Just some quick Emerson updates. He now has 2 teeth! He got his first one last month and then his second one came through while we were at my parents house. He's getting pretty big too. Over 20 pounds now! He was getting too heavy for me while we were at my parents house so whenever we would go out, I would struggle trying to hold him haha. He's also super squirmy and wants to look all over the place so it makes it hard to hold him and walk around a store. He was in 6-9 month clothes before we left for Washington and now he is in 9 and 12 month clothes! He grew quite a bit while we were away. Thank goodness my mom spoiled him with new clothes haha.
Emerson can now officially hold his bottle all by himself and feed himself which is really nice for me. He does get lazy on occasion and I have to feed him but there are days where he'll just take the bottle and go to town all by himself. It's really nice because it allows me to get more things done and feed myself as well.
Emerson loves those Gerber puffs! Whenever we get them out, he reaches right for them and tries to put all of them in his mouth. It's pretty funny when we're holding one out for him and he'll just take our whole hand and stick it in his mouth in order to get the puffs. Jordan and I are also pretty sure that he's now a lefty. He grabs things a lot more with his left hand. Gonna make things a lot more difficult for us since neither of us are lefty's haha. He is also super close to crawling. He can get up on his hands and knees and he rocks back and forth and will occasionally scoot forward but he doesn't do it very often. Hopefully he'll start crawling soon because you can tell that he gets super frustrated not being able to move all over the place.
We went to the doctor today and got Emerson's helmet. So far he is doing pretty good with it. He doesn't like it when we initially put it on him but he calms down after a couple minutes and then is totally fine with it. The one downside to the helmet is that it makes him sweat A LOT. And not just on his head, his whole body. Probably gonna make summer this year pretty rough on him so we'll just have to make sure not to layer him up too much or anything.
Well, that's about it for his 8 month checkup. He had some pretty big milestones which was really nice and fun for me and Jordan. Sorry for no pictures and the shortness of the post. I will try to post some pictures a little later after Jordan and I have gotten all settled in and unpacked.
Hanging out on grandpa's rocking horse
Sitting on grandpa's old rocking chair
He liked the leather haha
Hopefully a future piano player :)
Yeah, it was kinda bright that day haha
Riding on the lawn mower with grandpa
Got his helmet this week
So happy that he can hold his bottle all on his own now
He enjoyed his first bubble bath :)
He's got 2 teeth now!!
He's kind of obsessed with selfie mode haha
