At 8 months, Dalton is 18 lbs (30%) and 28.25″ (75%) and starting to speak up a little bit.
While he doesn’t have any real consonants to speak of yet, he is learning intonation and tempo, and starting to add to the conversation.
We’ve been impressed this month with how much Dalton can get around just by rolling! He’s definitely testing the next step by getting up on his arm and stretching his back, but no attempts at crawling yet.
Dalton has been snively ever since his sister first went to school, but midway through this month we had our first scare with a real illness. After an atypical outing to a place with a number of older kids, Dalton developed what we believe to be a minor case of Hand Foot Mouth disease. It started with a mid-grade fever and then we noticed white sores in his mouth. Unfortunately, the fever started the day before Mommy had to go on a work trip, so I was worried about Dalton (and Daddy) while unable to do anything about it. Thankfully, it went away before we even had the chance to go see the pediatrician, and Dalton handled it with the cool and calm he does pretty much every situation.
Daddy did end up surviving my 5 day trip, but my milk supply did not. It dropped by 25%! Unfortunately, while Dalton is eating a lot of solids (still from a spoon) his milk intake has not declined at all, so we will continue to rely on the generosity of our friend to keep him fed without supplementing with formula.
One final milestone to note is that at the end of the month Dalton dropped his 3rd nap, so unfortunately, now he and Sonia don’t sleep at the same time anymore 🙂