving this year we took Hunter and Andrew up to see AJ's side of the family in New Jersey. It was a fairly quick trip - we were only there for 3 nights - but we packed a lot of fun into those days! We had a direct flight, which was nice, but it was long and Hunter didn't sleep very well during either flight. I don't know if it is just a fluke or if it is what we are in for from now on with him getting older. AJ's mom made a delicious Thanksgiving meal and it was the first time that I have met several of AJ's relatives so it was nice to be able to meet everyone. Here is Hunter meeting his Nana for the first time:

We went to Breakfast with Santa put on by the Junior League before we left for NJ. It was a little disappointing, to be honest. The breakfast wasn't anything to write home about although they did have some crafts that Hunter could have enjoyed if he was a little older. Hunter did great meeting Santa for the first time, however. He sat on Santa's lap for at least a solid minute just staring up and him before he decided Santa's beard needed a good tug! We finally got him to look at the camera and I thought the pic turned out great!

First Tooth!

Monday I noticed a little something starting to come to the surface on Hunter's bottom gum and over the past couple of days it has gotten closer and closer to poking through. Today you can definitely feel the top of it and it is sharp! It is also easily visible, that is, when he will let you put your fingers in his mouth to try to see it..most of the time he spits my finger out. :) He's handled teething pretty well, although you can tell that it is bothering him during the night. He's back to waking up every 2-3 hours but hopefully that will pass once his tooth is fully in. I did get a pic of him with an open mouth last night and you can just barely see it if the pic is zoomed in on his mouth. Just in time for Thanksgiving dinner!

He loves his butternut squash. I mixed it with apples one day and he loved that as well. We've started the Gerber puffs, which are very similar to Cheerios except that they melt in your mouth. At first he wasn't too sure of them but now he can't get enough. He's trying to pick them up on his own but they're too small for his little fingers to grasp just yet. I also picked up some Baby Mum-Mum's yesterday and he's doing great feeding himself with those! These are like rice teether biscuits. Here is some video from lunch today.

7 months!

Hunter turned 7 months old on the 12th - it is so hard to believe! He didn't have a well baby check this month, but I tried to measure and weigh him myself and from what I can tell he is in between 16.5 and 17 lbs and is about 25 1/4 inches long. Such a big boy!

Since about 6 months he has gone from getting up every 2-3 hours to about twice a night. Last night he slept from 8pm-4am! Naptime is pretty sporadic but we've been getting at least one good one in there per day recently.

We ran out of organic fruits and veggies that we could get on this side of town so we made a trip down to Whole Foods this week. His new vegetable is butternut squash and he seems to really like it. He loves to drink water from a regular cup or a sippy cup and is doing pretty well at holding his sippy cup on his own. He is very interested in whatever you have or what people around him are doing and loves to grab and touch new things. He still loves to jump in his Baby Einstein jumper and roll around on the floor and Mimi discovered he is ticklish on his feet. :)

Family Vaca

Last week Hunter took his 4th plane ride to Naples, FL, where we vacationed with Mimi, Papa, Aunt Whitney and Uncle Brian. Brian's parents own a home in Naples and they were generous enough to let us stay there and we had a such a good time. Hunter loved their pool. He splashed all around and loved being in the water. Here are some pics of our stay -

Hunter practicing his free throw:

The girls at the pier:

Family pic:

Whitney was playing with him one morning and I finally got his baby laugh on video. I love it!