William is 8 Months Old!

William gained a whole pound in the last month.  He is up to 19.8 pounds.  He is outgrowing all his 9 month clothing, fitting 12 month clothing at this point.  I think it is more the clothes than the size of Will, based on his percentiles.

William made a huge accomplishment this month.  He learned to crawl forward!  He is now everywhere and into everything.  He has learned to pull himself up using anything...including the wall.  He has learned to test the stability of surfaces before he using them to pull himself up.  He holds onto the couch and walks along it to reach things sitting on the seat.  He now prefers to be standing, so he crawls from one standing point to another.

Here is the day he first learned to crawl forward.  We played fetch with him :)

But William only does enough to get within reach of his toy.

One week later, Will is a crawling fool!

And he is crawling in Daddy's footsteps

We've lifted everything up out of his reach the best we can.  However, there are still a ton of cords for the TV and Computer.  For now, we gate him into an area surrounded by pillows.  Then if we walk out of the room, he just hangs out on the wall (or the pillow).

Other cute things he's done this month.

We caught him with his Poo Face.  You'll know it when you see it.

He started saying Yum! after every bite when eating.

And some random cute photos of Will throughout April: