Letter to Baby

Dear Luke,

You are 8 months old now!  The months just keep flying by and before you know it you'll be 1!  We've already started talking about your first birthday party!

It's starting to get a little cooler now, fall is definitely upon us and on closer inspection to your closet, you only had 2 pairs of pants that fit!  I've been buying ahead, and I guess I forgot about buying for now.  It's okay, I've been shopping and you've got enough pants to last throughout a week or two now :).  You love being outside.  You smile when the wind hits your face, you stare up at the leaves on the trees moving, and just love exploring the world around you.  Now that it's not 100+ degrees outside, we've also started going for walks in the afternoons.  Sometimes we hope you'll take a little nap, but you just kick your feet back and forth and enjoy the stroll.

Everyone still comments on what a wonderful, laid back baby you are.  We went to some garage sales yesterday morning, and every stop we made you were just perfect.  You took a few little naps in between sales, and then you were all smiles when it was time to get out.  We couldn't ask for a better behaved son!

You are now in 6-9 month tops and 3-6 month bottoms - you don't have any tooshy to speak of.  Oh, and speaking of tooshy, you love bath time, and so when we strip you down we yell 'Naked Tooshy!' and you just laugh and smile.  You can sit up in the bath now, but we had to put down a bath mat down so you wouldn't slip and slide everywhere.

We think you're starting to wave 'bye', but we're not completely sure.  But when you do it, it's pretty awesome!  You are still trying to crawl.  Those legs get up under you, but your arms just don't know what to do, so you lie there with your butt in the air until you finally roll yourself to the side.  You can feed yourself your bottle now, and that little bit of independence for us both is great!  You've started looking at yourself in the mirror, although I don't know if you know it's you or not, but either way, you smile at your reflection!

Your favorite toys include some rattle balls, a lion with teeter rings on its' feet, a soft car and the remote.  Everything goes in your mouth, too, so we have to be careful of what we can give you!  You've got both of those 2 bottom teeth in so we're trying you out on some more food.  Mainly some food called Baby Mum Mums, some puff cereal, and you had ice cream and a lick (or 7) of a sucker at a birthday party.  Just to be clear, your dad is the one that gave you ice cream and the sucker.  Bananas are one of your very favorite foods, so we slice some up and put it in a mesh feeder and let you go to town.  It's super messy, so we strip you down to the diaper, but you really love it!

I cannot believe how much you've grown since your little 4 pound 10.5 ounce self.  You're such a chunk now and I just love kissing your belly!  Your dad kisses it, too, and you laugh up a storm!  I think his beard tickles you :)  We are so glad that you are a part of our family!  We don't know what we ever did without you, you just make us so proud!

We love you, son.
Mom and Dad