Today, Caleb turns 8 months old. This past month, Andy had the opportunity to work from home and has gotten to watch Caleb accomplish some amazing things. Right at 7 months, Caleb graduated from the army crawl to real crawling. Now, he’s able to pull up on low objects (usually Mommy). He is also saying “Dada” quite regularly although I doubt he knows the meaning. He understands several words including “Mama”, “Dada”, “book”, “Toby”, “duckie” and sometimes “no”. His love for books has grown tremendously. Reading time now involves a mountain of books in one sitting. He now officially has three teeth. One top tooth has cut through and the other one will make it’s debut shortly. We are slowly introducing small finger foods into his diet. Now that he knows he can eat intact foods, I usually have to share whatever I’m eating. His current favorites are mangos and cantaloupe.

His naps have mostly stabilized into two good naps a day. I am SO happy that his naps are predictable. It really helps us structure our day and he now has no problems going to sleep because it’s all part of our routine. For naps, I just walk him around to music and it only takes about 3-5 minutes for him to fall asleep. Bedtime is the same. After bath, I rock and feed him and he’s out like a light in a few minutes.

Here’s a video I took this morning of his new vocabulary. He was in a VERY talkative mood today.