Our friend Stacie in Brooklyn took this picture of her sweet new babe, Annabel, and I had to share it. Not only because Annabel is such a cutie-pie but because this is kind of the essence of newborn babydom, no? Congrats Stacie and Jerry! We can't wait to meet her.

9 months old tomorrow

Less than a week later and he's practically an old pro...

Nothing like a good cuddle with your baby.

Turn, turn, turn...

Augie in spring at 8 months

Augie in fall at 3 months

Traded in the leaves for cherry blossoms

First swing!

We went to the little park down the street and August got his very first swing ride. He looks pretty nonchalant here but there were giggles aplenty. He also got to watch all the other kids n' babes doing their thing, which his new fave thing.

Deer Lake Park

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Standing by himself, taking little steps while you hold him, crawling backwards, and he rolled over to Chris this morning and said "da-da" clear as day. Were thinking it may have been purely coincidental but you never know. It's so fun to see that he's at the stage now when you ask him where Mama, Dada, birdies, trees, Sophie, the fishies and his Little Monkey are, he looks right away at the right thing. Little sponge. 

Happy little man

Month 8 photobooth

So, yeah. Between travel and sickness and life, we missed last month's photobooth but here's month 8 in all its squirmy Augie glory. As you can see, he's harder to hold on to these days. He's working on his 8th tooth, standing, taking steps, and seems to want to skip crawling altogether. He's such a ham and discovers more of the world each day.

look who's standing

Just figured it out last week and now he's super into it. Doesn't hang much in the PP but it's great for safely practicing standing with soft landings. 

cherry blossoms, eight months

They've officially exploded in our neighbourhood! August had his first close encounter yesterday and sniffed, touched and tried to eat a few. Augie turned 8 months old yesterday. I can't believe how quickly the time's gone.