EIGHT Months Old!!
Only 4 more months and then we have a ONE YEAR old? I cannot believe it. I've already started planning your party :)
Things just keep getting better and better with you. The past two months I can often be heard telling people that "we have the best.baby.EVER." It's true, we do!
At EIGHT months, you:
Have now had green beans, peas, sweet potatoes, carrots, squash, bananas, & pears
Sleep ten to TWELVE hours a night (she get it from her mama!) :)
Have started trying to play with toys
Got your 2nd haircut on July 20th
Are quite possibly starting to get your 2nd tooth!
Will put one foot in front of the other when we hold you to "walk"
Are getting more sturdy standing
Still are not entirely trustworthy sitting up alone
Much prefer your bottle over food
Cannot resist drinking out of our glasses (or the ends of our straws)
Are holding your bottle a little better (because I'm forcing you)
Your hernia might be getting smaller
Are more difficult to take places as you don't sleep at all when there's action
Started scratching the back of your throat like your Mama, aunts, and Grandpa Doc
Are ravenous when home from daycare no matter when you last ate
Are starting to like sitting in your jumperoo
Are starting to explore more with your hands
Usually play by yourself when you wake up until we come get you
Seem to be getting longer by the day
LOVE to kick your legs - nonstop!
HATE being on your tummy
Do not roll back to front
As far as a schedule, on daycare days we wake you up around 6:45 and change/dress you and take you to daycare. (Not sure about your schedule there). We then pick you up between 4:00-5:00 and bring you home and you usually eat 6-8 ounces, play for a little bit, and then naptime from 5:30/6:00 - 7:30/8:00. Sometimes we wake you and others you wake up on your own, but we then try to eat some food and play for a little bit. Around 8:00 or sometimes a little after we start bath and then a bottle around 8:30. You hang out for just a little bit and then we go lay you in your bed and you go right to sleep. We have only heard even just a peep out of you only a couple times, otherwise you must play quietly and fall right to sleep in your crib. On weekends when we don't have to wake you up, you will sleep 10-12 hours then get up and eat and usually will go back to sleep around 8:30 and sleep until 10:30/11:00. You will then be up a good part of the afternoon and take a late afternoon nap around 4:30 or so for a couple hours.
You are not a good eater. There have been more than a few nights that you just simply will not open up to take bites of food. Something tells me that feeding you might always be a challenge. We have discovered that if we trick you by filling up one of our water glasses and passing it in front of you ,you will open up every single time, while we manage to sneak in another bite of food. It took you a night or two before you figured it out, and from that point on you would make sure the glass was in swiping distance where you could get your hands on it and would then open only when we had it to your mouth. For the record, this was Daddy's idea. HILARIOUS!
So far, your favorite foods are peas, carrots, and sweet potatoes. Foods that you seem to dislike the most are peaches. And pears. And apples.
I started forcing you to start trying to hold your bottle more on your own, and if I hold it out in front of you, you will bear hug that thing and bring it straight to your mouth like you are annoyed that it is taking so long. You must have known how to do it all along because just as soon as I started it, you had it figured out and knew how to get what you wanted. Now we are just working on getting you to actually hold it the whole time you drink it.
I know it's a shocker, but you still HATE to be on your tummy. We have been working with you quite a bit to get you to roll better and to try doing back to belly but you have figured out how to avoid that. I grab your opposite arm when you are laying on your back and try to roll you towards me, and you stiff-leg your top leg so that it is impossible to get you on to your belly. Refuse to do it. And then when I force you to bend the leg so I can get you over it, you flop around like a fish out of water trying to get back onto your back. You hold your top arm straight in the air thinking that is going to help you to roll back over, and are not smart enough to figure out what to do with that bottom arm. You are one special child, I tell ya! Can we say stubborn?!?! At this rate, you are probably going to be that child that walks and just never rolls over. Hey, at least you're smart and have figured out how to get out of it. That's gotta count for something?
You have also earned a new nickname this month - Squishy. I just love to squeeze your juicy little arms and legs and your squishy cheeks get kissed more times a day than you would prefer!
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| I still love waking up to this cute little face. |
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3rd Anniversary flowers from Daddy - the 2nd
bouquet of roses he has given me...a great
surprise at work! |
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| You know I had to throw in a bath picture - girl is in her element! |
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| Rach came to meet you for the first time this month! |
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| First time sitting in your big girl highchair! |
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An out-take from our monthly shoot that
I thought was too cute not to post. This, of course,
was followed by a loud screech! |
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| Gettin' so BIG!! |
I haven't mentioned anything about it on the blog previously, but Daddy got a promotion/somewhat new job a month and a half ago! He is now a manager of the non-invasive services, so he is in charge of the Nuclear, EKG, and Holter departments. It was kind of a bittersweet thing because there were definitely perks of his old position (worked 4 10-hr days, guaranteed 40 hrs pay/week, less responsibilities, etc) but we decided that it was a career advancement that he couldn't pass up. Even though he won't have to be doing any more west routes (which is a big bonus), he now has to work 5 days a week (which is a big bummer)! It has been stressful lately because he is essentially doing both jobs at the same time because it wasn't a quit one job-start the new one kind of thing but I'm sure it will get better as time goes on. He has 2 girls at home who are nothing short of proud of him! God has done some pretty cool things with both of our careers this past year, and we are thankful for every bit of it. It is fun to think about the big picture of our careers and how we are both where we are so early in our lives when neither of us thought it was even possible just one short year ago. I still could not love my job any more than I do, and I thank God for the opportunity every.single.day that I drive to work. I still cannot believe that I have the opportunity to work where I do doing what I love so very much.
To the sweetest little girl we have ever met, we love you!
