Daniel is still crawling backwards, but he manages to scootch forward sitting on his bottom.  I placed him in the pen with his back to the pillow in the corner and he’s scootched out to past the middle.  Here is a little playing action.

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Daniel has really been working on crawling lately.  His front has all the moves, but the backend hasn’t quite got it all figured out.  The only problem is, the scooting he currently does is backwards!

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Daniel loves this lamb from cousin Rachel.

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Daniel is talking to the trees through the deck door window.

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When Poppy and Mimi gave Daniel the piano/play table, they assumed it would be a little while before he was interested in the blocks on the other side.  Wrong!

Daniel had one last Christmas present from Poppy and Mimi that he hadn’t opened yet, so he opened it today.  Daniel loves music.

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It’s been two and a half weeks since Daniel took his last dose of his medication.  We had some hard times after that as his body went through a healing process.  Things are beginning to normalize now for the first time in his life.  This picture in his play pen was taken after his first two hour nap in his crib!

It seems like Daniel’s hair which has been dormant for so long has started to grow overnight.  He’s getting some serious curls in the back!  Daniel is sharing Mama’s water bottle.  When I drink out of the nozzle, he sucks on the handle.

When Daniel has a bath, we all end up getting a bath.

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Daniel is eight months old today.  He’s close to 20 pounds and is 28 inches long.  He has four teeth.

Here’s a video of what Daniel does when laying on top of the dryer when Mama does laundry.

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