8 Months Old!

Amaris is 8 months old today! YAY! You've been alive for 8 months Amaris - can you believe it?! We've had a great first week with our daughter including barfing and teething... Hasn't adjusted back to sleeping through the night. But we've tried Camilla teething stuff and Motrin and it is helping! But she wakes up when it starts wearing off.... About 4 hours after she goes to bed. Which is generally after we have gone to bed. Grrr. Today she was totally awake by 6:30 - I like when the time starts with a 7. Luckily Jon was taking the morning 'shift' so I could sleep a bit longer. She's still soaking in her morning nap.

Makai'o has had some great visits this week. He has been much more calm and has found amusing himself very easy in our home. We also haven't had to turn the TV on once - which I love. It will make movie time with daddy very special. He has been doing so well with his naps. Biting is his number one issue that we are trying to curve. So far time outs aren't really working so well for him. We are working on it!

Placement is tomorrow and he will be home permanently. Tomorrow will be the first night the 4 of us will all be sleeping in our beds all together under one roof. We decided to separate the kids into separate rooms. Makai'o will now be in the yellow room, the former guest room. Since he is a light sleeper and Amaris is currently teething and they go to bed and wake up at different times it all makes more sense for them to have their own rooms. So Amaris will stay in the green jungle room since she has already adjusted to that room. It is also darker, which she is used to for sleeping.

Meghan bought the kids a Ball Pit. Their personal own ball pit. It's like a tent with balls in the bottom (like the ball room at McDonalds). Makai'o loves to sit in there - take all the balls out... Then pick them all up in his shopping cart then put them back in the ball pit. It kept him busy for a LONG time yesterday.

No time for pics today - but they are coming!