8 months

Nate the Great is Eight (months old)! Here's what we've been up to:

He is very comfortable sitting by himself now, here he is in a cute new romper that Grandma sent:

Nate is babbling a ton lately...he use a lot of B and M sounds, and I like to pretend that when he says Mamamamamama, he is calling for me.

He is also super grabby these days, and very curious. He loves to grab eyeglasses, our food and drinks, the cat...anything within reach. Here he is sizing me up to see if he can steal away my phone from me...

Nate's sleep is mediocre, to put it kindly, and he spends much of the night with us. He's very different from Simon that way--Simon was independent from the start and did better when he had his own space to sleep. Nate is happiest with his face smushed up against one of ours, he is always grabbing our faces almost as he would a security blanket, or playing with my hair to fall asleep. It's adorable, and we have somewhat given up fighting the fact that we are basically cosleeping with him at this point. Here he is just falling asleep for a nap and then below, a shot of the sweet face we get to wake up to.

And in the mornings, Simon has a new ritual of coming into our room to say hi to Nate when he is just waking up. He still calls him bro bro much of the time, but has recently started imitating me and calling him Little Man, which is about the cutest thing ever. Here they are doing their thing one recent morning.





Finally, here's just a cute shot of the brothers together!