Holt is 8 Months!!

You're getting to be such a big boy while still maintaining your status of "best baby ever"!  Mommy and Daddy really appreciate how awesome you are!  Though, I do wish you would slow down with the growing.  Geez!

You have become extremely mobile this last month.  You're still scooting around on your tummy but you are fast and good.  You're technically crawling, just with your tummy on the ground.  Your brothers all did the reach and pull with dead legs.  You, sir, move your arms and legs opposite each other just like crawling.

The other day I walked out of the living room while your brothers were "watching you" and all of a sudden you had found me all the way back in the bathroom.  You love to beeline for the kitchen because you have discovered that there are "goodies" left behind on the floor by your endearing brothers.

You do get up on all fours, rock back and forth, as if you're gonna crawl, but then decide to flatten out and take off.  You can cross the house in a couple minutes flat.

You have begun to babble a lot and blow zerberts.  You love your pacifier, so we have to snatch your plug to hear you talk.  Other than random, adorable baby noises, you do say "dada" but it's just babbling and not actually calling Daddy--yet.

I'm not going to lie, I am a little bitter that you say "dada", when I am the one that you have a complete meltdown over immediately after I walk out of your line of sight.  You are a bit of a Momma's boy (may be the understatement of the year).

Grammy and Papaw introduced you to graham crackers, which  you LOVE.  We will neglect to tell Dr. Owen about that.  You have joined us for several meals in your Bumbo at the dinner table.  You eat your puffs and I could watch you do that for hours because it is just that cute.  I suspect it will not be much longer and you will have a permanent reserved seat.

And for the purposes of comparison, you are actually 8 months and 13 days old in these pictures.