To celebrate Isaac’s eight-month birthday, a photo-essay on the
September 6, 2005 (age: 2 days) Mostly sleeping.
September 25, 2005 (age: 3 weeks) Who is this other creature?
October 5, 2005 (age: 1 month) More sleeping, some interacting.
October 11, 2005 (age: 6 weeks) Smiling!
April 24, 2006 (age: 7.5 months) Laughing, sitting, playing, babbling!
Happy Eight Baby!
Now that you’re really too big for the swing (i.e. your Fat Little Huge Feet hang off the end, you can reach up and grab the toy mobile, and your increasing weight prevents the motor from accomplishing its swingy function), it’s time to retire it. But let us all give thanks to the Fisher-Price corporation for their brilliant design (and to the generosity of friends Jay and Jen for handing it down to us). You spent many hours in the swing in your tiny days, and we were grateful that it could magically always soothe you.
Eight months has seen you getting better and better at the things you do. A major milestone, so conducive to the happiness of mom and dad, is that you now SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT! Yes, we can put you down around 7pm, and after changing, a flying tour of your room, nursing, and at least one story (recent favorites are Guess How Much I Love You and But Not the Hippopotamus), you sleep (for the most part) until a little after 6am. We love you very much.
You can now sit up by yourself for as long as you like (although you’re quite unhappy when you teeter over), and you are getting so impatient about not being able to move around by yourself that we know you will crawl any day now! You eat two jars of food at most meals and you are developing a “pincer grasp” that will soon enable you to feed yourself (hooray!). You love your cloth books, mostly to chew on, but you are starting to understand that books have pages that you can turn (which leads you to more pages to chew on). This is good because books figure prominently in mommy’s and daddy’s lives, and we hope they will in yours!!
Much love,
Mommy
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