Levi {8 Months}

Size: Size 3 Pampers Cruisers and size 4 Pampers Swaddlers. Wearing 9 month clothes. Weighs roughly 18 lbs on our home scale.

Eating: Right at 7 months we started solids 3 times a day (added solids at lunch to make 3 meals a day). He's had all kinds of homemade fruits and veggies and eats all of them really well. His favorites are squash, zucchini, and carrots! He hated avocado at first but has grown to love it. We introduced Puffs right at 7 months too and he is doing great with his pincer grasp and putting them in his mouth. Since the normal Puffs are not dairy/soy/gluten free, we found these "safe" Puffs and they are yummy! Levi nurses or takes 5 oz. breast milk in a bottle 4 times a day (usually around 7:30a, 11:30a, 3p, 7p). He is still intolerant to dairy, soy and gluten so I am still excluding those things from my diet. 

Sleeping: Levi is now sleeping 11-12 hours at night (usually 7:30 p.m.-7:30 a.m.) and still takes a morning and afternoon nap. He loves to sleep on his tummy with his tush in the air!

Milestones:
~Babbles dadada and "talks" allll the time and usually quite loudly
~Inches, scoots, army crawls, and rolls all over the floor. Has no trouble getting to what he wants. Rocks and moves on all fours but not crawling.
~Had his first cold this past week with a runny/stuffy nose. It was thankfully very mild and did not affect his happy mood or sleep! We are even more thankful this was his first ever sickness considering he is in the church nursery for 2 hours every Sunday morning and on Wednesday nights.
~Catching on to waving, clapping, and imitating other things we do.
~We started baby sign language right at 7 months. It could take weeks/months to see him produce a sign, but we are being consistent with it and hoping he will eventually catch on. So far we have introduced signs for "more", "milk" and "water". He has put his hands together several times for "more" so I know he is watching and learning! 

Likes: his sippy cup and finger foods, banging on pots and pans, watching Daddy and Finley play on the floor, feeding his Puffs to Finley, reading/looking at books, splashing in the bath and playing with the water spout, dropping things out of his crib/the tub/his highchair/our lap/changing table... seriously his favorite little game!

Dislikes: when I turn the bath water off :) 

Not letting go of this cup, Mom!

Best buds.

Mommy's sweetie

What?!

"I've got these two wrapped around my little finger" :)

Lunch with Daddy at Jimmy Johns 

Running with these two=my fav

((1 Chronicles 16:11))

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!