8 months

Liam is now 8 months old and it is crazy to think that this little man has been in with us for 8 months. He is growing so much. I would say his height is pretty average (a little above average I guess) but he has really really long legs. Right now he is wearing pants that are for 12 to 18 months! However he can still fit in 6 months onesies although they are starting to get pretty snug. Liam is still 100% a Momma's boy! I would say he is sleeping through the night except when he is sick and sometimes he gets hungry around 6 am so I have to get up and feed him but he goes right back to sleep. Liam is now sleeping with a pillow I noticed when he is tired he grabs things like they are pillows so I figured he wanted one. Eli didn't do this until he was like 18 months or so.

Things I want to remember or things of note:

• Liam is an official crawler at about 7 1/2 months. He army crawled for about 2 weeks and then when half army half knees for about a week and now it is all knees. It was funny because my mom said he was so good at army crawling that she thought he would never crawl and then the very next day he started to crawl!
• When I leave for boot camp Liam hates it and usually gives his baby sitter and run for their money. When I get home he has this total look of relief and when I hold him he will just look up and stare at me for a few minutes and give the biggest smile and then kiss my lips. Then he finishes up with laying his head on my left shoulder with the biggest happiest hug and sigh. It really is one of the cutest things!
• Liam LOVES Eli. He thinks Eli is so funny. They play together a lot already and they actually already wrestle. Liam likes it about 85% of the time and then other times he doesn't want to be touched. Eli is the same way...I guess we are all like that.
• Liam eats a lot of foods. He likes Bananas, kiwi's, yogurt, peas, pears, smashed apples, crackers, fruit leathers and anything on our plates that he can take from us. He also has stolen a strawberry, muffins, muffins with nuts in them and all sorts of food.
  
• Liam currently has 5 teeth. He just cut 3 of them. He has two on top and 3 on bottom and the top two were very painful to cut and took him a VERY long time. At one point they looked so painful it looked like he had a blister on his gum's. It was very sad.
• Eli and Liam both had there first ear infections this week. It was so sad to hear they had it but I was lucky and caught it pretty early.
  
• Liam pulls himself up to standing position all the time, but then a few minutes or seconds later you hear him screaming because he doesn't know how to get down, so I have to come a save him. He has walked around one piece of furniture, but I think we still have a good amount of time before he starts walking.
• Liam can be a challenge sometimes because he likes to be held so much but he is really well behaved when I leave and go places. He likes the park, mall or basically anywhere he goes with me. He likes being out of the house a lot. I can say he is much easier out of the house then at home.
• Liam is just starting to watch TV he likes things with bright colors but only watches for may be two minutes.