Eight Months, One Week, and Five Days Old

Granted, it's not a milestone, but you have started doing so many exciting things!  Just shy of eight months, you started crawling.  And a few days after that, I noticed you have no problem pulling yourself up on furniture and tables and walking around using them as a hand rail.  Here are some other skills you are mastering -

• You play Indian.  You put your hand over your mouth (or mine) and say AhBaBaBaBa.
• You kiss.  Sometimes I can get you to do it. Other times, not so much.
• You click.  You made a clicking noise with your tongue and you wait for me to do it in reply.  It seems to be a way of communicating (what? I'm not sure).  But when we take long walks with the dogs, you and I can go back and forth clicking for over a mile.
• You love eating bread.  Especially if it's dipped in something yummy like Shrimp Bisque. 
• You have started picking up the newspaper.  I've always carried you outside to get the paper, and as of today, you wanted to reach down and pick it up yourself.  Even the Monsters don't do this.
• Bath time is still one of your favorite activities.  Recently, if you are bathing alone, I stopped using the sponge bath mat.  Now you are in the tub all by yourself and you love to lay down in the water on your back and kick your feet.  Mommy gets soaked. 

When you were first born, I often felt sad about every passing day because you were no longer an infant, or a 3 month old....time was moving so fast it made me sad.  But now, it's so exciting to see how proud you get when you master a new skill...I feel more happy about you growing up.  Being a parent is such an amazing blessing, and I thank God everyday for having you as my son.  I love you Gabriel.