Eight Months

Happy Eight Months Birthday Lollypop!!!

Dear one dear one!  Where to start.  It has been a busy month for you!

You have your First Tooth!  It broke through on 4/12/10.  Ohhhh, it gave you fits.  And its next door neighbor (these are your bottom front teeth) is trying to make its way up through your gums currently, and isn't being much nicer to you.  Add to the teething issues, you've battled a cold for the past almost 3 weeks.  You're beginning to get better now, else I'd be getting worried.  But, this has been a doozy of a cold.  You've had a runny nose for weeks, and quite frankly, you're sick of it!

A few weeks ago, you got to a sitting position all by yourself for the first time.  :-)  It was in the cry room at church, and Sister Donna and Sister Heather (along with Jaxsen and...  uh oh, I can't remember which of Heather's babies was in there...  Probably Wyatt) were in there to see it.  So proud of you!

Your sweet big sister helped to keep you from taking a header off the chair while I tried to get these pictures.  Your sweet big brother was the one making you laugh by going crazy with Ballerina Bunny!

You are eating sweet potatoes, yellow squash, and carrots.  Tried green peas a couple of times... ha!  We'll get there.  Total fail right now.  Your food still needs to be very smooth - no chunks.  I have discovered, quite by accident, that you can pick up a cheerio, but you Can Not Eat Them.  Whew.  Interesting to me, though, is that you can pick up that cheerio with your first finger and thumb.  Good hands, little angel, good hands.

You are definitely a sweet hip baby now.  You've just gotten big enough that a person can carry you around on their hip.  But the position you love best is being hoisted up tall enough so that your head is near the head of the person carrying you.  You still love the cheek-to-cheek feeling, and OH, how I love that too!

Tooter takes the most interesting pictures of you.  :-)

From time to time you'll also lay your head down on our shoulders.  Ohhhh.....  that is THE best feeling. I love it!

And, buhm buhm buhm...  you've begun to crawl.  As of today, you have this crawl on one knee, push with the other foot thing going on.  You'll get about 2 feet before you stop!  So, I suspect that by this time next month, you'll be quite the mobile little munchkin.  You're also trying to pull yourself up to standing on people, things, stuff, etc.  Such a big growing-up girl!


A video taken on 4/16/10 of your beginning crawling.  Your wanting to be just like Poodle has already begun!

I think that's all of your new tricks over the past month.  I won't even mention your sleeping this past month.  Between teething and the cold, let's just say it hasn't been great.  But, it will get better!  You're almost over the sniffles!

I love you, you sweet baby angel.  You are our favorite little squishy!!!