The Allers

Nathan is 8 ½ months and doing so great!  His schedule has been consistent for a few months now.  He eats five times per day.  He eats cereal and a bottle in the morning and at night.  For lunch and dinner he eats veggies, meat, and fruit with a bottle.  After his afternoon nap he also drinks a little bit of bottle as a snack.  He takes two naps: a short one in the morning and a long one in the afternoon.  For about 3 weeks now I have been laying him down in his crib and he’s been going to sleep on his own.  I usually turn the mobile on so he can watch it for a few minutes.  He is such a content and easy baby.  I can take him anywhere and he’s fine with sitting in the stroller or car seat.  He doesn’t complain and is content sitting there and watching things around him.   When I take them to the zoo or omniplex he takes in the scenery and is happy.

He has been sitting up for about a month and army crawls around.  He can get to wherever he wants to go even though he’s not all the way up on his hands and knees.  He is getting stronger each day.  He stands or pulls to standing with the help of our fingers.  When he’s standing and I ask him to dance he will.  We tried to give him some cereal puffs the other day and he kind of gagged on it and tried to take it out of his mouth.  He needs more practice.  He kept spitting his cereal out at me the other night and I told him NO and he thought that was really funny and was laughing hard at me.  Then it became a game.

He loves to jump in the jump-a-roo and he is so intrigued with Noah and all that he does.  He cracks up when Noah talks to him or sings to him.  If he and Noah are both on the floor he’ll try to grab Noah and play with him.  He has two bottom teeth and that’s it so far.

He has his 9 month check-up next week so I’ll have an update on his weight and length.  My sweet little baby will be a year old in a few months.  It’s unbelievable and makes me sad that my baby is growing up so fast.