EIGHT MONTHS!

Holy guacamole.  Hutchinson is EIGHT MONTHS old! It is so hard to believe.  He is so much fun.  He is happy.  Just flat out a happy guy.  We are so thankful for that!  Everyone says 6-9 months is their favorite baby stage.  He is living up to that standard.  He loves to roll around and has started to do less army crawling and more inch-worming.  Finnean says he looks like a caterpillar...her really does!!  He can wave!! It is the cutest little thing.  He has started to get his clapping down.  He talks and talks and squeals and yells and grunts.  It is so funny to watch him talk with Finnean. (We have had to ask Finnean to be sure to talk like a big boy and not a baby!)  He gives "high fives" and it is pretty sweet.  If he is tired, that is about the only time he fusses.  He is still nursing...yah!!  We think he is still gaining weight, we haven't been back to the doctor for a while.  This past month he was sick with a yucky cold for much of it.  He had eye drops and was allergic to them...so that was no good.  Thankfully he is feeling better and hoping that stuffy nose stays away!  He weighed in at 16 pounds on March 12th.  He went from the 1% to the 15% on the growth chart in just over a month!  WHOOO!!  He has started being "shy."  If someone he doesn't know looks in his car seat, he kind of tucks his head down and looks at them with one eye...just a bit leary...then flashes them a smile!  He LOVES to get a reaction, all the little ladies at church try to make him smile, he does and then grins at their reaction of cheers.  It is pretty sweet.  He loves hanging with his family and going on walks.  We may or may not have heard him say MaMa and DaDa...I am sure that it wasn't directed at us but he is getting some new sounds.  He also has amazing timing when it comes to responding to something you have said to him.  Seems like he is really carrying on a conversation!  It sounds like he says HI a lot :)  He is wearing size 3 diapers and mostly 6-9 month clothes.  He is still waking up most nights to eat once, but has teased me with sleeping til 5 or 6 a few nights!  I have wished and wished for him to sleep through the night and then he did and he STAYED awake!! So, it kind of backfired on me.  I would rather get up and feed him and then have him sleep til 7.  5 and 6 am and I are really not friends.  He wakes up happy and it is about the sweet thing to hear him talking in his crib.  He takes 3 naps a day and sleeps pretty well for naps.  He does a good job eating solids and started with some finger foods...it is about to get messy here!  He is just a fun little guy and we can't believe that he has been in our family for eight months!!  Here are some pictures from his little 8 month photo shoot...enjoy! 

Love his little legs rolls!!

Deep in thought.

Love his little open-mouth smile!

Drool.

This is my favorite picture from the shoot. It just captures what we see most of the time---a happy, happy boy!!