8 Months

As of Saturday Micah is now 8 months old. Crazy! And he is over 17 pounds now. We are working on getting from sitting to floor and floor to sitting. He gets floor to sitting mostly himself wants I get him started. Sitting to floor he can do if you really wants to go after something, i.e. phones, cameras and the like. He occasionally ends up on the floor from sitting by accident. Mostly though I think he doesn't do it as much because he is content sitting and playing, even if I move all toys away to will just play with his hands or feet. We are also working on getting him on his hands and knees. Though I am in no rush to have him crawl.

His interest in toys has not changed too much. He still loves tags/velcro/ribbon, blocks, books, singing, really anything that makes noise. When playing with the blocks if I stack some he will then try to put the one in his hand on top. If he doesn't have a block in his hand he trys to take one from the top. You can see the concentration when he is doing this. He enjoys baths and crys every time he is taken out no matter what distraction we try to use. I am looking forward to the weather being warmer so we can spend more time outside. Micah also makes noise and runs his fingers over his lips at the same time, it is really funny. It is hard to describe what it is like, I will try to get it on video. He will roar back and forth, usually with C. Both of them smiling the whole time and the rest of us trying not to laugh out loud. Oh and he loves sticking his tongue out, almost every 8 month old picture I took he has his tongue out. He continues to kick and kick his feet. He might just skip over walking and go straight to running with how much and how quick he kicks. Also I don't know where he picked this up but he fake coughs. It must have come from some time that we laughed so he keeps doing it. If it funny though he coughs and then looks at me and smiles, of course I smile back which obviously then encourages him to do it more. Oh well.

Micah has been having problems with being constipated so his foods right now are limited to "P" foods (peaches, pears, plums, prunes, peas etc.), and he also eats oatmeal. We are pushing the prune and apple juice to try to help too. Still haven't found the right solution for him yet. Poor guy!