8 months old

You seem to entertain us with something different with each passing week. Some examples:
-Crawling on your hands and toes
-Pulling yourself to stand on the cotsides when you awake (in the middle of the night or morning) before starting to cry or call which shocks me because I will wake up to you staring at me (thankfully we have lowered your cot)
-'Cruising' along the cotside and getting your foot stuck in the groove between mattress and cotside
-Trying to climb behind the sofa
-Making lots of noise as if trying to communicate with us
-Hold and drink from a beaker on your own and then trying to pour all the water out by shaking it vigourously
-'Lick' us good night and in the morning
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'Dou dou'

After thinking that you were going to be a quiet man, you started making lots of noise and 'talking' with us over the weekend with a husky voice, despite not being 100% well. What excited your daddy most was you calling 'dou dou da da dou da' continuously. When will it be my turn??? I need to teach you 'ma ma ma ma' :) I have been trying to video you calling but every time you see the camera you stop. We'll see what happens over the next few days. You also look like a pimply teenager with your face covered in a post-viral rash.

Growing up

I have always thought the safest place to put you in is in your cot. However, I found you like this, calling out for me a few days ago. The level of your mattress definitely needs to go down soon for me to leave you alone in your cot next time.

We have also bought you a high chair so that you can sit at the table during dinner as part of the family :) We gave you some finger food to eat at the same time while we had dinner but look at the mess you made of it. There's more than half of it on the floor. The next item to buy is a hand-held vacuum cleaner to clean up your food.

New games

As the days pass, you seem to entertain yourself and amuse us more and more, making taking care of you such joy and makes waking up 3-4x at night more bearable :) We think you play peekaboo with us by bending your body halfway to look sideways. However, you do it even when you are not looking for anybody.
Your enjoyment of bathtime and laughing with yourself in the mirror
Your love of tearing tissue and paper to bits and putting it in your mouth
This is also what you did to your cotbed headboard, which we have wrapped up nicely (to be used when we convert it to a bed in the future) when you are left inside your cot and bored. Showing your creativity or just simply because you can't reach to tear behind the cot bars?
Taking posed pictures of you when you are not distracted require some skill. You do try to smile into the camera but because you are so active and move about so much, the photos always turn out blur. Hence, most pictures of you are taken while trying to make it into a game or opportunistically when you're not looking.

Playground

After 'making' us dispose off the coffee table, you proceeded to take over the whole living room and make it your playground with toys constantly all over the place.

You can also sit very steadily now and crawling in your own way. Your latest amusement? Yourself :) We have caught you kissing and licking yourself in the mirror many times.