12 Months of Hudson// Month 8

-16+ pounds. 27.5 inches

-Size 2 diapers

-Still wears mostly 3-6 month clothes. (I had all of this cute summer clothes for him to wear in 6-9 months. It's breaking my heart that they're still too big on him.)

-Pulls himself to stand on EVERYTHING. crib, high chair legs, tv stand, glider, laundry basket, kitchen stools, couches, toy bin, walker, side of the tub.

-Starting to really get the hang of lowering himself back to the ground after he has stood up.

-Has dark blue eyes. Everyone comments on how blue they are. I hope they never change color.

-Hands and knees crawling! He rarely army crawls anymore
-Eats 6 ounces every 4-5 hours unless he has had solids.
-We finally got around to switching him to size 4 bottle nipples

-Will eat anything we give him. Baby led weaning is in full swing.
-Loves bananas, oranges, puffs, yogurt, peas.

-Little moocher. He is always after our food when we are eating and won't stop until we give him some.
-Plays independently really well.

-Probably 85% of the time he prefers to be put on the floor to crawl around and explore rather than be held. He always wants to be moving which means that he will crawl to you to be picked up, sit with you for a minute or two, and then try to squirm off of your lap because he doesn't actually want to be held.

-Loves toys that light up and sing/make noise, especially his singing tractor.

-Loves mirrors. He will sit and stare at himself whenever he comes across a mirror. (On a toy, in the bathroom, etc.)

-Has the cutest scrunchie face. He scrunches his nose and sniffs hard. It cute and hilarious. I just wish that I could get a video of it.
-Still spits all the time. Taylor and I are trying to get him to stop because we are so over being spit on all the time. We are losing the war.

-Makes an "ahem" sound when he wants more and we aren't feeding him fast enough for his liking.

-Wakes once a night more often than he sleeps through the night..
-Bangs on the crib with his pacifier when he wakes up.

-Most days he only naps twice a day, but some days he still naps 3 times a day.

-Has started to slowly cruise along furniture.
-Gets bashful. When someone he doesn't know well says hi to him depending on his mood he will put his down into you if you are holding him. If he is sitting by himself and someone talks to him he will put his head down for a second or two and then shyly look back up.
-First tooth!

He had a weight check up a week and a half after he turned 7 months. The worry was not that he is in a low percentile for weight, but the worry was that he dropped so many percentiles between check ups meaning his weight gain dropped dramatically. At the weight check up the doctor told me to keep doing what we are doing so for now (and hopefully always) we aren't worried about his weight gain.

Last Sunday at church there was a little boy about 2-3 months older than Hudson sitting in the last pew across from us. The little boy army crawled over to us while looking at Hudson, so I put Hudson on the floor to play with him. The little boy giggled at Hudson as they sat there and took turns reaching for and grabbing each other for a few minutes. Then they ditched staying by us and crawled over to an older couple that was sitting in the very back and played with them for a few minutes. They were quite the duo.

His first tooth is on the bottom right side. Really it's first teeth because the second one was only a day behind the first. They're not all the way out of his gums yet, but they are getting close. Teething these two teeth was a dream. We didn't even know that they were coming in until after the first one had poked through, and we only knew that it poked through because I was fishing a large chunk of orange out of his mouth. If every tooth came in as easy as these two did we would be happy, happy, happy.

The belly tickles <3
He kept whining for attention as I was trying to get some things done. I knew he wasn't really upset and some tickles would fix the whining.

Still so ticklish on his belly, his inner thighs, sometimes armpits, and his neck.