Elijah: 7 8 9 Months

I have good intentions to be organized but it rarely works. So here's the last three months all lumped together. Sometime in the last three months he has started crawling (like crazy, super fast), babbling lots and lots (Dada, not Mama), clapping when he's hungry, sleeping in his crib (yaay!!! this one's still pretty new). At one point I thought for SURE he'd be a later walker than his brother and sister, they walked so young and he seemed to be taking his sweet time. But now he pulls himself up and walks along the edges of furniture, maybe it won't be too long after all.

Yesterday we went to the beach and he experienced his first mouthful of sand. Poor kid, I never would have let that happen to Archer. With E, I just thought, now he'll learn it doesn't taste good, why wait for that lesson till he's older? Ok, he only got a LITTLE in his mouth, I got most of it off his face right away. But seriously, I'm so much more relaxed about things like that now.There are more important things to worry about now, like helping Shelly make the PERFECT sand-home. David said it looked like a house from Whoville. We even built a stone patio out back, and a pool. Oh yeah, and E tried to eat the rocks.

I can't even find the seven and nine month pictures. Oh well. Here's Eight!