The Big 08 Months!

That's right! The Best Baby in Texas is 8 months old now! Naturally we had us a little photoshoot.

As an 8 month old, Cade is

• crawling!
• making consonant sounds, mostly Bs and Ds
• Had his first word...or so claims his Dad. "Dada" is the alleged first word. I suppose I'll give it to him.
• 17.5-ish pounds of baby awesome. 
• sleeping without a swaddle. Just footie jammies and a light blanket.
• just a few days away from being baptized and not having to worry about baby limbo. Whew.
• a bit more demanding. Food, warm, sleep, hold-me no longer covers his needs. Now he has specific things he wants to play with or places he wants to go. Goodness.
• about to out-grow his ducky bath tub. Boo.
• able to sleep in the stroller, even when we go from outside to inside. He's taken 2 naps in the stroller in our entry way in the past week!
• super duper cute. Duh.

Baby's 1st Consonants

That's right! Another baby first! Today he just started babbling outta the blue. He's had vowel sounds for a while. A lot of "ahhhh" but now he's added consonants into the mix. I can't get enough of it! Which is good because apparently he's a chatter box like his mama.



And here's even more of it (+ crawling) from his afternoon with Erin.

Crawling Cade

Proof of crawling!

Unrelated but also fun, a pic from this morning's stroller walk

Also it is worth noting how super awesome my kid is. We had some friends over to watch football, play board games, eat and drink this afternoon. Cade went to bed at 7:15p and totally slept through the rowdy noises on the other side of his wall. The party broke up a few minutes after 8p and as of right now (8:30p) he is still snoozin. Clearly he is Super Baby.

Baby's 1st Haircut

And before we went to his Christmas photoshoot, this happened.



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Baby's 1st Photoshoot

Yesterday I cashed in on a sweet coupon picked out of Parents magazine in the doctor's office waiting room. $6 for 3 sheets of photo prints from JCPenney. Plus the $9 sitting fee and tax...we got Cade's Christmas pictures done for a cool $16.

Hijacked from the online album slideshow and ordering form, here's the winning shot!

Suburban Sunrise

Per the post Daylight Savings Time usual, my son woke with or before the sun today. Which meant I did too. And while this is usually quite unpopular, today it meant I saw this lovely sunrise. So lovely that though I put him back to bed, I stayed up to look at it myself.

#nofilter