8 Months Old

Our little bubba is growing up and boy is he a joy.  We are having SO much fun with him right now.  Since the last update at 6 months, Cooper has become a lean, mean, moving machine.  He has 100% mastered crawling (at approx 7 months, he had it down pretty good).  He can stand on his own for about 5 seconds.  He's pulling himself up on everything he can find and is pretty darn stable at balancing.  He's still a complete jumping fool, only now his crib has been added to the repittoire.   

We been working on sleep training.  Because he has always slept so well, we've never had to employ the tough love but after a trip to Tahoe and some sage advice from friends with kids a bit older than Coop, we realized it was time to break a few bad habits.  So far, for each habit, it has taken 1 night of 50 minutes of crying and the situation is resolved.  We'll see how it all goes from here, but for now we are doing well.

We have 4 teeth - two top and two bottom.  We love to grind them.  It's a TERRIBLE noise.

He is the most smiley kid, laughing all the time and flirting with everyone he meets.   He maintains his inquisitive presence and still prefers to observe before jumping into anything or anybody new.

As with anything new, food has not been a smashing success but we are working on it and by god, the kid loves his oatmeal.  Everything else is hit or miss and textures make him gag.  Any texture.   At all.  It's very dramatic.

Because he is so mobile, we have a head trauma at least once a day.  We're hoping all his faculties survive this off kilter time..