Malachi - Eight Months

Weight

Birth: 8 lbs 5 oz

6 months: 19.9 lbs

8 months: 21.3 lbs

 

Length

Birth: 23 in

6 months: 27.3 in

8 months: 28.2 in

 

Diapers

Size 4

 

Clothes

12 or 12-18 months

 

Eating

We cut a bottle and feeding this month.

Now you eat at 6:30, breakfast, 10:30, lunch, 3:30, dinner and 6:30.

You take 6 oz bottles at daycare

You LOVE table food

 

Sleep

You're still a great sleeper

 

Likes

Water

Dominick – you always brighten right up when you see him

grabbing faces

playing with hot wheels cars (much to Dominick's dismay)

solid food

standing up (assisted)

 

Dislikes

Being buckled in the carseat

Being held while sleeping

Malachi,

 

This was another month full of the sickies. We battled your infections a lot this month and then…you got croup AGAIN! We are praying month 8 is your month and we can all just be healthy for a change. You also got TWO more teeth and I have a feeling another won’t be too far behind. You have 5 total.

 

You LOVE standing up to furniture, in your crib or pulling up on our legs. You also really like holding our hands to stand as well. Another big thing this month was we left Rainbow and moved you to the CDC on base. We weren’t sure it was going to be the best choice, but we happen to LOVE your new providers and I think they’re pretty smitten by you too. We were sad to leave Rainbow, but we have no doubts that this is going to be the better option for our family. Before we left Rainbow at lunch they gave you fish sticks (on accident) and you had a really bad reaction to it. So after talking to your dr we decided to avoid fish until after your first birthday. Hopefully it was just a fluke or that you grow out of it, but you had quite the little rash.

 

You are just THE happiest and sweetest baby ever. You have such a content demeanor. I know I say this every single month, but you’re so, so good! Even though you are the smiliest little guy you make us WORK for a giggle or laugh. You do think Dominick is just the funniest person around.

 

You crawl around like a little champion and you get around so good. Nothing can stop you now.

 

We are super excited because we picked out your Halloween costume. We are pretty excited to see you in it (*hint* Star Wars)!!!

 

Malachi Monster, I am so glad God knew how much we needed you. You’ve blessed our lives and brought so much happiness and love into our life. You are so different from Dominick and we often feel like first time parents all over again. You’ll never know how loved and wanted you are. You make my job as your mom pretty easy. While you’re far from perfect I love getting to learn all of your quirks and personality. We couldn’t love you anymore if we tried.

 

Love you to infinity and beyond,

Momma