The Polingo Peeps: 8 months!

Michael is officially 8 months old as of October 15th!

October has been a pretty busy month so far! We have had some gorgeous weather and we took advantage of it! We did a few trips to the zoo (surprise!) and we went to the Scarecrow festival! Jo and I decided to take the kiddos on a random Monday. Not all of the activites were open, but it was also not very busy, which is great when you have 2 active little girls that like to run around!

Jo and Ava riding the train

My little Blue Eyes!

Jo and Ava climbing the "mountain"

Some snuggle time with Auntie Jo

Hangin with Mommy

"This isn't fun anymore!"

We tried taking some pictures of Michael with my nieces and nephew one Sunday afternoon. Let me tell you...getting 5 kids ages 3 and under to sit still with no crying to take a reasonably decent picture is darn near impossible! Michael was a little crabby from a nap that got cut short and cried every time I set him down. It might have been the crunchy leaves. It might have been the amount of activity going on around him, but this is what we got...

Sweet Ava trying to calm Michael by singing "Twinkle Twinkle"

Note the arms in the air, waiting for someone to pick him up!

We tried a different spot in the windbreak behind my parent's house and we finally ended up getting a somewhat decent picture of Michael by himself, but nothing with all the kiddos. He also happens to be sitting on my leg in this picture. We'll take what we can get!

Michael is moving like crazy! Diaper changes are becoming extremely challenging and he has found a love of electic cords. He sees one and he does anything possible to get to it! He does really well with moving around, but he hasn't mastered crawling yet. He's almost there, but he can't quite figure out the hands and knees thing.

He loves playing on the floor with all of his toys. He now has 4 teeth (2 top and 2 bottom) with 2 more coming in on top. He's showing some fussiness with it. Tylenol and a warm mist humidifer are my new best friends. He likes to chew on stuff...mostly his finger or a burp cloth. Turns out teethers were an unnecessary purchase :)

Here are some of his 8-month pictures. He did pretty well again until he saw the lens cap on the floor and tried sliding off the rocker! I thought I got some good ones, but when I go back to look at them, I realize that most of them are blurry due to how fast he's moving (and my own fault for not quite learning how to use my camera!)!