Holy cow! I feel like Stockton started crawling out of no where. He went from us putting him in the crawling position, to him getting himself up on all fours, to army crawling, and then crawling within a week or so. He loves his new found freedom and I love that he follows us around the house. The object that got him most motivated to crawl and move forward was a silly little cardboard Jazz coaster. Super random, but he wanted it bad enough to start crawling.
Since Stockton has learned to crawl, we lowered his crib. He's getting so big! He has also taught himself how to get in the sitting position all by himself. It was a cute surprise when I went in to get him after a nap and he was sitting there smiling all proud of himself.
We've had a lot of fun this month. We went to another pumpkin patch with our friends the Alatorres. It was so much fun to go on a little hay ride and pick out our pumpkins from the field instead of a box at the store. At home, we played in Stockton's first leaf pile and picked our first little pumpkin that we grew.
During the Fall we also took some family pictures! I LOVE how they turned out!
For Stockton's first Halloween he dressed up in two costumes. His Aunt Amy gave him a cute Superman costume that his cousin Anthony wore when he was a baby. It was so cute! Nathan and I dressed up in Super attire as well to match and we went to Chipotle for dinner with Nathan's parents and sister Meg and her kids.
Then we changed Stockton into his second costume, which was an adorable penguin suit from my mom. And of course, I had Nathan and I dress to match. We took Stockton to visit his Oma and Opa, my parents, for his first Trick or Treating experience. He had no clue what was going on, but it was fun anyway. His favorite thing he got was a little pumpkin flashlight. We then went to a couple of houses in our neighborhood and ended the night with Cranberry Cider and donuts at our place with Nathan's family.
At 8 Months Stockton:
- Is crawling! And can go from sitting to crawling to sitting all on his own.
- Has had his crib lowered
- Loves to play peekaboo (Especially while he's standing on the couch looking over trying to find one of us.)
- Gets excited when dad walks through the door home from work
- Sometimes will give mom kisses. (It's so cute!)
- Does not hold still for diaper changes anymore...
- Enjoys eating lemons and limes. Seriously, he loves them!
- Is starting to get his two bottom teeth.
