The Florida Belts

On November7th, Logan turned 8 months old.  He’s been pretty busy over the last month, here’s a peak at what he’s up to now.

Logan in his highchair

He has now outgrown his infant car seat.  Not in weight, but definitely in height.  We purchased the Evenflo Triumph Advanced Convetible Car Seat from Walmart as his replacement, it should be arriving this week.  We won’t have his official weight and height check from the pediatrician’s office until his 9-month baby well visit in December, but we estimate that he is about 21 lbs now.  He is really enjoying solid foods, and he’s moved on to Gerber 2nd foods this month.  He eats about four 2nd foods per day, and each one is about 3.5oz.  He’s still eating rice cereal mixed in with his food, and is getting a large majority of his nutrition from breast milk.  I would guess he drinks about 25-30 oz of breast milk per day.  We haven’t started him on complex combinations of baby food or big people food yet, but imagine that will probably start sometime next month.  I think that he’ll be ready to start chomping on food now that’s his THIRD tooth is coming in!!  His second bottom middle tooth came in just after I wrote his 7 month update, but I just noticed number three yesterday, it’s on the top left.   Such a big boy!

Sitting Unassisted - You can see my teeth!!

Speaking of a big boy…he is now a rolling machine!  It seems like when ever I put him on his back, the first thing he does is try to roll over.  Which includes putting him on his back to change his diaper!  He still prefers rolling to his right, and I rarely see him roll from front to back, but I know it will all come in time.  He even prefers to sleep on his stomach now.  It doesn’t seem to matter what I do to encourage him to sleep on his back, he always finds his way back to his tummy, so now I just put him to bed on his back, and whatever he does from there is up to him.  He still hasn’t started crawling yet, but he has figured out he can pivot/turn his body while on his belly.  I’m thinking it’s only a matter of time until he figures out he can use his legs and actually go places.

He’s sitting up unassisted pretty well now.  He’s even learned how to use his hands to rebalance himself if he shifts his weight too much to one side.  He still topples over occasionally, but that is happening less and less often now.  He has also learned to pull himself up from a reclined position, which I learned the hard way.  He has a reclined rocking chair with toys that dangle over his head (see chair).  One day while making breakfast, he was playing in that chair.  I feel like I had turned my back for one second, and when I turned around he was leaning WAY forward, he had gotten his body on the other side of the hanging toys and the rocking chair looked like it was about to topple over and land with Logan doing a face plant into the floor.  THANKFULLY, I saw him in time to grab him.  To make a long story short…no more rocking chair for him!

Standing like a Big Boy!

Logan is still the happy, mild mannered baby he’s been from the start.  Although, I think he had his first episode of stranger anxiety this weekend.   He seems so easily entertained these days, and really loves to laugh.  He enjoys laughing at his daddy’s funny faces.  Every time he sees Wes in the room, he stares at him as if to say “Dance Clown”.  He’s sooo entertained by his daddy doing little dances, singing, or just jiggling his head around like a bobble head toy.  Logan still loves Wrigley.  He seems to be constantly laughing at her.  Whenever she comes by him to lick his face, Logan seems to open his mouth.  What a goof ball!  He really likes to stand up, and enjoys walking from one end of the room to the other while holding someones hands.  Peek-A-Boo is now one of his favorite games…just saying the words will make him smile.

Make sure to check out the photos for this month.  He had some professional pictures taken at daycare that are included in this months photo gallery.

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