Declan at 8 Months

Declan: Eight Months

• You wear 6 month clothes
• You weigh 16 pounds and you are 27 inches (finallllly you are past that 14 pounds!)
• You still wear size 2 diapers
• You take 2 naps a day, usually around 10 and 2. You go to bed 6:30pm and wake up at 6:30am.
• You usually eat about 6 bottles a day with about 6oz in each, your last bottle can go up to 8oz 
• You eat 3 meals a day. You have fruit with cereal in the morning, fruit or some veggies for lunch and then some veggies and yo-baby yogurt for dinner.  
• Your favorite foods are avocado and sweet potato (together) and any type of fruit. You really like all food and you're like a baby bird with your mouth open waiting for the food to come to you. It's so stinking cute.
• Your favorite toys are your tiny basketball, Cardinals baseball, your Cookie Jar and Cookies, your guitar and air plane. 
• Your bottom two teeth just came in this week. Thank goodness we were on vacation this past week since you got up 2 times every night for 4 nights.  Even when you're teething you're still a great baby, slightly fussier and wake up during the night wanting to be held and/or a bottle but go right back to sleep. 
• You can sit up by yourself and you can pull your self up on everything, and you just kinda fall down on you butt to get back down.
• We had to lower your mattress on June 19 because you learned how to stand up in your crib!
• You still army craw but not as much now that you know how to big boy crawl. 
• You have started holding your own bottle but still would rather someone else hold it.
• You have this fake cough you do when you want attention. It's adorable and everyone ask you if you're ok and then you smile at them.
• You are still sleep amazing in the car and you proved it again on our trip to Florida this week and the way back! So thankful for this!!

We just got back today from our first family vacation! We went to the beach in Florida. You LOVED the ocean. This makes my heart so happy seeing you love the waves coming in and wanting them to come back so you can jump in the water.  You also got to spend the entire week with your Gigi and Pepaw and uncle and aunts and a couple of your cousins. We took 2 days to get there (stopped and saw some friends along the way). Then on the way back we drove overnight back to Benton and you slept from 7pm when we left the condo until we pulled in the driveway 330am (8.5 hours) and then you took a bottle and went back to sleep until 9:45am!!

States visited as of July 2015:

Arkansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Florida

{EIGHT MONTHS}

{first time in a hotel 7/3}

{first time on the beach 7/4}

{daddy and declan feet in sand}

{first time on a boat to see the dolphins 7/9}

{your uncle s is so funny!! #Photobomb2015}

{milk, don't have to sit up to drink it}

{family beach pictures 7/9}

Every night when I feed you your last bottle of the day and you're falling asleep in my arms, I start to cry because I know this won't last forever and one day you won't be small enough to fit in my arms and on my lap.  I love your sweet little face and the way you look up to me when you are on the floor and you want me to pick you up. You know no stranger, you have no fear, and will let anyone hold you. Your daddy and I love you to the moon and back.

{first teeth 7/2}

{playing with your cousins}

{such a happy baby 99.9% of the time}

{you could be a baby model}

Happy 8 Month Birthday Baby Boy!

I'll love you forever

I'll like you for always,

As long as I'm living

My baby you'll be.

xoxo

ac