8 Months Old

Oh how time has flown!  I have not yet come to grips that my little baby girl is already 8 months old!  She is a light in my life, constantly showing me what true joy really is, and I'm just so glad she came to our little family!

Here are the facts!

-She LOVES every food I have put in her mouth.  She gobbles up everything I have and is screaming for more when she realizes that the food intake has stopped.  Although it's hard to peg a favorite, she does really like bananas, and will now eat them in little pieces instead of pureed.  She has always preferred to feed herself, be it with a spoon or with her fingers...and she ALWAYS makes a mess.  I have yet to make it through a meal without having to wash baby food out of her hair and ears, but her independence is nice, because usually I can eat right alongside her. 

-She is almost crawling.  In fact she crawls backwards with almost perfect form...but she hasn't quite mastered the coordination it takes to crawl forward.  Though, the way her brother tackles her, I imagine it wont take long...her survival depends on it no doubt. :) 

She has 2 teeth...going on 7!!  Currently cutting 5 teeth at once...ugh.  It makes all our lives a little tricky, but she is a trooper and still sleeps relatively well, and is always offering smiles to me when she wakes in the night. 

Other loves:

-bright toys

-her brothers toys, especially the little motorcycles, she loves to chew on the wheels

-being outside!

-bath time, she splashes the water until she can't see, and even then she doesn't cry.

-being thrown in the air by Daddy.

Dislikes:

-getting dressed.  She HATES having her arms put into her shirts.  There is always fussing and crying.

-her carseat.  More fussing and crying :)  But sometimes she'll fall asleep too.

-when her brother torments her.  She will look at me with a face that says 'save me momma!'  Her brother is pretty rough on her but I feel that she will be fighting back in no time...or maybe teaching him  how to be nicer! 

All in all, she is the sweetest, most beautiful thing to enter my world and I love her more than I can put into words.  My sweet Elsie Ruth. :)