Sweetest Words Ever!

We are less than a week away from Justin's 8 month mark, and I just can't believe how fast the time has gone by since he was born. This week he has started making one of the sweetest sounds that I think a baby can EVER, EVER make. My little man has started saying, "Mum-ma"!!!!!!! I am soo in love.. not that I wasn't before, but just to hear him call for me is the cutest thing and it melts my heart to pieces.

Sadly, he has been sick (respiratory virus and ear infection) for the past week and has been quite the mama's boy. I have rarely had him off my person at all (nighttime included) for a week now. 24 hours a day, he wanted to be in my arms. This is how we realized that the words he was saying were mum-ma. Anytime I would try to pass him off to Jonathan or put him down for even a second, he would start screaming and crying, "Mum-ma, Mum-ma". At first, we thought it was just a sound, but then it started becoming more clear. Still, I thought at first that he was just mumming the sound, but we really think he must know that means me because he only does it when he's NOT in my arms. Today he was feeling a bit better and was actually saying it in his highchair not crying, and it was a much sweeter sound that way. Something about him smiling while saying it melted my heart even more than crying and saying it. :)

Yesterday we even started pointing to Jonathan and saying, "Dada" to try to get him to realize the sound and who Jonathan was. He said "Baba" a time or two while we were doing this so maybe he's trying?? I bet it won't be long before he gets dada down too!!

(I have no adorable picture to share with this and I haven't taken a photo of Justin all week. He has been so snotty and gooey eyed that I figured it wouldn't be worth sharing a pic.. hopefully I will get a video of his sweet words soon!)