8 month update!

I know I am a little late with this one, but things have been pretty busy in the Pearlman household!

But yes, our little tyke is 8 months old already! I can't believe it, and all I can think of, is how fast the next 4 are going to go before he turns one! Which means I need to start planning his first birthday party, eek! Also, it's October, which means Joshua's first halloween, so he is wearing his robot halloween costume in some of his pictures this month!

With 8 months of life comes many changes for little Josh. He is a fast crawling machine now, and loves to stand up. He pretty much hates napping on most days because he knows there are better things for him to do, and put in his mouth. But he is still a very mellow, good mannered baby! He is happy and smiling unless he is sich, hungry, or tired (or teething...which he currently is) He loves to stand up, and try to balance without holding on. He is also getting pretty good at furniture walking without falling down, didn't take him long, and I fear full-fledged walking may be right around the corner for us! Watch out world!

The top four teeth that have been fighting their way down for the past three months are still not in yet, but getting so close! I can see the little white edges of them now, and of course it's all four at once making it 4 times as fun for him and us! But I guess, all the better this way, killes four birds with one, very long, sleepless, stone . . . so to speak!

So that's all for that I guess. Here are some of the 8 month photos, and you can check flickr and facebook for more!

Joshua Standing up - the video.

Proof

Well I could never catch him standing up before even though he's been doing it for awhile now, but lately he has been pulling himself up on everything and trying to furniture walk. So, I now have photographic evidence.

Joshua is also earning himself a new nickname: "the Goat," because he eats EVERYTHING! Dirt on the floor, the animals, legs of the coffee table and chairs, dog dish... anything else he can grab, or lick... in the mouth! I learned this morning that if joshua is on the floor, I can not take my eyes off of him for a second. This morning, I was sitting on the floor playing with him and I brought my coffee mug to the side of the coffee table where I was sitting, it was near the edge, but not too close (or so I thought). Funny thing is, as I  was moving it I was thinking, "maybe I shouldn't do that, he will probably get a hold of it somehow and it'll be everywhere . . . nahhhh." But, alas, I was sitting right there so I figured, it would be fine, I looked away for literally a second, still sitting in the same spot... Joshua decided he needed to see what I was drinking, and turbo speed crawled over to the table, stood up, and pulled my half full mug of coffee off the table and onto me, him, and the floor. Luckily, it wasn't very hot, and no one got hurt, but I think I scared him because of my reaction of shock and sadness that my coffee was on the floor! He made a frowny "uht-oh" face, but no tears. We both got changed, rug got cleaned, and all was well again.

Poor guy has also had hives on and off for 3 days now. We have no idea what from, they aren't bad like the first time he got them because of the milk. They disappear as fast as they appear, and I am told it bothers the parents more than the baby. He is still his happy self, eating and sleeping and getting into trouble, so I was told to give him benadryl two times a day today and tomorrow and see if it will knock the allergy he is having out of his system.

I know this update was long, and there will be another in a week when he turns 8 months (ALREADY?!) And I plan on dressing him in his halloween costume for his photo shoot since he didn't get to wear it yet. :) Be excited!

Standing up! 

Chewing on the corner of the coffee table

Licking the window . . .

Looking cute to distract me from the fact that he was just licking the window.

Update: There IS something new

Right after I write in the last post that "nothing new was happening" blah blah blah. something new DID happen, so I figured I'd update before I forget.

Joshua can now stand up all by himself (uht-ohhhh) I kept saying how he looked like he could do it if he could only figure out how to pull himself close enough to something that was the right height. Well, I was right. I was sitting on the floor playing with him when he spotted the new box of diapers across the room by the chair. So he crawled over to gnaw on the box for a little while. Then slip himself on his knees right up next to it and POP—he was up. Once there he wasn't sure what to do, but he was very proud of himself and banged on the box for a little while and laughed at himself. Not sure he knows how to get back down without falling yet, which will be a problem for awhile on our hard floors, but he'll learn I'm sure.

He also can pull himself up in his crib. I went to go get him up when he woke up from a nap yesterday and there he was, standing at the edge of the crib hanging on for dear life and crying his eyes out. But he was up! I haven't gotten a good picture of him up yet, maybe tomorrow I will. So for now, here is another from his 7 month pictures. And the rest are on flickr, as always!

Big Man Turns 7 . . . Months!

7 months old already! I t really does go fast, as much as I denied it ever could when I hadn't slept for 2 months in the beginning.

Now our boss is 7 months old, crawling, laughing at himself, trying to pull himself up on things, terrorizing the animals, and getting into everything we don't want him to get into! And we love it, and he loves it I'm pretty sure. He has turned into quite a happy little guy. He seems to get more and more mellow by the day. Much like his mama, he is really only ever in a bad mood if he is hungry or tired haha.

The next task is trying to get him to take longer naps, and less times a day instead of being king of the catnap like he currently is. Would be much easier to plan a day if I knew I would have longer stretches of time that it would be safe to be out of the house without a meltdown from him or me.

I think that is about all that is new for now. Joshua doesn't have another doctor's appointment until November when he has him 9 month checkup. I may have to do a weight and measure on my own to see how big he's gotten! He's outgrown his infant carrier seat now, and really prefers napping in his crib instead of his pack 'n' play now. We also had to lower his crib mattress down because he is beginning to pull up on things and could get his shoulders up to the top of the crib when he tried. 

Here are a few of the photos from his 7 month shoot. The rest are on flickr if you want to see them!

He can crawl!

As some of you already know, Joshua is now mobile! Just like all of the other milestones it seems, one day he wasn't crawling, and the next he was! We just sat him on the floor, he spotted the video game rack and TV and decided, it belonged in his mouth, if he could figure out a way to get it there. Or course, that would be the first thing he decided to crawl to, he is his father's son haha. Even when I pick him up and turn him to his toys, and put him across the room from the TV he always ends up back over there. I guess it's time to make a trip to the store to buy baby proofing things! And finally we will get the TV mounted on the wall (we have have the wall mount kit in our house for over a year now!)

Anyway, as promised, here are a couple videos of him crawling, he's not very graceful or quick yet, but definitely cute!

Joshua wants this. He told me so.

It's from Rockabye.com. It's a Joshua Giraffe! And he wants it. Who wouldn't really! So, just in case anyone wins the lottery, and is wondering what a 6 month old wants, it's this. How could he not?! it goes with his song (see below)