8 months old

Our Little Bud is a month older.  I can hardly believe that he's 2/3 of the way to his first birthday.  He continues to be a super sweet and happy baby.  He's army crawling all over the house, and loves to follow his big sister around.   His top two teeth have been trying to come in for over a month, but they're taking their own sweet time.  I'm hoping they'll both be fully broken through within the next week.  

Here are his 8 month stats:

Weight: 14 lbs., 4 oz

Head Circ.:  43 cm.

Length: 26 3/4 inches

Because he's still slightly underweight the doctor wanted to do some blood work just to make sure everything is okay (she fully expects everything to come back "normal", but felt like we should run a few tests to be on the safe side).  They had to pull 2 vials of blood, and I was so worried that he would have a difficult time with it, but he handled it like a champ.  Big Sister helped to distract him and play with him too.  My mom recently told me that I only weighed 14 pounds at my 15 month check up, so I guess he got the tiny baby genes from me. 

Here are some of his 8 month pictures.

This little rocking chair was John's when he was a baby.  

It's so special that his mom saved so many of his baby things.

This one just might be my favorite!

sibling love :)