Updates and Pictures

Not a whole lot has been going on at the Vossler house lately (which I think is a good thing).  Lewis did get his first tooth on Thursday, September 15.  He still only has the one and we've just started giving him baby snacks, they are like cheeto puffs, but for babies.  It's really funny to hear him "crunch" it with his one tooth.  Here's the best picture I could get of it. He doesn't really like it when I stick my fingers near his mouth.  The tooth is on the bottom gum.  I know you can't really see it, but I promise it's there!

One day last week Dan had just fed Lewis lunch and then went upstairs to study and left Lewis in the high chair to play with his high chair toys.  It got kinda quiet so Dan went downstairs to check on him and this is what he found:

Lewis was asleep!  He, of course, had thrown most of his toys on the ground, it's his new favorite game.

Here are some other pictures of the cutest, sweetest, most mobile kid in the world.

The first one is Lewis after he gets out of the bathtub.  He loves to look at himself in the mirror after bath time.  Don't know why.  We call him a baby blue burrito when he's wrapped up in his towels (they all happen to be blue).  The second is him sitting on the floor of his room before bedtime so I could take pictures of him.  I love that you can see how blue his eyes still are in this picture.

He's almost 8 months old so I'll do a weight update in a couple days.  He has definitely gotten better at crawling.  He can go anywhere he wants now, which is rough on us.  We have to constantly, and I mean constantly watch him or he'll be at the bookcase pulling books off, or he'll be at the entertainment center pushing buttons on the stereo or cable box, or he'll be climbing up on the fireplace hearth (which he's done only twice but it's scary because it's brick).  I don't know when he'll start walking but he LOVES to stand up everywhere.  He'll pull up on anything that is remotely stationary.  He's learned how to clap and very occasionally he'll wave bye-bye.  We're still working on improving the last one.  Another thing he loves is being upside down, anytime, anywhere.  He just laughs and laughs when you do it.  It's definitely a mood lifter.

More in a couple of days!

Lewis is Awesome!!

Lewis is a crazy crawler.  His favorite things to crawl for are cell phones and tv remotes.  He's also a big fan of computer keyboards.  Pretty much anything electronic has his attention.  He's not completely sturdy while he's crawling but I know it will happen any minute.  We definitely have to baby-proof the house this weekend (really I have to because Dan will be working).  The video below is of him crawling Tuesday night.  He only crawled for the first time ever this past Saturday so he's pretty decent at it.

He already wears us out because we have to constantly watch him and now that he's crawling it's only going to get worse.  Tonight he pulled himself up and was standing on the floor while holding on to the couch.  He then proceeded to "walk" down the couch to get to where I was sitting.  It was only a couple of steps but he was able to do it.  Maybe next month we'll have video of him walking!!  (I hope not though, I need more time of him being a sweet little baby)

Bath Time and Battle Wounds

Lewis is growing up to be quite the mover and shaker.  He never sits still, not even for a minute.  Since he learned to move around he's fallen off the bed and he's hit his head while Dan was changing him.  He fell off the bed on Sunday and cried until Dan picked him up and we loved on him. The changing table incident happened today.  Dan had Lewis on the changing table because he pooped and Lewis was being his wiggle worm self and wouldn't stay still.  Dan had Lewis' feet up in the air with one hand and was trying to  clean him up and put on a new diaper with the other. Dan had him almost upside down to keep him relatively still but of course Lewis loves to be upside down so he was laughing the whole time.  Dan put him down a little and Lewis scootched off the table, rolled over and hit his head on the corner of the bookshelf next to the changing table.  All while Dan was still holding his feet trying to finish changing him. Lewis screamed but was fine once Dan got him and consoled him.  Dan said it almost broke the skin and that it swelled up and was red.  By the time I got home from school it just looked like a scratch.  I took a picture of his "wound" since it was his first one.

When I got home Dan and I talked about how the was going to be the first of many incidents and that we were in for it.  He literally doesn't stop moving unless he's asleep.  He tries to crawl out of his tub, he pulls himself up on the couch, on his swing, and on his crib, he bangs on toys and throws them across the room, he's just never still.  We decided they might as well go ahead and start our file at Williamson Medical because we'll be frequent visitors.

On a different note, here is one of the first times Lewis pulled himself up into the standing position.  It was sometime last week when Dan went in his room to get him from his nap.  Lewis was just chillin there waiting for his dad.  It's fuzzy because it was taken on Dan's cell phone.

The picture below is pretty cute, it's the cousins playing in the bathtub together. We were at the lake this weekend and they needed to clean before bedtime.

Lewis' bath didn't last long because he kept trying to stand up in the tub and I wouldn't let him.  He didn't care much for me at that point.

Lewis is seven and a half months old and I can hardly believe it.  He eats anything you put in front of him and loves fruits the most.  We haven't tried meats again but we'll try again soon.  He's still toothless so he might be able to walk before he can chew food!!  He's starting to move his feet when he's standing and holding on to the couch which is scary because walking could be just around the corner.

Oh . . . I can't believe I almost forgot . . . Lewis crawled this weekend!!  Dan and I of course weren't around to see it, but it was caught on camera.  It was right after we got the the lake house.  Dan and I left Lewis and the Vossler's condo while we went to ours and got unpacked.  While we were gone friends of Ed and Lorraine put a video camera on the ground to film the kids (Lewis and Shelby) and Lewis crawled right to it.  It's all on camera.  Not the best angle because you just see his face getting closer to the video camera but still, it happened.  So, I'm pretty perturbed I didn't witness the first crawl but there's nothing I can do about it.  He crawled really well again today and we ran and got the Flip to record it but he didn't crawl well after we started filming.  We'll try to film it again tomorrow.