8 Months Old/The Move

Goodbye House!

Happy 8 Month Birthday to Bryce!  He had quite a busy month!  He no longer is content in anything restraining like the bouncer, swing, or even the bumbo at times.  He loves to sit up on his own and play with toys.  He also likes to roll around on the floor.  He can get from sitting to his belly if he wants, though it's not very graceful.  No scooting or crawling yet, but while on his belly, he now pivots around and makes complete circles trying to get to things.  I'm guessing he will be on the move sometime this next month!  He still does like the exersaucer, though, which is nice.  After moving kind of slow in the eating department, he has now decided he loves to eat!  He eats all solids great, and is even already enjoying the little puffs and teething biscuits.  After being in the 10th percentile for weight a few months ago, he is chunking right up now and moving his way up the charts!  

The other big change for Bryce is that he is now in his own room with his own crib!  He was in our room at the old house up until the move 2 weeks ago, which wasn't working well for any of us anymore.  He was in a bassinet or the pack n play, and would wake up with any noise we made, and we would also wake up with any noise he made!  The first night at our new house, we put him in the real crib for the first time, expecting a long night with lots of waking up, and surprisingly he slept all night!  I guess he really just wanted a nice bed with a quiet room to himself.  

Speaking of the move, we are officially in our new house, and we said goodbye to our first house last Sunday.  It was a busy and exciting week getting everything out of there and over to the new place, but once we had a moment to walk around the last time and say goodbye, we did shed a few tears.  But we are so happy and excited about our new house, and we absolutely love it!  We still have a ton of unpacking to do, but for the most part we are starting to feel settled.  Grant loves all the space and especially thinks it's fun having our bedrooms up the steps.  He loves going all the around the house to the different rooms all day long.  He keeps saying he loves the new house!  We love playing on the deck and on our driveway, and Doug loves shooting basketball with our hoop.  We have already met a ton of neighbors, and they are all so nice and welcoming, bringing us cookies and meals, and we already know of a few little kids that are Grant's age!  We are looking forward to the 4th of July parade where we will decorate our bikes/stroller and follow the fire truck down the street.  These are the kinds of things we were looking for and hoping for our kids to have in our new neighborhood.  We are so blessed to have found this house, and we can't wait to raise our family here!