Hard to believe it, but Nathan just turned 8 months old!

This is a big food milestone for me because for some reason I have become more comfortable with letting him try certain foods I was not comfortable with before. We’ve broken up Gerber puffs for him to try (though he hasn’t figured out how to pick them up himself yet), and he’s getting oatmeal. We also just started yogurt today, which surprisingly he was unphased by and didn’t even make the usual face he makes with the first taste of new food.

We thought he might be getting ready to pop his first tooth since he started chewing on things even more than usual and sucking on his lower lip, but nothing so far. He’s still pulling up all the time and loves to stand, but he’s also started tolerating more time on his tummy and he’s pushing with his feet a little and rocking, so maybe he’ll crawl afterall!

In a previous post I mentioned how he doesn’t roll, but the latest development is that Nathan is rolling over in his crib. He goes from back to tummy, and most times he wakes up now we find him on his stomach, pushing up with his hands. I’ve caught him sleeping on his tummy once, and last night I found him sleeping perpendicular at the end of the crib on his back, so I think he finally rolled from back to tummy, and back to his back again. Right now the rolling in the crib seems to be interrupting his sleep a little, but I think ultimately it will be good if he figures out how to comfortably sleep on his belly and roll in both directions.

Nathan recently started getting his baths in the big tub since he outgrew the infant tub we had. Its actually made bathing him a lot easier, and he LOVES getting a bath. Its part of our bedtime routine so he knows its coming when I start to get him undressed before bed and he gets really excited. He’ll start squealing and kicking his legs around. In the bath he usually just chews on a little crab toy we have, and he likes to put his hands under the running water. He hasn’t started splashing yet.

The best part of Nathan getting older is how we are seeing his personality develop. He’s still a sweet, happy kid and for the most part he’s not too fussy (knocking on wood!), but now he is also expressing himself when we take something away from him that he wasn’t done with, or when he sees something he wants. And I just love seeing all the things that make him happy and excited.