Tate update

Tate turned 8 months old over the weekend.  I cannot believe it's been 8 months since he was born.  Time goes too quickly.  It's almost time to start planning a birthday party!  Crazy.

Looking at Tate now you'd never know he started out so tiny.  He's getting so big.  He is sitting up on his own now, and rolling over back to front.  He loves sleeping on his tummy.  (Not surprising since he always rested well that way in the NICU). As soon as you lay him down now, he rolls over to his side or tummy.  The only problem is he still isn't very good about rolling tummy to back, so when he wakes up he gets flustered and mad that he can't roll over.  So there's no chance of him soothing himself back to sleep! 

Poor little man has been struggling with a sinus infection for over 2 months now.  He is just finishing up his second round of antibiotics today, so hopefully he's kicked it this time.  As soon as he starts the medicine, all the symptoms go away immediately.  But last time it all started back up within  days of finishing the meds.  And that was his 4th time to have a cold. 

The sinus infection has put a temporary delay on eating solids.  I'm still offering him some, but for whatever reason, he is not interested in them at all anymore.  He loved the eggs the first few times, but now can't stand them. Same for bananas and avocados.  He gags and chokes on the food a lot as well. So I think at this point we'll just put it away and try again in a week or two. 

Tate loves his big brother and loves to play with him.  Hudson is still learning the meaning of "gentle" but he's getting better (slowly).  Tate doesn't usually mind too much though.  It's a little more dangerous now since he's sitting up though cause Hudson will try to hug or kiss him, and it knocks Tate off balance and he falls over.  But he's learning. 

Months ago Tate started sleeping through the night, but that only lasted a few weeks.  After he caught his first cold he quit that and hasn't gone back to it yet.  Then he was just getting up once a night, but currently, it's been 2-3 times a night.  We are convinced there's got to be some teeth coming in, but no evidence of it yet, except all the drooling and chewing on toys/fingers/whatever he can get in his mouth.  I think now it's just habit for him to wake up at night, so we I (who am I kidding, Jamie doesn't get up with him at night anymore!) am going to start trying to soothe him back to sleep, instead of nursing.  He usually falls back asleep within a minute, so I don't think he's hungry.  Maybe once a night, but not 3 times a night! We'll see how it goes.  He still hasn't developed a nice long day time nap - usually just an hour.  So hopefully that will start soon.  Part of the problem, I know, is our schedule and not being at home to put him down at the same time every day.  That's hard when it's summer time - but easier when it's too hot to even go outside by 10 am everyday!  So we're working on it.  He actually has taken one good nap today, and is down now, for another one, so maybe I spoke too soon!  He has started developing an earlier bedtime too (again, if we're home to put him down by 8 pm).

Although I'm sad he's getting so big already, I am excited for him to start crawling, eating and "talking" in the next few months.  It's so fun to see his personality emerge. He's got quite the grin and facial expressions.