Houston... We Have A TOOTH!!
Finally!!! After months of fussiness, running nose and drooling so much it could fill a lake... a tooth is poking through! It's on the top right side of his mouth and it is just barely poking through but.. its finally coming through! We are so excited and hoping that they will all follow quickly from now on! (Its still to small to get a picture of so, once the tooth fully shows itself we'll post a picture for you to see.. cause I know you wanna see it!!)
Corban is 8 months! Wow.. I know I always say this but.. time flys by SO fast! He has gone from a little bundle of skin that couldn't really do anything on his own to trying to do everything on his own! This month he started crawling! And he is EVERYWHERE!! At first he would just crawl two steps and then lay on his tummy and then sit back up, get back into crawling postion and do it all over again. But now he's got it down, he is a professional crawler! Although sometimes he kind of does what we like to call the "Gollum Crawl". For those of you who have seen Lord of the Rings you have an idea what I am talking about. But for those of you who haven't, I'll explain.. Corban crawls with one knee on the ground and one knee up with his foot on the ground (and his hands are on the ground too) and he scoots himself along. Gollum kind of hunches over and creeps around similarly to that but, It's not as creepy as Gollum though, Corban is way cute when he does it!
Corban is eating alot more solid foods, including cheerios! He loves to pick Cheerios up and put them in his mouth himself because he is a big boy! Mom and Dad took him up to Big Bear, California with the Refuge youth group for camp this month. He really enjoyed himself up there! He even had his first yummy mouthful of dirt, actually he got two in his mouth before mom and dad could stop him! And he tried to go back for more.. not sure why but he seemed to think it was tasty! While up at camp Corban started saying "Mama" again (on his mom's birthday!)... he stopped for a few weeks, but he's back to saying it now!
This month he also started pulling himself up to standing on anything he can find and grab on to, including dad's leg hair! Ouch!! He loves to stand and he actually can stand by himself for about 10 seconds without holding onto anything! He so badly wants to walk but.. doesn't quite have to skills necessary to accomplish it. Mom thinks he'll be and early walker.. although everyone tells her that boys don't walk early and he'll probably walk at 13 months! She doesn't believe any of them though.. Corban is going to prove them wrong, just wait and see!
Corban got his first swimming lessons where he got dunked under the water.. he did a great job and still loves the water! Yay! He also learned how to say "DaDa" and how to wave to people! Its so cute because he puts his arm up and shakes it a little and then just leaves him arm up for a good 30 seconds before bringing it back down! Very adorable! Grandpa is so amazed by all of this waving, crawling and standing and thinks he is going to be a genius! I think so too! Stay tuned for next months update... Maybe Corban will be walking and mom can prove everyone wrong!