Life with the Lairds: 8 Months

Once again it's time for a little Ari fix! Our little man hit 8 months at the beginning of the week. One day after Cara and I celebrated our two year anniversary. It's hard to believe it's been two years that we have been married already and almost four years that we've been together. I must be doing something right for her to want to stay around, so I'll just keep doing what I'm doing. All joking aside, she is more than I was ever hoping for in a wife and much more!

Ari is officially teething and cut his first tooth the day after he hit 8 months and he's been working on the other one the rest of the week. We knew he was teething but now we have some proof to show people. As you can see from Cara's last post, the last few months have been a struggle and last week was especially bad. Normally Cara tries to let me sleep during the week so I'm not totally dead at work but I think I was up five of the seven nights last week at 3 because he had been up so much and she needed some sleep too. Hopefully once his other bottom tooth come through we can get a break for a week or so before the top ones start hurting his gums. It sure would be nice to catch up on a little sleep if we can.

Ari is getting closer and closer to becoming mobile everyday. Last night during quiet time, part of our bedtime routine, he pushed up onto his knees five or six times pretty much right in a row. Although he still fusses if he's on his belly too long. We aren't too worried about that phase as once he starts moving he won't care what part of his body he's on.

We didn't have a doctor's appointment to report on this month. First time in a few months that he didn't have to get poked with a needle. Woo hoo!! Cara is participating in a study for nursing moms at the U of A and they weigh and measure Ari periodically as well. She had an appointment last week and Ari weighed in at 20 lbs 2 oz but the lady could really figure out how to run a tape measure so he only measured 26.25 inches. Which is only slightly longer than a few months ago at the doctor's office. We have never been real impressed with the accuracy of measurements anyway. We can tell he's much longer because a few months ago his feet didn't fill up his footed jammies and now they do. Our next wellness check up is at 9 months and thank goodness there won't be any shots then either. Stay tuned for our next update!!

Yes it actually got cold enough to wear this outfit a few weeks ago so we figured we better take advantage of it because it was probably our last shot before he grows out of it and warm weather returns.