standing up

I love the look Julius has on his face after he stands up. He looks all around with a huge grin, seeing, I suppose, if everyone notices. Then, when we look excited, he gets even happier, and then we laugh, and then he gets crazily excited, and then he loses his grip and falls down! But he's resilient. :)

big man

not only is julius scooting around the house at a record pace, now he has started pulling up! this afternoon i caught him standing on top of a game box in front of big sister's toy bin. apparently he was trying to get to some of her toys!
he also loves to scale mommy or daddy when we lay on the floor next to him.
i honestly think he might bypass crawling just so he can chase sylvia around more effeciently.

julius will be 8 months old on valentine's day and it blows my mind! where has all the time gone?
real quickly let me add a few things:
-his favorite food right now is avocado but he's also quite fond of sweet potatoes and *cring* french fries
-he can say 'ba ba,' 'da da' and 'ma ma'
-when i hold him his new favorite thing to do is push off of me with his arms and rock back and forth and then slam his mouth on me and blow a raspberry. whenever he does this he just laughs and laughs afterwards.