Porter is 8 Months Already!

Porter is 8 months old (as of Tuesday)!! He has learned so much in the past month. Porter is mostly smiles but sometimes gets sad and occasionally gets mad when he is very, very hungry or tired. He has 4 or 5 bottles a day and usually eats food 3 times a day. He doesn't really like food very much so I have to feed him that before his bottle so he will eat it. He takes 2 naps a day, 3 every now and then, and goes to bed with Carson at about 7.
Porter loves bathtime. He kicks and kicks and squeals the entire time.

He loves Carson and just stares at him all day long. When Carson walks by, Porter smiles and giggles. He loves to sit in the stroller next to him. Sometimes he gets upset when Carson starts yelling.
This morning I heard Carson talking really softly and when I opened their bedroom door to get them up, I found Carson sitting by PoPo's crib talking to him. Porter was just looking through the slats at Carson. I didn't even know he was awake, because he wasn't making any noise.

Porter likes to go to the park and eat the grass. He was scared of it a couple of months ago, but now it doesn't seem to bother him.

For Halloween, Porter was a skeleton. I figured he might be at the crawling stage around halloween and I didn't know what the weather would be like. So I wanted to keep it simple and not all big and bulky.

He was so happy to be a skeleton!

Porter can hold his own bottle. This is the greatest thing ever. Carson NEVER did that. It is so nice to be able to hand him a bottle in the stroller or carseat and for the most part he can eat. Sometimes it gets everywhere, but he is still happy just playing with it.

Porter has 3 teeth. It is funny that he has one on the side. I think the other one is finally coming in on the other side to match, but he will still look like dracula. He was so happy to smile for this picture.

Here is Porter sitting up. He had been working on sitting and he started doing it kind of all at the same time as crawling. He still falls backwards a lot, though.



Porter was crawling to come get us. I was in the bathroom giving Carson a bath. I turned around and I could see his head bobbing around the corner. He was probably really excited because he heard bath water.

And apparently he had too much to eat for lunch.

Porter HATES to have his face wiped after he is done eating. He starts screaming immediately. He loves tv of any kind, and still gets all excited as soon as you hit power on the dvd player. He can not pay attention to anything else when the tv is on. Sometimes I try to feed him when Jeopardy is on and it doesn't work. He eats for 2 seconds and then watches tv... eats for 2 seconds and then watches tv again.
Porter really likes faces. If your face is within reach of his hands he will have a grip of something before you realize it. It usually hurts too.

Porter weighs 20 lbs. 6 oz. I don't know how tall he is but he seems pretty big. He is wearing mostly 12 to 18 months clothes because of his length. It is so crazy to see him in outfits that Carson wore when he was walking.
Porter is pretty sick right now, and we just hope that he gets better soon.

Porter we love you. You crack us up every single day when you chase the little toy balls around like a cat. You paw at them, then chase them and repeat until we let you. It also cracks me up how you always find the boingy door stopper, even though it is kind of hidden, and are entertained for a long time. I love your huge grin that goes from ear to ear and the squeals of excitement that you let out all day. I love how when you are sleeping your bottom lip curls out. You have such a fun, bubble littel personality and just LOVE attention. I love it. Happy 8 months, PoPo.