Riser is 8 months old

Riser is 8 months old! He won't have another well-check until 9 months but we think he is around 18 pounds. He is currently in 9-12 month clothing and size 3 diapers. He popped his first 2 teeth over the Thanksgiving holiday! It made for a fussy couple days, but he is back to his sunny disposition (his nickname at home has long been solidified as Sonny). He absolutely loves being put in 'the chair' for any sort of meal/snack time. Feeding him is a lot like the Hungry Hungry Hippos game, you can't put food in front of him fast enough. He likes drinking water from his sippy cup but has a hard time holding it.

Riser has been crawling for over a month now and can practically run/crawl he is so fast. He is now pulling up on all sorts of things - the couch, the baby gate around the wood burning stove, our legs, kitchen chairs. We have dropped his crib and have officially had to put back out the baby gate for the bottom of our stairs as he is clearly fixated on mastering them next. 

As sweet as he is, he doesn't just sit back and take things in. He is very active, likes to be vocal and a part of whatever it is we are doing. It is obviously still really early to say a whole lot about his personality but at this stage he is very social and seems to think he is just as big as everyone else. Riser still takes one shorter nap in the morning and a longer one in the afternoon. He still sleeps about 12 hours at night but has recently seemed to hit the 8 month sleep regression, waking up a couple times during the night. Thankfully he gets back to sleep easily. He has been mimicking some sounds and can very clearly say 'da-da-da-da' and sometimes 'ba-ba-ba-ba' or 'ma-ma-ma-ma'.