We got our new video camera today (ours died last week) and I was just playing around with it and seeing how it worked while I was running bath water for Van. Good timing because he took some of his first steps to Mommy while I had the camera rolling 🙂

Mommy gave me a haircut tonight. I think I am pretty cute 🙂

Well, here we are at 8 months. Van is growing up way too fast – it seems he learns a new skill (and by skill, I mean some new way of creating havoc and destruction) every day. This evening, I came around the corner to find Van as seen below – minus Jen. He had found this box in the living room and pushed it around the couch, skirted the chair, past the table to get to the gate protecting the trash can. He then climbed up onto the box thereby thwarting what Jen and I had previously deemed an impenetrable wall of protection around said trash can. Clearly we…

Our little guy is now 8 months old and weighs 18lbs. 2oz. He is getting so big and is more of a toddler than a baby. Sometimes we miss the little baby stage… he was so tiny and was content being held for hours… but we are loving Van in this new stage he is in. He is not content to be in one place for long, doesn’t like being held or restrained in any way shape or form. He is constantly on the go and is our little explorer. This month Van decided that he has a deep hatred for anything that had straps or a harness or impeded…

Lately, Van has been, well, let’s say “fussy” when we put him on the changing table to swap out his wet, dirty diaper for a nice, dry, clean diaper. He wriggles, squirms, whines and tries to roll over (which will put him head first onto the floor). For our sanity and his safety, we tried to bribe him with some “Parent’s Choice Little Puffs – Banana Flavor.” Made with whole grains, Parent’s Choice is a puffed grain snack for babies beginning to self-feed. If you think you know where this is going, that is, a fine review for these tasty snacks, you are wrong. Jen and I took these tasty…

Van is going to be 8 months in a few weeks and I figured I’d better get his 7 month update on here before then! This last month has been one full of changes- probably more than any other so far. He is officially crawling and is FAST! He chases Pilot and can get anywhere he wants to go. He is no longer limited to one room, but will crawl all over the house. A few days after Van turned 6 months old, he started to pull himself up to a standing position on his own. It took only a day or two and then he started pulling himself up…

The last few days Van has really started to do more and more. A few days ago he crawled to Pilot. He still scoots most of the time, but is crawling more and more. He has just started to blow out of his mouth and make a “pwbbttt” sound. He puts his mouth on everything and zurburts. It is too funny. I’ll try to post a video soon. He is starting try to stand and a few days ago pulled himself all the way up into a standing position, after which he promptly fell over. LOL! Today he figured out how to really jump in his jumperoo. He would jump…

Thanks to Jake and Deb, Van has his first car…and he loves it! Taking it out for a spin around the block. Look out! Van’s first wipe-out. Mom was there just in the nick of time. Mmmm, I love my new car. Thanks Auntie Deb and Uncle Jake.