Maverick's 8 Month Stats

My little guy is 8 months old already!  Where has the time gone?  This little guy is such a hoot lately.  He is generally happy, but has had a few "fussy" periods lately.  Perhaps he'll finally get some teeth in?!?

I got his stats as the following:
             Weight: 17 lbs 10 oz
             Height: 28"

In comparison to Chandler and Brighton he is quite the peanut.  Chandler was over 19 lbs and Brighton was 20!  He doesn't seem to be any where near crawling yet, but we'll see.  We might end up having to place a gate around the Christmas tree after all!  Maverick doesn't have stranger anxiety yet and loves for other people to hold him.  He likes investigating their glasses, jewelry, and earrings.  Be careful because he's been known to rip things right off and broke my mom's necklace just the other day.

He loves it when his older brothers play with him.  Chandler and Maverick especially seem to have a separate "brother" language.  Maverick is still nursing exclusively and to be honest, I've had a much more laid-back approach to introducing solids to him.  Now that he's eight months I'm starting to give him more than one meal a day and he's snacking occasionally on Cheerios and Puffs.  We've tried giving him some juice/water on a few occasions, but only a handful of times.  It's not that he doesn't like it, but he could take it or leave it for now, and I'm happy with that.

He goes down about 7:30-7:45 and is sleeping great.  Sometimes he'll wake up around 6ish, but will settle right back down and then gets up about 7-7:30 a.m.  He still naps in the morning for about 1 hour (or a little more) and then in the afternoon for about 2 hours.

I'm starting to see the light (at the end of the 1-year tunnel).  I think we're going to make it sooner than I'd like!