Kaleb at 8 months

Kaleb is growing so fast.  He is very mobile and curious and can eat with the best of them.  He is 22 pounds and in the 98th percentile for height. 

Kaleb loves food. I haven’t found anything that he won’t eat (paper included…it’s one of his favorites).  He has two teeth on top and two teeth on bottom. He can sure do a lot of damage with those four small teeth. He can chew through a carrot like a beaver and devours crackers like the are the last crackers on Earth. I am continually amazed that I can hand him a snack and within seconds it is gone. No trace of it anywhere. He hates to see other people eating without him. He can be stuffed to the rafters but as soon as we sit down to dinner he whines and whines until he has something to munch on too.

Kaleb is a very social baby. He likes to be out and about. He gets very whiney if we have been cooped up in the house to long. He is the best baby in the grocery store. He just likes to look around at all the people and see what there is to see. He is pretty tough too. He loves to wrestle with his big brother. I love to watch them roll around and giggle. Sometimes I will be watching them and I think, “Austin that’s too rough,” but Kaleb doesn’t seem to mind.

Kaleb is very mobile these days. He is crawling all over the place. He can climb up the stairs (he can do it in record time if everyone is upstairs and he got left downstairs by himself). He can pull himself up to things pretty easily and has recently started to try and stand on his own.

His little smile and laugh just brighten my day. He has the sweetest little smile that is even cuter because of his big cheeks. The thing I love most about his chunkiness is that he is so snuggly. He loves to snuggle with his blanket.  He loves that blanket almost more than he loves me.  He buries his face in it when he is getting tired and he will not sleep without.  Needless to say we don’t leave home without it.  One time Kaleb was ready for a nap but his blanket was being washed.  Vance said, “we have a thousand blankets, just give him a different one.”  My reply was, “you just don’t understand blankies, do you?”  He responded, “no I don’t!”.

We love our sweet Kaleb.