Happenings with The Hills: 8 months old and counting......

Trouble maker....this sums up Beckett Allen perfectly right now. He is mobile and curious and has no respect for the laws of the Hill household. Keeping him alive is a full time job since toddler toys come disguised as tiny baby death traps!! Beckett is blissfully unaware of all dangers and continues to be the happiest little guy there ever was....that doesn't sleep!!!

Big boy car seat!

The facts: You are a happy, healthy baby boy and for that we are thankful. Since you haven't been sick we haven't been to the doctor so I have no stats on you. You are wearing all 12-18 month clothes, size 3 daytime diapers, size 4 overnight diapers, and size 4 shoes to accommodate your chunky little foot.

Teething is in full swing but you never complain. You broke through teeth #3-5 this month(front top two and bottom left).

You are a big eater!! We are still making your baby food as of now but the baby breeza recently bit the dust so jarred food is in your future. You currently eat 2 1oz cubes and cereal for breakfast and 2 1 oz cubes for lunch at school. We have started some little finger foods including banana, mum-mums, puffs, and on Halloween you had your first cracker! You continue to nurse anytime we are together and you have 3-4 bottles of pumped breast milk at daycare.

Staying warm at big brother's soccer games

Things you are doing: Getting into everything!! You are now an excellent sitter with protective extension noted with loss of balance. You are belly crawling all across the house and getting FAST. You are spending more time up in quadruped and have started rocking. You are also pulling yourself up to talk kneel and to stand. On 11/1 you transitioned from quadruped to sitting all on your own.

You have mastered clapping and waving bye bye with your whole arm. You frequently say Ma-Ma and Da-Da but you aren't directing it to us....yet!

Sleep.....what sleep!! No but in all seriousness you are a terrible sleeper. You sleep on your tummy in your crib. We lay you down between 8-9 and then you are up every 1-2 hours and cannot self soothe to get back to sleep. I either rock you, nurse you 1x nightly, bring you to our bed, or daddy sleeps with you in your nursery chair. It's time to start working on better sleep patterns but for now we rock.