Tim is 8 months old

At 8 months, Tim is on the verge of crawling. He will get up and down on his knees and rock back & forth. Poor guy just wants to hang with the big kids. He can get around quite well with his "modified crawl." I call it that because it doesn't quite resemble Ashton's military crawl but more of a modified crawl on his stomach. He still loves to eat and definitely prefers real food. He follows in his sisters footsteps with great hand-eye coordination. The kid can eat anything he wants! Including a yucky spiderweb while crawling around yesterday. Ick! Today he got a taste of the "big kids" favorite, artichokes! He has started "talking" a little and can say, dadada and to my delight recently started with mamama! He will also babble, bababa even though he rarely has a bottle. Must just be developmental sounds. Let's see... what else?! He still has yet to permanently sleep through the night but this Mama is days away from letting him cry it out at night. He will sleep from 7pm until around 3-4am. And then is usually up bright and early at 6am! I know he can do it because after the time change he slept from 6pm-7am (yes!) one night and 7pm-7am the following night. Other than that, he continues to be an easy going happy boy! He loves to watch everything that is going on and is rarely still for any moment. He is always turning around when you are holding him to make sure he doesn't miss a thing! I can't believe he is almost a year old!