Moving along, can someone please tell Time to slow down? My little man is growing up way too fast for my liking :(
Yes, we are now at 8 months old for Dean. He doesn't have another checkup until January, but will go in for another round of blood work the beginning of December.
Dean is now up to eating yellow squash, zucchini, sweet potato, avocado, bananas, and pears. Did I mention before he doesn't like peas? Well, he is not a fan of peas. If peas were a Facebook page, Dean would not "Like" it. I felt that we had to do a food restart after the peas fiasco, so now he's back to enjoying food. Before, when he'd see the spoon coming, he'd throw such a fit! Then he tasted and realized it wasn't peas, and everything was as it should be, lol! After this round of yellow squash, we'll go to cantaloupe and then broccoli, two new foods! I'm excited, could you tell? ;-) We started adding his salt to his food instead of his milk. Partly so that when he's older he won't request salt to go with his ice cream ;-) Just kidding. Our hope is that once he's eating normally that the natural salt found in food will be enough or close to enough of what he needs to supplement his need. We shall see!
He's also getting the hang of his sippy cup, and seems to be enjoying it quite nicely
Good thing he's liking food again, as he's working on Tooth #4! He's had the bottom front 2 for a while. Now he's getting the 2 on top. Over the past couple of weeks, Dean has also picked up on waving. Sometimes it's on cue, others, well, he just wants to wave, lol! You'll see what I mean.
Dean's starting the gradual move from trench crawling to regular crawling! He can now go a few paces before dropping back to the belly and trenching the rest of the way. I suppose because it's faster. He's getting it!
Oh, Dean had his first Halloween! He was the cutest elephant I've ever seen:
Just melts my heart!
I'm so excited to be celebrating Dean's first Thanksgiving this year. You can count on it that many pictures will be taken! Until then, here's his 8 month picture with his super-fast waving hand!
Nicole
