Mama Mirocha: Miles 7.5-8.5 months old

I'm a total slacker. I admit it.

Miles started for real crawling at 7.5 months. He is FAST and wants to explore anything he can get in to. I'm so tired lately -- in bed by 9pm for sure...

Since I slacked writing updates the last month and a half here is where he is at with everything today (8.5 month updates):

Food: I LOVE our daycare. He is eating so many things at school (BLTs, crackers & guac, risotto with mushroom, enchiladas, fresh fruit and veggies) so it's making our confidence as new parents a little better when we feed him at home. I'm so scared of choking! We were at my parents a couple weekends ago and JJ ate an entire strawberry and choked -- Joe grabbed him and came to the rescue but oh my...my heart stopped for a split second then wouldn't slow down for a few minutes. It was one of the scariest things I've ever encountered. Anyways, Miles, like his DA-DA, loves food. We went to Kathy and Joe's for a BBQ on the 4th of July and for dinner he had:

A pouch
A jar
Black beans
Couscous
Guac
Blueberries
Joe's famous ribs
Grilled corn (we gave him half of my almost eaten husk for him to gnaw on)

It's crazy to see how much he can eat! Every time we put him in his high chair he just bounces in his seat and his arms go wild because he knows what's about to happen. I bought a ton of organic produce the other weekend and made baby food for 3.5 hours one Saturday afternoon. It felt great after but honeslty it didn't make as much as I had hoped -- and probably wasn't that much cheaper! I think he will start to grow out of purees very soon so I doubt I will make any more. I have found sweet potatoes make the most for what you get. Broccoli...the least amount. I think a huge stalk of it made four 2oz containers which is basically two meals.
Teeth:Top four teeth came in right at 7-7.5 months. We think he might have two more up there now but haven't confirmed because he will not sit still for us to look. Still only has his two bottom teeth - they are so cute and little compared to his top ones.

Sleep: Honestly, we struck a gold mine with this little one. He is sleeping by 6:30pm every night (sometimes even earlier) and wakes up around 6:30am. Most nights we do not have to go in to his room whatsoever; other nights we might need to put his paci back in but that's it. We do not pick him up really ever anymore to rock him (such a naughty habit). People always say you can't get lucky with all your kids being good sleepers so I'm sure Baby #2 will be up all hours of the night and only able to sleep in our arms, etc...I will cherish every (sleeping) moment I have with Miles Magoo. I realize it isn't really typical for him to sleep through the night 12+ hours as early as he did (around 5.5 months). I'll thank the Gods now while I'm well rested ;)

Words: He says MA-MA and DA-DA...but he doesn't knows that Dan and I are in fact mama and dada. He just says them a lot but not to the right person :)

He is pulling himself up on everything and will walk if he is holding on to any toy with wheels (like his firetruck, below). He will take a couple steps around furniture but hasn't stood still unassisted yet. We have moved the baby blue bath tub in to storage and currently use a laundry basket. I think we will need to get rid of that soon though...although he just wants to stand up when in the tub and it makes me nervous he will slip and fall! Kathy says Miles is just like Dan when he was that age. On weekends I am extra tired just chasing him around -- he can't sit still. He just wants to move and play with a different toy every few minutes (not even!).

So for some reason he thinks when we say "Peee-ew" or "Stinky" it's the funniest thing in the world. He will automatically smile and start giggling --- so naturally, whenever we want to take a pic of him we wave our hand in front of our nose and say "oooooh stinky" and he just lights up. I'd say 99% of the below pics we are saying that!