Beckett - 8 months!!

In 2 days Beckett will be 8 months!!!  and we're loving every minute of it!!

8 month stats:

Wt:  19lbs 10oz (and this was from about a week ago!)

AND This is more than Ruby Belle weighed at 1 year! WOW!

• has 7 teeth and one breaking through as we speak (Ruby Belle only had 2 at this age!)
• his eyes are still blue...but do have some hazel seeping in I think...
• he's crawling all over
• pulling up to stand
• and all over!!!  he's non-stop! 
• loves to put everything in his mouth
• grunts LOUDLY a LOT! and in public places.  
• He's eating lots of pureed foods.  Usually we make our own foods and my new favorite (his new favorite) is mac n'cheese w/LOTS of mixed veggies mixed in.  He will eat most of those stinky Gerber meat-and-mixed-veggie combos.  However, he hated the pureed pears and peaches I made (just used the low sugar canned ones).  Hated them so much that he immediately vomited the peaches and his meal up (those were his dessert).  Wouldn't even touch the pears...even when I mixed them with cereal.
• eats 6 times a day...usually a bottle and food
• sometimes holds his own bottle and tries to take the spoon and feed himself
• I'm still pumping (5 times a day) and we don't usually have to supplement w/formula
• he has tried a sippy cup a few times, with some success
• he mostly sleeps through the night...it's been hit or miss for about a month due to being sick, but we're almost getting back in the swing of things regularly! 
• goes to bed around 7:30-8, wakes around 6-7am
• wearing 9-12 month clothes
• wearing size 3 diapers and cloth diapers (as seen in the pics below)
• loves baths
• LOVES LOVES LOVES his sister
• seriously happy baby!!  these smiles you see are constant and so easy to come by!!  (SO much different than Ruby Belle...she was much more serious as a baby!)

some pics...overload, I know, but it's SO hard to decide what you like best when it's your little man!

(yes, that's a "princess" bandaid on his hand because those are all we have and I'm a terrible mommy and let him accidentally brush his hand against a hot pot today :-( didn't faze him, but it looks yucky!)