Porter at 8 months

(No, this post hasn't been stuck in Sideways world on LOST..I'm backdating this post a bit because I didn't get around to posting it on the actual day)

Today, Porter is 8 months old.

First time in a swing at the park (loved it!) 5/14

Here are some things about Porter at 8 months:

*Porter LOVES to eat. He can feed himself Cheerios, cheesy poofs, scrambled eggs, and pancakes. He loves to eat and in one sitting can easily put away two large containers of baby food (mixed with baby cereal) and a small container of yogurt. BEEFCAKE!

*Porter is super-mobile. He can easily and quickly climb all 14 of our stairs and sits at the top, grinning and looking proud of himself. He likes to go hang out in Maren's room and eat all of the tiny Pony accouterments that are usually lying on the floor in there. He crawls fast, pulls himself up on everything and is just generally very physical.

This was taken 4/19 when he could go up to the second stair. He went up all of the stairs on 4/30. Quick learner!

*Porter is strong. Trying to hold him when he clearly doesn't want to be contained (approximately 95% of the time) is hard. And exhausting. It's going to be 10 long months until he can go into the nursery at our church.

*Porter still adores Maren. He loves to when she plays with him and watches her with a big smile on his face! He thinks she is awesome.

Nice big goose egg on his forehead from falling into a closed door

*Porter has developed a bit of a temper! I never knew a baby this young could do that but if we do something that he doesn't like (take a toy away, not feed him fast enough, hold him down so we can change a diaper, etc) he growls and screeches and lets you know unmistakably that he is MAD. If he's like this already, I fear for the Terrible Twos.

*Porter loves to take baths and showers. He learned how to climb into the bathtub so we have to either lock him out of the room or just take him into the shower with us. When he hears the bathtub faucet turn on, he stops what he's doing and immediately goes in there like Pavlov's dog. One day I knew he had gone upstairs and I could hear him yelling--I went upstairs and found him inside my (dry) bathtub, behind the curtain. He'd gotten himself in but didn't realize he could get out the same way, and was yelling because he was stuck!

*Porter likes to play in the dog's water dish and the toilets, so both have to be kept out of reach/closed. Yuck.

*Porter's hair is curly when he gets out of the bath. I put gel into it to keep the curls, but they're usually gone after he naps and rubs his head around on the mattress.

*Porter learned to stand up in his crib on 4/19 so we had to lower it all the way because with the way he climbs into the bathtub, I'm afraid he'll fall out!

Porter seems much older than just 8 months old, because he's so mobile and so aggressive. I forget that he's still such a little baby, because his behaviors seem more like those of a young toddler. We love him and love to watch him explore the world! I can't wait for our pool to open because I think he's going to LOVE it, based on how much he seems to enjoy playing in water.