Grayson Christian is 8 months old! He is army crawling, eating some people food, pushing himself up onto his toys that are stationary on the floor, making wet, sloppy raspberry sounds with his mouth, swinging in the baby swing at the park and getting into everything. He is still the biggest flirt and loves to put on a show. He weighs 20 pounds 10 1/2 ounces and is thinning out a little because he is moving around so much. He is still our little chuncky monkey with the cutest rolls, but they are definitely getting smaller. His hair is growing a lot and his swirl is still very prevalent, which we love, but not sure he will. He is our perfect little baby and we love watching him grow. It's hard to believe he will be one year old in four months. We love our little guy so much!
Grayson is wearing size 9 months and some 12 month clothes. We are starting to put the 9 month clothing away as it becomes too small. He is still wearing size 3 diapers for the daytime, but we will be switching to size 4 very soon and size 4 for nighttime. He is wearing size 2 shoes, but we will be switching to size 3 very soon. He is wearing medium and large sleep sacks, which is so hard to believe because it feels like yesterday he was in a size small.
We are just starting to add breakfast to his routine. We are trying to do yogurt for breakfast, 1-2 packets of stage 2 baby food for lunch and 1-2 packets of baby food and rice cereal mixed in for dinner. He just learned how to suck the food out of the packet, but makes the biggest mess so this is definitely a work in progress. He also has 5 bottles per day of formula with 4-6 ounces and 7 ounces before bed. I hope to get rid of one of those bottles soon. On April 18th he tried yogurt for the first time and ate every last bite and wanted more. When we went to visit Allison, Cora, Elin and Gabe on April 24th he tried avocados, raspberries and organic gouda chicken sausage and he loved all of it. Also that day he got in the baby swing at the park for the first time and had a blast. He has also tried bananas, chocolate ice cream bar (a tiny bit of my sample at Costco), cupcake from Holly after his baptism, ice cream and hamburger at his baptism and fruit and spinach smoothies we make at home. So far he has liked everything he has tried of people food. We hope to keep introducing new foods to him and hope that he is a good eater, but we will see as I know a lot of kids are picky eaters.
He has recently started getting up once at night, but we let him cry it out because he just wants us to come get him. Also, he has been getting up around 5 or 5:30am and has not been going back down. This has made his nap schedule a little more difficult because he wants to take his first nap at 8am, but that throws off his nap schedule for the day so we try to push him a little. He can normally go 3-4 hour stretches of staying up, but normally in the morning it's more like 2-3 hours. He wakes up between 5-6:30am and has a bottle, takes a nap around 8:30/9:15am, has lunch around 11, then another bottle around 12, takes a nap around 1:30, another bottle around 3, dinner around 5 and his last bottle around 6:45pm.
We now have a crawler, actually he's army crawling, but very fast so I'm not sure he is in a hurry to crawl on all fours. He first crawled on April 30th in front of his momma, Oma and Julia. We were so excited and shocked and knew it was all about to change. Our little guy was entering a whole new stage. Daddy was a little bummed because he was in Detroit for work and missed it, but he saw it the next day and was so happy. He is now into everything so we had to baby proof the family room and will be doing the rest of the house now. He likes to remove the outside piece of the soft floor in the family room and tries to chew it so we had to remove this piece from the whole floor. He is also trying to open the cabinet doors under our television. We had to move our wine rack because he kept crawling over to it and trying to get the wine bottles out. I'm not sure what we are going to do about the puppy pad that we leave in the bathroom for Bella as he is now crawling over to the bathroom.
Notes on pictures below
Grayson ate gouda chicken sausage for the first time at the Ohlanders and loved it.
Grayson is wearing size 9 months and some 12 month clothes. We are starting to put the 9 month clothing away as it becomes too small. He is still wearing size 3 diapers for the daytime, but we will be switching to size 4 very soon and size 4 for nighttime. He is wearing size 2 shoes, but we will be switching to size 3 very soon. He is wearing medium and large sleep sacks, which is so hard to believe because it feels like yesterday he was in a size small.
We are just starting to add breakfast to his routine. We are trying to do yogurt for breakfast, 1-2 packets of stage 2 baby food for lunch and 1-2 packets of baby food and rice cereal mixed in for dinner. He just learned how to suck the food out of the packet, but makes the biggest mess so this is definitely a work in progress. He also has 5 bottles per day of formula with 4-6 ounces and 7 ounces before bed. I hope to get rid of one of those bottles soon. On April 18th he tried yogurt for the first time and ate every last bite and wanted more. When we went to visit Allison, Cora, Elin and Gabe on April 24th he tried avocados, raspberries and organic gouda chicken sausage and he loved all of it. Also that day he got in the baby swing at the park for the first time and had a blast. He has also tried bananas, chocolate ice cream bar (a tiny bit of my sample at Costco), cupcake from Holly after his baptism, ice cream and hamburger at his baptism and fruit and spinach smoothies we make at home. So far he has liked everything he has tried of people food. We hope to keep introducing new foods to him and hope that he is a good eater, but we will see as I know a lot of kids are picky eaters.
He has recently started getting up once at night, but we let him cry it out because he just wants us to come get him. Also, he has been getting up around 5 or 5:30am and has not been going back down. This has made his nap schedule a little more difficult because he wants to take his first nap at 8am, but that throws off his nap schedule for the day so we try to push him a little. He can normally go 3-4 hour stretches of staying up, but normally in the morning it's more like 2-3 hours. He wakes up between 5-6:30am and has a bottle, takes a nap around 8:30/9:15am, has lunch around 11, then another bottle around 12, takes a nap around 1:30, another bottle around 3, dinner around 5 and his last bottle around 6:45pm.
We now have a crawler, actually he's army crawling, but very fast so I'm not sure he is in a hurry to crawl on all fours. He first crawled on April 30th in front of his momma, Oma and Julia. We were so excited and shocked and knew it was all about to change. Our little guy was entering a whole new stage. Daddy was a little bummed because he was in Detroit for work and missed it, but he saw it the next day and was so happy. He is now into everything so we had to baby proof the family room and will be doing the rest of the house now. He likes to remove the outside piece of the soft floor in the family room and tries to chew it so we had to remove this piece from the whole floor. He is also trying to open the cabinet doors under our television. We had to move our wine rack because he kept crawling over to it and trying to get the wine bottles out. I'm not sure what we are going to do about the puppy pad that we leave in the bathroom for Bella as he is now crawling over to the bathroom.
Notes on pictures below
Grayson ate gouda chicken sausage for the first time at the Ohlanders and loved it.
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