8 months!

You are 2/3 of a year old, Maximilian! Mama still loves you more than anything, in case you were wondering.
You had your first haircut today! Your hair in the front went down to your nose
You now can properly crawl, although half the time you still do your army crawl thing. You did it once a couple days ago, but today right after your haircut we set you down and you crawled all over like you'd been doing it forever.
You started pulling yourself up on your first Valentine's Day! More about that here.
Still no teeth...
You eat any food we give you. This month, the new foods you have tried include: chinese noodles, rice, cooked carrots, beets, chicken noodles, pizza crust, mashed potatoes, cooked onion, cooked broccoli (didn't really like that), real peaches (peaches just don't seem to be your fave), hard boiled egg, and cinnamon toast.

Still nursing. You have calmed back down a lot so it is easier to get you to breastfeed for longer.

You wake up around 7:15, take your first nap around 9, second nap around 1, sometimes a short nap at about 5, bed around 8. It seems like you've been waking up during the night more often again. If you have gained quite a bit at your 9 month doctor's appointment, we will probably take steps to get you to sleep more.

You've started vocalizing more. It is sooo cute. You definitely try to tell us things, but we just can't understand you yet.

You've recently taken up head-butting. I'm not sure it's not on purpose. I don't know if it had anything to do with your dad buying UFC for the Xbox. You gave mama a fat, bloody lip the other day.

I love you more than anything. There is nothing that warms my heart more than when you lie your head on my shoulder after a long day and I sing you to sleep. You are and always will be my baby boy.

Pulling up

Maximilian started pulling himself up on his first Valentine's Day. It pretty much went from him army crawling on his 6 month birthday, becoming super efficient at it around 6.5 months, around 7 months he started using his crib rail to pull on to try to look to see us when we come in the door, then on 2/13/12 he did this number:

Not quite standing, but going in the right direction.

Then, last night, AJ and I were sitting around watching TV when he excitedly army crawled over to his daddy and pretty much pulled himself right up. We then spent the next at least half an hour to try to get him to do it again. And he wouldn't. So we gave up. Then a little later...

And my heart melted, yet again. I love this boy.

7 months

You started army crawling right around your 6 month birthday, and in the weeks since have become very adept at it. You can get across the room in like 5-10 seconds. It's crazy!

You get up on your hands and knees frequently but still don't feel the need to properly crawl since you are so good at army crawling. Sometimes you get on your hands and feet like this:

Hands and feet! You don't know what to do from here yet, but it's so cute! 

Still no teeth, but sometimes still seems like they're bothering you.

You are loving some foods, but not others. Foods that you've tried and liked are (baby) apples, pears, apple/blueberry, squash, carrots, sometimes sweet potatoes, and (whole) bananas, clementines, tomatoes, and pears. You haven't really liked peas, green beans, or peaches; but we haven't tried peaches again in a while. Otherwise, still breastfeeding probably twice during the night and 6ish? times during the day.

I am pretty sure you sometimes say "Mama"! The first time I heard it was right when I walked in the door on 1/22. Your dad disagrees, so I am hoping you say it a little more clearly so we can end the discussion! :)

You usually get up around 8AM, take a 2 hour nap at 10:30 or 11, then 1 or 2 more shorter naps in the afternoon. Bedtime is around 8PM, then you wake up twice, usually around 2 then around 5.

You still love the remote/Xbox controller/cell phone and will do anything and everything to get them. It's ridiculous, but so cute!

You will put anything in your mouth that you can get your little hands on. This combined with your new army crawling skill has caused the need for a bit better baby proofing.

You love bouncing in your Johnny Jump Up. Sometimes you'll jump out to the side and bounce back like that's totally what you meant to do.

You are definitely starting to prefer Mommy, especially when tired. I secretly love it!

Your nicknames currently include: Chubby, Chubby-Wubby, Maximo, Yung-Sun, Chubber-Pie, and Chunker.

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