8 months

I'm a little late again posting this update. In the past month Léo has mastered what he's learnt by the time he was 7 months old (thank God for no new developmental milestone. I don't think I could have handled the night time rehearsing!): he crawls a lot, pulls himself up a lot, chats and sings constantly, smiles a gazillion times a day, doesn't sleep through the night, and is overall an absolute joy to be around!

Random little things:

- He loves to eat -and will taste anything you put in his mouth. He loves to shove 2 to 3 pieces of food in his mouth at once. Then he can't chew anything and spits everything out. Classy baby.

- He loves looking outside and could spend a looong time on the window still if we let him.

- He shows what he wants by staring at them (like the widow or the dog). He also started waving toward things he wants to touch -palm pointing down, fingers waving.

- He has 4 teeth. Actually his 2 bottom teeth are out. The 3rd one (up) if halfway out and the 4th (up as well) one just came out yesterday night -he cried so much I had to go out at 11PM an buy ibuprofen. His teeth are so cute!

- He is very affectionate and wants to be held quite often. When he sees me or Joe he crawls to us and stands up while holding our pants, then holds his arms up. It's a "problem" when I work from home and step in the living room to grab something because he comes to me and I just have to pick him up!

- He's really curious. He is starting to really look at books when we read to him instead of just shoving them in his mouth.

- He refuses to lay on his back in his bath. Now he wants to be sitting. That's fine, except I don't know how to rinse his hair.

That's 8-month old Léo in a nutshell. He is a happy, energetic, loving, kind baby boy. Here he is, babbling in his bath. I love this video -and this little boy of ours.