Owen at Eight and a Half Months

Owen's been battling a pretty tough cold and cough combo the entire last week.  So not fun for a boy who just wants to move and be on the go!  Owen had a lot of milestones the first weeks after turning 8 months old so I'm going to recap them now before I get the 9 months stats in just a week!

Owen's first tooth popped through on the 14th of January!  It was his bottom left tooth.  Owen still only has the one but we're happy the teeth are finally coming.  He was pretty drooly for awhile but I don't think the actual cutting of the tooth was as painful as feeling all the teeth move under the gum.  I'm hoping the rest decide to follow suit pretty soon so he'll be able to eat more foods!

Owen would only eat spoon fed baby food until his tooth popped through.  Ever since then (and before his cold came) he was loving the finger foods.  We finally gave him cheerios and also a variety of crackers.  He was doing pretty good on chunks of bananas too!  I started trying to bulk up his foods more by getting him stage 3 jars of food but also by grinding up noodles to put in plain strained veggies.

The latest adventure Owen is taking us on is the land of steps.  It was about a week after turning 8 months that he climbed just one step but curiosity was only stilled a few days before he wanted to do more and more steps and actually climbed the entire flight of stairs!  He's been doing the entire flight at least once a day for almost the last week!

Does he look like he's ready to go or what?!  He is so proud of himself too, as you can imagine.  Megan thinks we need to have the gate up all the time and is so worried about him on the stairs.  John and I have no problem with him playing around on the steps as long as there's supervision.  How else is he supposed to learn his way around the steps and get comfortable on them?

So smiley!!!

The one minute he actually laid still on the changing table after bath time :)

Owen is obsessed with baths and now the water (along with the drains and faucet parts).  He loves trying to grab for the water only to have his hand go right through it!