8 month old pictures

Or how to play catch up

Here are Alex's Toby pictures from August 4. We took them in what has commonly become known as the "man cave" around our house - the play tent. Alex has learned to love this place, especially the shape sorter "mail box".

He was about 18 lbs at the beginning of the month (he's 19 now). He's still eating like a trooper, but we discovered that he won't eat any baby food with more than 2 ingredients. He prefers his food simple. He does not crawl - but he can roll all over the place. He also has yet to have a tooth break through even though he's had plenty of teething symptons. He'd also had his first ear infection by his 8 month birthday. Now he's had two more. He loves to play with blocks, eat books and bang anything together as long as it results in a loud noise. Hard to believe it's only two weeks to his 9 month birthday.