8 Months Old

The months just fly by for this girl!  Here we are at 8mon already.  Again, no idea how much she weighs.  But I would bet big bucks she is up significantly from her last weigh in at 6mon (15lb 4oz), seeing as she is eating 1-2 times at night still and 2 solid meals a day!  She has a big ol' belly and thunder thighs, it is really cute.  

She will sit on the floor and play with toys for a while, which is really nice for me!  She sits up now with no problem, no more tipping over.  Still no crawling, she goes up on all fours and rocks, but no movement.  I'm really ok with her not crawling yet, I just know it is going to be a whole new game once she is able to get around and I am not sure I am ready for that.  She likes to sit in the exer-saucer and play, I've actually had to move it up to the next setting since she is getting so tall!  She grabs at anything and everything.  Her favorite things to grab and put in her mouth are tags, sweatshirt strings, and necklaces.  She has an extendo reach, so you have to be so careful when she is on your lap because she will tip over anything that is in front of her!

She is developing her personality more and more every day.  She loves to be by people, doesn't do so well all alone. She has started giggling and being goofy, we have gotten several videos of this.  She protests when I set her down, I usually have to just put her down near some toys and walk right away.  She will protest for a bit then start playing nice.  Brie does a couple 'tricks' now.  She will do 'so big'; if you say "How big is Brie?" she throws her hands up in the air.  She also does peak-a-boo, if you lay her down and give her a blanket, then say "Where is Brie?" she puts the blanket over her face then pulls it down and we say "peak-a-boo!!!!".  She has started babbling, so far she says ba-ba-ba and da-da-da.  I just love hearing her 'talk', it is so neat watching her discover her little voice.  Sometimes I still can't believe that she can do all this stuff, often times it seems like yesterday we were bringing her home from the hospital!  But then other days I can hardly remember what life was like before she came into our lives.

  

Briana is eating two solid food meals a day (breakfast and dinner).  I make all of her baby food, she is still only doing pureed food.  I'm not really sure when you are supposed to introduce more textures, but she still only has her two bottom teeth.  Some of the foods I have made her include: pears, peaches, sweet potato, carrots, blueberry/spinach/pear, broccoli/carrots/applesauce, and green beans mixed with cereal.  She likes to feed herself puffs, which she has gotten significantly better at putting her in mouth.  Josie used to love when she had puffs on her highchair tray because it meant she got to eat all the ones that fell on the floor (which were most of them!).  But now poor Josie just sits there and hopes she will drop one.  

Speaking of Josie, she is still not a fan of Brie.  She keeps her distance, and any time Briana reaches out for her she high-tails it out of there.  I do not for-see any sort of friendly relationship happening between the two of them, unfortunately.  

Sleeping is still not her strong suit.  She goes to bed at night around 7:30pm, usually goes down ok but sometimes cries for a few minutes.  Naps are becoming more and more of a struggle.  She screams and cries, I have to go in there a couple times and comfort her.  And then lately she has been taking SHORT naps, like less than an hour.  Not ok....especially because then she is a disaster in the evening and can barely make it to bed time.  She typically does two naps a day, sometimes more depending on when she wakes up in the morning and how long her naps are.  I've become surprisingly very unconcerned with her lack of a schedule.  I like that she can be flexible and go with the flow of whatever we are doing that day.

Alec and I love our little muffin so much, I just love watching her grow.  She's such a love-bug, she loves getting snuggles, hugs and kisses, and being held.  We are so blessed to have such an amazing daughter!