to otto, our 8 month old swimmer!

so even though i wrote your last letter late (only two weeks ago or so), you have done so much in that short time! you can crawl now, though you prefer to do the army crawl most of the time. you can now pull yourself up! and you have perfected your technique at getting from a laying down position to sitting. all of these new moves plus your tenacity means you can basically get anywhere and everywhere!
your dance moves now include some arm waving, and you have been doing a lot of "roughhousing". you will knock your head into my head if i say "bonk!" and you sometimes like to dive at us, burying your head into our chests or shoulders while trying to bite at us! even though you can sometimes be a "mama's boy" you seem to like to play rough...you like to wrestle and be tossed around (in a playful way, of course!). you play peekaboo with burp cloths, hiding behind them and laughing and then forgetting to peek out so that we can see you.
you had your first swimming lesson this week and you loved it. when we sat waiting for our lesson, you were very quiet and still, staring at all the other moms and babies and looking all around. but as soon as you got in the water you were so excited. you were shrieking, laughing, and going crazy! you were kicking both of your legs at the same time, and kept trying to put your face in the water.
what a happy happy boy you are!