8 Months!

Oh my precious baby girl,  how in the world are you 8 months old? It seems you have grown by leaps and bounds. Just look at all you are doing. Goodness gracious, what will this next month bring!?!

At 8 months you are:

•  Still nursing
•  Wearing size 2-3 diapers
•  Sleeping from about 8:30pm to 7:30am. Woot Woot!
• Napping 3X a day. You usually take two 1.5 hour naps and one  45 minute nap.
• Crawling (on all fours with tummy off the ground).
• Standing independently for a 5- 10 seconds at a time.
• Pulling up (and lowering yourself cautiously instead of plopping to the ground).
• Walking around the coffee table, couch, window sill etc.
• Imitating (you like to click your tongue, blow raspberries, wave bye, pat etc. when we are doing it).
• Waving "bye-bye" 
• Have tried sweet potatoes, carrots, squash, green beans, peas, peaches, pears, apples, strawberries,bananas, mango, prunes, pineapple, oranges, yogurt, and oatmeal.
• Starting finger foods (Puffs and yogurt melts are the best! They entertain you for a VERY long time).
• Saying "mama" and "bye-bye".
• Way more interested in objects around the house like wires, shelves, outlets, cat food etc. than your toys
• Miss Personality, and have about ten million different facial expressions
• Super happy unless, you are tired or hungry (and look out if she is...she will let you know).
• Still belly laughing all the time, but have added a new sort of amused giggle. Cracks. Me . Up.
•  Working on your pincer grasp, and doing pretty good at getting food into your mouth.
• A little Ham out in public.This makes shopping great for Mommy since you love to interact with other people
• Still fighting sleep, but not near as bad.
• The sweetest gift we could have ever gotten.

 Here is a video of P enjoying her sweet potato puffs. Just in case your wondering,  yes, that is a bathtub behind Presley. She can't stand to be still, so it makes getting ready extremely difficult for me. I've found that a highchair + Puffs =  a much better makeup job.
 

and here is  P waving "bye bye".  Also, pardon the horrible lighting. It was taken with my phone.

Outakes. Getting a decent picture is becoming a MAJOR challenege.

We love you so much Sweet P, and continue to thank God every day for Blessing us with you.