8 months

Caden turned 8 months old on March 22.  Here's what he's been up to:

• He's a big eater (as if you can't tell).  He will sometimes eat 3 containers of the stage 2 baby foods at once.  (Doesn't eat peas and can't eat sweet potatoes)
• Such a happy baby-- usually only cries when hungry or sleepy.
• Sleeps from about 8:30pm-6:30am.
• Goes to sleep as soon as we lay him down in his crib even if he wasn't acting sleepy before (He's so easy--I'm aware that it won't always be this way.)
• Not crawling yet, but he tries.  He'll spin around in a circle on his pot belly, and he'll kind of crawl backwards. 
• Still loves to stand.  Will pull to stand on me but not on furniture or anything else yet.
• Waves hello/goodbye (it's amazing how proud this makes you as a first time parent)
• I pretty sure he's starting to understand some of the signs we use (milk, eat, and more) but he's not actually signing them to us.
• Loves playing with buckets and taking everything out of it a piece at a time.
• Babbles a lot
• Starting to show a little stranger anxiety.  He doens't cry or get upset, just has a concerned look on his face instead of his usual smile. 
• I think he weighs about 20 lbs.