I've said it at least 10 times already - I can't believe Caden is 8 months old! All of the sudden it feels like he's just so...big! Just now a picture of Branson at the same age, wearing a shirt Caden often wears came up on our photo frame and I turned to Justin and told him that I remember that moment like it was yesterday! Now B is almost 4 and we have another kid that same age!
Anyway, Caden has really grown this last month or two and learned so many new things! Here's what he's been up to:
- Right at about 8 months he started sitting up by himself. GAME CHANGER. I love when they can finally sit up and you can just set them down to let them play.
- He responds to his name. This is always a fun one for me. I don't know why. I guess it's just fun to see a baby figure out that when we string certain sounds together we're calling for him. I hope he likes his name 💙.
- He's a pretty fast army crawler, but still hasn't figured out how to crawl with his tummy off the floor.
- To fall asleep we put him in his bed and put his magical black minky coutour blanket over his legs and a binky in his mouth. Most nights he grabs the blanket and pulls it up to his face, then turns over and goes to sleep. It's pretty adorable.
- He's really getting into baby food lately. He eats a whole jar pretty fast and gets a little miffed if you don't get the spoon to his mouth quick enough. It's pretty cute how he gets so excited when the bite gets close. He starts kicking his legs and opening his mouth nice and wide.
- The big boys and dad went camping this weekend so I thought it was probably a good opportunity to start sleep training Caden (you know, once his softy dad was out of the way haha). Up until now he'd sleep from about 7:30 or 8 to midnight when we'd wake him up and feed him and then he'd sleep until about 7am. If we didn't do the midnight feeding he'd often wake up anywhere between 2 and 5am crying. Anyway, he cried for about 5 min the first two nights, but went back to sleep and slept straight through the third night!
- He's still the sweetest little guy and is such an incredible light in our family. He adores his older brothers and they adore him (side note: for some reason Branson usually shows his love by climbing on top of Caden or squeezing his thighs or cheeks just a liiiittttle too tight haha). I love how snuggly he is. And daddy can always, always get a big smile which melts his heart.
His brothers LOVE feeding him! Especially Branson, but I've even asked Nolan to feed him (unsupervised 👀) so I could get something done.
Often if he's fussy and we can't figure out why we'll just stick him outside and he's happy! He doesn't even mind sitting directly on the grass (I know lots of babies don't like that).
Oh naked Branson feeding little brother.
Caden's bedtime necessities: black minky blanket, binky, and the green dino.
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