- Hi guys, welcome back to my channel.
Today's video is going to be Jackson's eight month update.
And I know I say every update,
but I cannot believe that he is eight months old.
I think I'm gonna blink and he's gonna be one.
And he is doing so, so much now.
The first thing you may notice about this update video,
is that Jackson is not in it.
And that is because
it's getting really difficult to film with him.
He is just bouncing around, jumping around,
grabbing my hair, grabbing the camera.
He's gotten to the age where I think I can't film with him.
So what I'm gonna do for this update
is talk you through what he's been up to,
and then put lots, and lots of cut-ins in of him
so you can see what he's doing and how he's looking now.
So in the past month,
Jackson has been talking more and more.
He says Da-Da now, and he also says Ma-Ma.
I feel like he says Ma-Ma when he's upset.
Like when he's crying, he's like Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma,
and when he's happy he says Da-Da-Da.
Which is just typical, isn't it?
But he's definitely just becoming more aware
of the noise he can make.
Like he loves the sound of his own voice.
He makes noises all day long.
And if we're out shopping sometimes,
he will just start shouting
and screaming like out of nowhere and just being noisy.
So he will fit in really well in this family.
He's also belly laughing so much now.
He did laugh before, but now he is really,
really laughing to the point where he will
give himself the hiccups from laughing so much.
And if I am on the phone or talking to someone
and I laugh, he will copy me.
He will pretend laugh.
Like obviously he doesn't know what we're laughing about,
but he will start laughing when I laugh as well.
Which is really, really cute.
He's also shaking his head loads
all of the time to me and his brothers.
I'm trying to teach him how to nod as well,
but he hasn't quite got there,
but he shakes his head no all of the time.
Physically he is sitting up like a pro now.
I can sit him down and not worry about him
falling back and bashing his head like he did before.
And he can go from sitting to crawling
really quickly on his own again
without face planting the floor.
He's crawling really, really well,
but it's still like an army crawl along the floor,
rather than a proper crawl on his knees.
He also really loves his walker.
We have an old one that was both
Fraser and Caleb's before him.
But I got it out of the garage and I put him in it
and he literally knew exactly what to do.
He has been running around the wood floors in our kitchen.
So we're really, really pleased that he likes it.
The only down side to that is
now he doesn't seem to love the Jumperoo
since he's been in his walker
and been mobile and able to get around.
If I try to then put him in his Jumperoo,
he just gets frustrated
and he wants to be able to move around.
So although he's only eight months old,
I think I may have to get rid of the Jumperoo already.
He also randomly really likes
to be held upside down (laughs).
And he also loves when you blow raspberries on his tummy.
Now that he's eight months old,
he's able to play with toys a lot better.
So he will sit happily playing with a basket of toys,
and he can now pickup a toy, look at it really well,
and then put it back down, and then pickup another toy.
So that's really nice.
And I would say that his favorite toys
are the walker that I said, also his V-Tech Walker.
Which basically makes loads of sounds and has lights on it,
and lots of things like little hinged doors
and things like that on it that you can move.
He loves that, and he also loves anything shiny.
I think I said before he's like a magpie.
Any shiny screw on a toy
or like, I don't know,
shiny bits on our radiators or doors,
he seams to really, really like.
So he likes,
like he's got a toy that's like a toy bell,
but because it's shiny, he likes it.
Keys as well, he loves my keys.
He also loves the swing at the park,
so much, that I actually bought him
his own little baby swing to have at home.
I found it on Amazon, I think it was about 60 pounds.
But he loves it so much, so we have it in the garden
and he goes in it all the time.
And he also still really loves bath time.
Although he's still only eight months,
he's starting to not enjoy being in his infant car seat.
He really likes being sat bolt upright.
So when I lay him back into the car seat,
he always gets angry.
So I have to always give him loads of toys
to keep him going.
He would much rather be sat bolt upright in the buggy.
