Friday, March 16, 2007

King John Michael

John Michael is growing so quickly.... and like Abi he is totally a mommy's boy!! He loves me to hold him and snuggle with him and he'd sit on my hip all day long without a nap if he could! He's a big boy too... wearing 12-18 month clothes already. He can still wear 6-12's but some of them are getting to short on him. He's not that chunky but he has some tree trunk legs and a long body.

Here he is on Fat Tuesday. We were at the Bull's game and they passed out free masks and necklaces.



He's a happy little guy for the most part. As long as you aren't trying to get him to sleep or keeping him from his mommy he's quick to smile.





I think I might start calling him Dr. Drooler.... he has a seemingly constant flow of saliva flowing from that gaping mouth of his! We also like to call him "Oral Fixation Boy" since absolutely everything he gets his hands on ends up in his mouth. That is one of the many ways he is different from Addy as a baby. She rarely chewed on things and when she did it was always the same couple of toys.



He loves to read books.



I can't believe he's almost 8 months old! He's still not crawling but he wiggles his way around quite a bit. He scoots backwards easily and spins in circles but I don't think it'll be long before he learns how to move forward. He gets on his hands and knees and bounces like Addy did shortly before she started crawling. So, he's taking his time with crawling and also with teeth. There are no signs of any pearly whites and since Addy almost made it to her first birthday without a little tooth I'm not holding my breath!

He loved going outside when the weather was warm earlier this week (pictures soon) but I'm sad to say that we're back indoors for this thirty degree weather (it SNOWED yesterday!). But we're keeping warm!!



(note Oral Fixation boy doing a coat tasting below)



More soon!

2 comments:

Kathy said...

He looks really cute in the last one, Abi has that same facination but not as cute a cost!

Anonymous said...

Babies are so different! I thought all babies put things in their mouth, so that's interesting Addy didn't so much. Sadie tries to eat EVERYTHING (the fridge, shoes, the air vent, lotion bottles, etc.). About the crawling- Sadie's not crawling yet either. I guess they're just not in a hurry.