8 months

Palmer is 8 months old today (or as Tyler put it- 2/3rds of a year)! He is so happy lately and loves to grab and chew on anything that is semi-dangerous/not meant to be a toy. It's fun to watch him sit on the floor and, after he very intentionally selects which toy he wants to pick up, he twirls it around in his wrist, inspecting it from various angles. He is also getting good at making noise! He bangs his toys together, or shakes them vigorously if they have a jingle bell or something inside.
I have to remind myself that I can sit him on the floor in the kitchen now if I want to free up my hands for transferring laundry or other things like that. He has a strong torso and can usually right himself if he gets leaned too far over one way, but an occasional topple usually ends in tears. I think crawling is still a ways away, but that is just fine with me! A stationary baby is a baby that's easy to keep track of :).

He knows a lot more about his surroundings now than he used to. Anytime during the day that I walk him through our master bedroom toward his nursery, he fusses because he doesn't want to take a nap yet! When Tyler gets home from work, Palmer is often in his Bumbo on the kitchen counter. When he hears the door open he whips his head right around to see who's comin! Of course he is blissfully happy when it's Daddy coming to see him.

Palmer is sleeping on average about 11 1/2 hours, going to bed at 7:30pm, waking at 4:00 to nurse, and then it's back to sleep until 7:00am. This is SOOOO much nicer than the hourly wake-ups we were experiencing a few weeks ago! He is eating three pretty hefty solid meals a day, including the newly introduced nectarines and green beans. Eating is his favorite thing to do I think, so when he's in that Bumbo- you'd better have some sort of spectacular distraction planned, or get that boy some food!