So Much Fun!!!

Jonah is just sooooooooo much fun at the stage he is in right now. He is just so cute and he makes me laugh so much every day!! He just scoots around everywhere (still no crawling), but he manages to get all over the living room. I turn my back for one minute and he's across the room! Something new that I just realized today he is doing is when he's sitting, he scoots around to face a different direction. I had him in the kitchen with me earlier tonight when I was getting dinner ready. He was playing with a big plastic spoon that he loves, and I turned around and he was facing the fridge (and his back had previously been to the fridge). I didn't even know he could do that! Another time today when he did that was when his back was to the drawers in the kitchen and I went to get something from the pantry. I came back to where he was sitting playing with his spoon and he was facing the drawers and opening one of them! I guess this means it is now time to really childproof our house. We are moving in a month so I'm sure we will really do it once we move (hopefully nothing bad happens before then!) All day today when we were playing he was talking to himself. He will hold toys right up to his face and chew on them and when he's not chewing it's like he's talking to the toys...TOO FUNNY!!:)

The other fun thing is how much he loves the water!! Over the past weekend we took him in my parents pool for the first time. At first glance of the water (he hadn't even been in it yet), he started crying (I don't know what that was all about). Then once he got in and I was holding him in the water, he started liking it. My parents have a blow up boat you can lay in while in the water and we put him in that and he loved it! After being in for awhile we got him out and tried him in the baby pool. He LOVED that!! He was in there for 45 minutes straight and we had to take him out because we were getting ready to go out to lunch. We didn't have too much water in it so I thought I would try him on his tummy and see what he would do (I didn't expect him to like it). He got a smile on his face immediately and stayed that way for awhile. He kind of pushed himself around to move about while on his stomach. He even put the side of his face in the water and liked it! The funniest thing was when my mom was splashing water in his face and he would make a really funny face and then smile and she would do it over and over again. He also went in a little bigger kiddie pool yesterday at my friend Sally's house. She has a little tykes slide going into the pool for her 2 1/2 year old son to play on. Jonah and I were just sitting at the end of the pool and Cameron would slide in and splash us and Jonah smiled every time! I hope he will always like the water!

8 Months!!!

This past month FLEW by!! Jonah is just too much fun! The biggest change in the past month is with his eating habits. He is eating so much more solid food. We have found a few things he just loves and some things he wants nothing to do with. We decided to skip most "regular" baby food (the jarred stuff) and move right to real table food. I really love this method and I would highly recommend it to others! It seems Jonah's favorite big people food is applesauce. He loved it right away and continues to love it. Other things he has really liked are carrots, sweet potatoes, and bananas and most recently cantaloupe, cooked apples, and he LOVED mango! He also loves baby treats such as Gerber puffs, yogurt melts, and yogurt nibblers, and also veggie sticks (crunchy, kind of like chips). A few things he has tried multiple times but wanted nothing to do with were green beans, avocado, white potatoes, and broccoli. It is so much fun being able to feed him different things and see what he likes and dislikes. I am hoping he will come to like more veggies than he has started out liking:)

Still no crawling...I keep waiting for it to happen but he's just not quite ready yet and that's completely fine! It will happen when he's ready:) He still pushes himself backwards (almost always) when on his tummy and he gets around a lot by that and rolling every which way. He sits up even better now that another month has passed which is so nice! It's nice to be able to have him sitting up when he's outside so he can look around and see the world. Also, we have started putting him in his stroller now without being in the infant seat so that is fun as well. He gets so excited when in the stroller because he just likes to look around. I love talking him on walks because he just smiles and "talks" most of the way because he loves it so much!

Some other funny things he does now is when we go upstairs to put him to bed, Micah always carries him up and I follow behind that. He realizes now that is what is going to happen so he looks over Micah's shoulder at me and smiles. We make a game out of it pretty much every night. Anytime Micah carries him up the stairs now he looks over his shoulder for me, whether I'm there or not. It's SO cute!!:) We have also discovered that he has a few tickle spots on him and we get him laughing pretty good. He loves music and always has, but whenever Micah plays the song "Mess Around" by Ray Charles on his phone Jonah gets a huge smile on his face...I guess it's his favorite:) Well, I could go on and on about how fun and cute Jonah is but I guess this will be all for now:)