Solly at 8 months

How is it mid-February already? This year has been quite the whirl-wind. With all the uncertainty and negativity going on in the political world, I am thankful everyday to have such adorable kids (and a great hubby). I just hope the people in charge now do not mess up the world too much for Izzy and Solly to enjoy. 

Here is an update of all things Solly at 8 Months and Izzy at 4

• You can see from the photos below, Solly really does just smile all the time. He started off the month having a permanent puppy dog face where his tongue would just hang out. Then he changed to giving a HUGE mouth open grin...all the time. There is NOTHING better than coming home and seeing Solomon's HUGE smile. 
• He is now a master crawler and any chance he can will stand up. This could be a flat wall, the oven, fridge, the gate on the stairs, pillows, couch, etc. He LOVES to stand. This boy will be an early walker. He needs to keep up with his brother.
• He has started to babble. A lot of babababababab. We are working hard on mama. 
• We started Music Together - we did this same program with Izzy. They have 12 semesters of lessons that they rotate.  So it has worked out that the same songs/lessons for Solly are the same I had for Izzy 4 years ago! Solly loves the class. He is the youngest, but is mesmerized by the teacher and seems to really enjoy music.
• He is mastering eating on his own. I'd say the one time we hear him fuss and yell at us is when he's trying to say FEED ME NOW. If we don't clean up under his seat, he is sure to be down there soon to eat his scraps. 
• We've had to lower his crib x2 because he continues to stand and we are afraid he's going to fall over. 
• He does not like to be in the baby jumper or confined in any way. We just let him roam and block him off with 2 big beanbag chairs. 

Izzy & Solly

• Izzy continues to be a LEGO master. His creations are really incredible. He loves to say, "I'm following the instructions in my head."
• While Benji and i get ready in the morning Izzy now gets to watch Sesame Street. He has become a HUGE fan of the letter and the number of the day. It is 25 min of a little break so we only have 1 kid to watch and get ready.
• Izzy started Piano lessons! I was actually trying to push him to take Taekwondo and was bugging him to check out a trial lesson and he would always come up with an excuse of why he did not want to leave the house and do a trial. I finally dragged him to just watch kids in class and he would not even walk in the building. After dragging him through the studio like a good mother and to the car, he finally exclaimed, "Mommy, I don't want to do taekwando, I want to take piano." Oh. I wish he said that in the first place. 
• He continues to love space, superheroes and Starwars. He has added a lot of talk about Volcanos to his favorites.