crawling

Timothy has turned into quite the busy boy! He has mastered the army crawl so well, that I don't know if he will ever get up on all 4's. He is so fast, and into EVERYTHING! Today I put him down in the kitchen to make his bottle and he crawled straight to the dog water bowl. I have to be careful upstairs when I get the boys ready because he heads straight to the stairs. He can get anywhere he wants to go and many times gets himself into some interesting things! He had tubes put in his ears just over a week ago and I think it was the right decision for him. He is sleeping through the night (although still cat napping during the day...) and is overall more pleasant acting. He rarely pulls at his ears and before tubes, he was a cranky mess and always pulling at them. He has one tooth up top, one on the bottom and he is working on the other two. Both his teeth on the right side are in, so I guess both of the left side teeth will come in together too. He is still not crazy about anyone holding him but mommy. He gets up about 6:45 everyday and he takes about 3 forty minute naps. I am sooooo ready for 7:00 bedtime it isn't even funny! He loves to eat- I mean really LOVES it. If the boys eat a cookie near him, he practically attacks them to get his hands on it. He loves all his baby foods and is into the gerber biter biscuits and crackers also. Of course, he loves the occasional bite of a popsicle, too! He is a pretty happy boy these days, which makes for a happy mama. He is still just babbling "da-da" and he also makes a weird growling sound all the time that I like to call his lion sound. Here is a video of him crawling for a hammer. My boys have always been very "boy!" Timmy is 8 months old and prefers this hammer to anything else that we have!

I guess I should mention that we tried to switch Timmy to regular formula with no luck. He started spitting really bad again and getting cranky. His reflux starting acting up really bad and we have had no issues with it for a long time. So, we switched him back to the world's most expensive formula and I guess we are going to stick with it until he is one. I am really worried he will not be able to drink milk when he turns one, and I have no idea what I will put him on. I guess I have 4 months to figure it out! On a side note, Andrew ate mac and cheese the other night (not a lot, and there was not a lot of milk in it...) and he did fine! So, a few nights later I tried to give him hamburger helper which had a significant amount of milk in it (2 cups worth.) The poor kid got so sick and was hanging over the toilet trying to throw up. It was heart breaking. So, we won't be trying anymore milk products with him for awhile! My poor children and their issues with milk!