Play time

Our little cutie playing with his toys :)

Play time was naked last week. Mommy was sick of changing his clothes due to spitting up.

Ways to Encourage a New Mom

Compiled from The Gypsy Mama

Leave immediately when the baby falls asleep so she can nap

Tell her she’s a hero

Bring her food in disposable dishes so she doesn’t have to deal with washing or returning them

Share details of what you love about her baby

Don’t tidy your house before she comes over to visit – it doesn't help her to think you have it all together

Make sure she’s actually in 1 out of every 1,000 photos she’s taking

Take candid photos of her in the new daily routine

Don’t bring over any magazines that feature celebrities in swimsuits 6 weeks after giving birth

Ask her what the one chore is around the house she wishes she could get to and do it for her

Always bring your camera when you visit

Don’t just make a hand print of the baby – make one of mom and/or dad’s too for a fun comparison keepsake

Warn her everyone will have an opinion on how she mothers but at the end of the day, hers is the only one that matters

Assure her that motherhood is not graded; some days just surviving is victory enough

Tell her there's no such think as "doing it all." And especially no such thing as “doing it all perfectly.”

Reassure her that sometimes the love and happiness in a home is directly proportional to the mess.

Tell her it’s normal to be smitten with love one minute and weeping with tired the next

Tell her there’s no shame in cereal for breakfast, lunch and dinner

Remind her it’s the ordinary days that make the extraordinary memories

Promise her it will just keep getting betterD

8 months!

Another month has quickly gone by!

Very interested in playing with the paper this month. I think it feels good to crinkle it!

Just this weekend, I figured out the best way to get him to smile - dangle the remote!

Loving his sock monkey!

8 Month Stats:
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Height: ?

He lost some weight during the last 2 weeks with being sick, but he put most of it back on during the last week. We measured about 27 inches with the measuring tape at home.

8 Month Milestones:

• eating 3 solid meals a day of fruits, veggies, meats and yogurt

• officially sitting on his own and loving it

• putting his hands down to balance when he starts to fall

• baby babbles like "mamama" and "bababa"

• grabbing at everything he can get his hands on (silverware, jewelry, hair, glasses, paper, etc)

• sleeping 10-11 hours and still swaddles (but breaking out sometimes)

• drooling more, but no teeth yet

• switched to new daycare and doing very well