Eating: She still hasn't refused a single thing. My girl is serious about her food. When she's hungry, she's cranky (just like mama). She is loving all the stage 2 fruits and veggies. She's had some samples of table food, like toast and potatoes. She loves her snacks, too. Mum-mums and the Gerber puff things. I got her apple-cinnamon last week and she loves them. She isn't too crazy about the yogurt melts; she eats them if offered but the look on her face tells me she'd rather have something else (again, just like mama...yogurt...yuck).
Teeth: Nope. Zip. Zero. Zilch. Poor girl. I swear she was two months old when she started really gnawing on things. Once one finally breaks through, I'm sure they'll come one right after another. Some days she drools and is cranky like she may be hurting a bit, but then other days she is fine. She's about a far as she can go food-wise without any chompers, so I hope for her sake she gets some soon so she can move on to new tastes and textures.
Mobility: Non-stop. All day. Go, go, go... Mama gets worn out chasing after her. She's fast, look away for one second and she disappears. Needeless to say, we now keep all bedroom and bathroom doors closed at all times. I thought she might take her first steps on her own by eight months but she didn't quite make it. She is close though. She cruises a bit along the furniture, and she is starting to let go with one or both hands while standing. She does it in her crib over and over again: stand up, let go with both hands, stand for two seconds, wobble for three seconds, fall on the hiney, giggle, repeat. It amuses her though. She tries to climb up on everything like a little monkey. I've officially lost count of the number of head bangs now. It's crazy how much that little noggin gets in her way now that she's mobile. She needs a helmet. No matter how closely you watch, it's impossible to prevent at this stage. Or else I just really suck at this...
Bath time: Loves it more and more with each passing one! Splash, splash, splash. It's hard to get her washed now because she just wants to play. Last time, she soaked me, the counter, the kitchen floor, the dining room rug, all in a matter of a three minute bath. She is almost too big for her baby tub so soon we will be switching to the big bath. My lower back spasms just at the thought of it...
Play time: She loves her toys and really plays with them. In fact, at the ripe old age of eight months, I think she is already bored with most of them. She seems really curious to figure stuff out, but once she does she gets bored quickly. My little smarty pants. So, lately she's been playing with toy replacements for something new to do. The basket full of container lids is currently her favorite and it keeps her busy for a bit.
Sleeping: Really well most of the time. The last six weeks or so, she has been going to bed between 8:30 and 9:30 almost every night, and waking up between 7 and 8 a.m. She has a rough one here or there, but stays on schedule for the most part. Twice in the past week she has woken up in the middle of the night soaking wet. She lays on her tummy, but then pulls her knees all the way up under her and sticks her hiney in the air. Then, when she pees, it runs right out the front of her diaper and soaks her all the way to her collar bone. It takes forever to get her back to sleep after that. Now, nap time is another story. Some times they are long, sometimes short, sometimes once a day, often twice, once in a while there's three...and last Saturday there were none. That's right, I said none...no naps at all. I spent over 6 hours doing almost nothing except trying to get her to nap. I really got so upset over the whole thing. The plans for the day were shot. I felt like a bad mama for not being able to get her to sleep. Finally by 5 p.m. I gave up trying. It was too late for a nap then anyway. She actually made it up until 9 that night. It totally blew my mind that she could go that long at her age without a nap, but she really wasn't even cranky. Wish I could say the same about mama...
Misc stuff: She still insists on shoving her fist in her mouth after almost every spoonful of food (usually the right, but once in a while the left). When I grab the fist, she turns her head and licks the side of the high chair instead.
We just entered the "I need to touch my hoo-hoo every time you open my diaper" stage. Not really an issue except for the messy ones, and mama sucks at remembering to give her something to hold to distract her with before opening the diaper.
She has developed the "clingy" thing now. Before she was mobile, she didn't have much of a choice, but now when she's tired or hungry especially, she follows me from room to room like a puppy, and if I stop long enough she grabs onto my legs and whines to be picked up.
In the last two weeks, she had her first restaurant visit where she sat in a high chair like a big girl and also her first time in the shopping cart like that as well. The restaurant...not bad...the shopping cart...not such a good idea. She bent over sideways and...you guessed it...sucked on the side of the cart. Yuck! Then, as we walked through the store, she was able to reach and grab way too much stuff...and it all went right in her mouth...from fuzzy pink coat sleeves to a packet of soup mix.
She got so tall all of a sudden that she's about an eighth of an inch away from needing a new car seat...and it's not in the budget this month so I hope she slows down a bit. I wish I had updated weight/length stats, but we still have a month before the next doc visit.
Her favorite things right now are her music table, the frog stuffy she sleeps with, the old turtle puzzle thing from when I was a kid, and just about anything she's not supposed to have.
"No no no!" has quickly become the most heard phase at our house. Often followed by "Ah...Punky..." And then an occasional "What a mess..."
She still smiles so easily, and so often, and now she laughs to herself about stuff. Although it's apparently an inside joke and we have no clue why she laughed, we can't help but to start laughing with her cause she's so darn cute.
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| Eight Months |
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