Lincoln is 8 months

Lincoln is already 8 and a half months old now.

Like everyone says - I cannot believe how fast he has grown up.

He is such a firecracker of a boy

He is always on the move and is never sitting still.

Here are pictures galore of the Lincolnater at 8 months!

First time sitting in a shopping cart

Standing at the backdoor wishing he was outside with Daddy

Look! no hands!

Linc loves his walker!

He loves pulling out all the DVDs

and of courses loves to play with mommy's curtains

"humm what can I find in this drawer?!"

SO BIG!

ut oh!

This is how Lincoln sits in his carseat. He holds on for dear life. haha

Lincoln is such an amazing, good boy.

He naps so well. 2, 2hour naps a day and then a 45 minute nap.

He goes to bed at 7:30 and wakes up around 7:30 or 8am.

He does however, still wake up once at night - but we are working on him sleeping through the night.

He hardly EVER cries! He only fusses when he is tired or hungry. But we are usually on top of feeding him and we put him to bed right when the time is right that we really never really hear him cry :)

He is such an independent little guy. He loves playing with his toys and is content playing in his crib. He likes it when somebody is in the room with him and if he notices he is alone, he'll crawl around the house looking for someone :)

He has been crawling since he was 6 and a half months old. And the week he started crawling, he started pulling himself up and standing.

He can now stand on he own, and walk using support of the furniture or his walker. This guy l.o.v.e.s. to be moving!

He is such a little drooler. He has been since day one. His shirt is soaked within the first few hours of him being awake. He goes through many shirts and bibs each day :)

He LOVES being outside. Whenever he hears or sees one of the doors open, he crawls as fast as he can trying to escape. I can't wait for the summer weather to get here so we can actually go outside.

Lincoln loves talking. He can say dadadada (although he still doesn't associate it with 'daddy' yet - thank goodness, cuz I want him to say mamma first!!) He also loves to say lalalala. Sometimes he will have such a serious conversation with himself. You can tell he is concentrating so much.

He still only has his 2 bottom teeth in. He has a 3rd one ready to cut through any day now (although i've been saying that for months now - this tooth just wont cut!)

He is not a cuddler. Although, if you give him a toy to play with and his binky and his blanket, he sometimes will sit on your lap. I do cherish those moments when he is my cuddle bunny.

He has a very fast metabolism. We have to feed him about every 2 to 3 hours so that he can stay full throughout the night. (we figured that was the problem he was waking up every hour at night) He is still getting the hang of table foods.  He loves gramcrackers, his sippy cup, stars, his baby food mixed with rice cereal and of course his formula.  He will have a full setting of food and still want a bottle after words.  This boy can eat like his daddy - that's for sure.

Lincoln loves to play with the dish towels that hang on the oven. Everytime I hang them up, he crawls to them and pulls them off :)

He loves to fridge and freezer. When every I open it, he bolts to it and tries to climb inside.

He loves playing in the food cabinet.

He loves playing with my hair brush and all my shoes and loves to pull my clothes off their hangers.

He is a master at climbing up the stairs

He is soo friendly and is not stranger shy.  He will crawl to anyone, and play with anyone. At church he'll escape from us and crawl across the isle and sit with the families over there. I must say, it is nice being able to sit and actually listen what's being said in sacrament meeting:)

He is such a happy baby and always has a smile on his face.  People honestly stop me and ask me all.the.time. if he is always that happy and if he always has a smile on his face. My answer - yes! I am so, extremely lucky!

I can't believe my little man is going to be ONE in just a few months.

His party is already in the works :)