8 Months Old!

Yesterday little Caleb turned 8 months old! It is hard to believe that we carried him out of the orphanage two months ago. In many ways it feels like he has always been with us, yet he seems to change every day!

We have seen so many changes in Caleb over the past two months. He has made huge strides in his attachment and bonding to us. We are able to clearly see on a daily basis that he prefers us and finds happiness and comfort in us as his parents. This has been the biggest reward of being new parents. One of my favorite things about our sweet baby boy is when I am cradling him and either rocking him to sleep or giving him a bottle. Caleb likes to take his little hands and gently play with my hair or touch my cheek. He really melts my heart!

Caleb still has 5 teeth but #6 and #7 are clearly about to make their debut. He has teeth coming in on both the top and the bottom so he'll be ready for a steak in no time! We have been so impressed by how good natured he is despite the teething. I can't imagine how painful that must be to have all those teeth coming in at once, and he continues to be a smiley, playful baby as long as he's getting his Tylenol on schedule! :)

As a result of the teething, Caleb is making a lot of new funny little noises with his mouth. My favorite one is a little clicking noise especially since he seems to do it with a beat! He sounds like a little human metronome.

Caleb is getting to be a big boy! He is still not a roly poly baby, but he definitely has some meat on his bones now! When I am holding him and looking down at his face, he looks like a different baby than the one I cradled in Kyrgyzstan two months ago. He has fullness in his cheeks and we can see little rolls in his legs and pudginess in his fingers. We are so glad to see him gaining weight and doing well! As of today when I took him in for another round of vaccines (poor baby!) he was 15 pounds 7 ounces and nearly 28 inches long. So overall that means he's gained 4.5 pounds and grown three inches in 2 months! Holy Cow!

Sadly this post will not have any pictures as our laptop is 'at the doctor'. It must have a virus or something so Bryan took it up to the hospital where the medical school computer peeps will take a look. It kind of cracks me up that our sick computer is literally at the hospital to get better!

As soon as our laptop is feeling better I'll be sure to post Caleb's Christmas card picture and some more photos of our little 8 month old!