8.5 Months

I wanted to do a little photo shoot before Graham's eighth month birthday completely passed us by and this is how he felt about it.

He did cooperate a bit better later.

Life skills learned this month:

• Went from sorta sitting up momentarily to sitting up with confidence
• Stretching to reach for things, as well as push ups
• He pushes himself both forward and backward

He loves to redistribute toys from the toy bin throughout the room and will do so for extended periods of time.

Two bottom teeth finally broke through after months of drooling, and he has begun to feed himself num nums-- Gerber puffs-- as Ethan calls them. If you don't get them on his tray fast enough he starts pounding on it and fussing. I haven't seen them in Saudi so I am a bit concerned.

Lastly, he loves to prepare magazines for recycling.

The next day he was all smiles for the camera.

His interests have changed so much since we arrived. Our plane ride home will be a whole different experience.