8 Months

At 8 months: 

Crawling (everywhere!)

Prefers to stand & cruise furniture rather than crawl

Climbing everything

Reaches for you to be picked up

 

I think he's grown just a bit!?

8 months!  I'm posting this a little late, but the pictures were taken right on time :-)  8 months have flown by!  Our little guys is developing so fast these days.  I think everyday I look at him and say "when did he learn how to do that!?" He just keeps getting better at everything he does (standing, balancing, using his hands) plus learning new stuff.  He lifts his arms up to be picked up now and reaches for you when he wants to be held.  He crawls over to me and climbs up me (possibly my favorite new skill, but also a difficult one because I'm usually in the middle of doing something). 
He is just SO much fun.  His laugh fills our hearts with happiness and his curiosity keeps us on the edge of our toes.
Our house now has these beautiful decorations called "baby gates" which we discovered were necessary as soon as we got our Christmas tree :-)
Hudson's first Christmas was fun, but unfortunately the little guy got his first fever that week which lasted 4 days ending Christmas day.  That was tough.  It's so hard to see him suffer.  We really enjoyed having so much time off with him during the holidays and are trying to get back into our normal routine again.

Christmas Morning

Santa!

Happy New Year!