8 Months

On Tuesday Zack turned 8 months old. My little boy is growing up so fast!

This past month we have had a few things that have happened.

On February 13th Zack had his hypospadious surgery. Google it if you want to know exactly what it is. He did amazing! He is all healed and we go in for a check up with the urologist on Friday.

Since learning how to crawl Zack has become a terror (in a good way). He is all over the house! And all over Abbie. He gets so excited when he sees Abbie and makes a bee-line for him. Abbie is actually doing fairly well with Zack and only tried to swipe at him a few times (without his claws). Zack is pulling himself up on everything. He's just not satisfied unless he's standing up. I'm sure he will be walking in no time. There has been a few times I've stood him up in the middle of a room and he's stood for a second or two, then slowly lowers himself to a sitting position. It's nothing that I'm forcing but he's definitely getting stronger and less wobbly legs.

Zack has also found our bookshelf of movies and at least twice a day if not more he pulls the 3rd row and sometimes the 2nd row of DVD's from the shelf.

And now that Zack is mobile he is finding all kinds of stuff to put into his mouth. I think I've vacummed and swept the house well enough but Zack always find some stray item to put in his mouth. He's also hiding from me when I see him chewing on something and try to get it out of his mouth. He's definitly learning and adapting!

Zack is also very vocal. He loves to talk and I'm sure when he starts using words he is going to be a chatterbox! He growls at me all the time too, it's pretty funny. But of course as soon as I get the camera out to video him talking and growling he clams up.

Another thing that Zack has started doing in the past month is sleeping on his belly during the night. When I lay him down to sleep I always put him on his back. He loves his blue fuzzy blanket so I put that by his face so he can hold it at night. But sometime in the night he flips over and tucks his knees underneath him. I worry becuase he is on his face, but I guess he's strong enough to move if it's hard for him to breath. Plus there isn't much I can about it, if I move him he'll just get back in the same position.

Zack has brought such joy into our house! I love him more every day! I could not imagine life without him, and feel so blessed that he is a part of our family!