Even when I try to like recline the buggy,
he doesn't want to do that.
He wants to be sat up like looking around all of the time.
He still loves his food, and eats pretty much anything.
He is doing baby-led weaning and purees still.
And he's becoming really good at
actually eating and taking food down.
I can now make him like a little half a sandwich
and him actually eat quite a lot of the sandwich.
The other day we went out and I gave him a sandwich,
and at the end of the meal,
I was looking under the highchair
for where parts of the sandwich had gone.
But he had actually eaten so much of it.
Also drinking more water now if I offer him a beaker.
I have noticed he is definitely
taking more down than he did before.
And I'm trying to remember,
like if I give him a snack at ten,
like a little baby biscuit or something,
to also offer him a drink.
Because he is still breast fed,
but he is definitely feeding less throughout the day.
In terms of sleep,
Jackson is doing really, really well.
He is sleeping straight through.
So he normally goes down at 6:30.
I don't seem to be able to keep him up past 6:30.
He is so tired by then.
So I put him down then
and he will sleep straight through until 5:30 a.m.
And at 5:30, he will wake up and I will feed him.
A lot of the time he goes back down,
but there have been a few times
when he doesn't go back down.
And that is him like for the day.
Which is not ideal,
but I'll take it because he sleeps all the way through.
I've also dropped his crib down to the lowest setting.
We did that as soon as he was seven months actually.
But I think I forgot to mention it in his last update.
But as soon as he was crawling really well,
we were like just to be safe,
we'll just drop the crib right down.
And I've got some mesh sides for the crib.
They are breathable and they just stop his hands
and feet from going through the sides of the crib,
because his arm did get stuck once.
And I had them previously from his brothers.
The biggest change developmentally this month
has probably been the fact that he is suffering
from a little bit of separation anxiety.
Or I know people also call it playing strange.
When he goes a bit funny
when I try to hand him over to someone
if I need to do something,
or even just to go to the loo now.
If I hand him even to my husband Matt,
I hand him over and I walk away,
he will start to cry.
And even sometimes if he's on his play mat
and it's just the two of us in the room,
and I go off to the toilet, he will cry.
So he's definitely suffering from separation anxiety
and apparently that is because
he's now realizing that we are separate people
and that we're not like attached.
So, he's going through that and both of my boys did.
I remember my other boys being like
the worst at about like nine months old.
And because I do spend
obviously every minute of every day with him,
and I don't leave him much
because I'm just enjoying him so much,
I think he is having a little bit of separation anxiety.
He also now will launch for me.
So if my husband is holding him,
or someone else is holding him,
and he decides that he wants me,
he will like lunge to come to me.
Which is actually really cute,
he kind of like goes for me now.
He still has beautiful, big blue eyes.
He is still very long
and he has lots of dark hair coming through.
He's definitely darker than my other sons were.
They were both blonde at this age.
So I'm thinking he's going to be like this tall,
dark and handsome, blue-eyed man one day.
He has four teeth now and he is dribbling all of the time,
so I'm expecting more to come as well.
I definitely need to baby proof the house a bit better.
He is now interested in plug sockets, doors,
and we don't even have a baby gate on the top stairs.
So I need to do all of that.
If you'd like to see a video
on how I'm going to child proof the house,
let me know in the comments.
- [Fraser] Ooh, he's in the spice rack.
- He's still really, really happy.
He's really chilled out,
he still loves his brothers.
And he's just really adaptable.
We've been on a couple of weekends away,
and he's been able to sleep well.
And I guess because he's the third child,
he has just learned to be able nap anywhere, eat anything.
Yes, but that is pretty much
all of the new things that he is doing this month.
I hope you like this video.
Please give it a big thumbs up if you did.
And I will link all of his previous updates
and all of my pregnancy updates
in the description bar below.
If you want to go back
or you have different aged babies,
definitely go and check those out.
And thank you so much for watching
and I will see you in my next video, bye.