8 month mark

This little happy guy sitting in front of his brother is now 8 months old. Yep, happy although he is still getting over his cold. It was our first experience of having two very sick kids at the same time. It has been rough but it makes me extra grateful when they are healthy. Thank goodness it is almost done with. Anyway, back to my post. Kaipo is such a joy to our family. He still is not crawling yet, unfortunately. Or maybe it's a good thing he isn't. Once he starts, he will be getting into everything (which really doesn't make a difference with his tornado brother) but the main thing I dread is him being more prone to picking up germs.
Kono didn't crawl until he was nine months and neither did he start walking until he was 14 months but the cool thing is that he is very fast, coordinated and athletic now. So I have hope for Kaipo. All he does is kind of scoot around and attempt to grab things out of reach.

He did learn to clap yesterday. He likes to try to talk and his favorite thing to say is "Da-da". He gets so excited when he sees his daddy. He also loves to pound things and has two teeth now. He knows how to give fives and shakes his head no.