Katherine,
I cannot believe you are 8 months old today. You are such a big girl. Actually, you are still small, you only weighed 15 pounds last week, but you are growing up. You continue to be more fun each month. It is amazing how much you change.
This month you have become fully mobile. You were barely crawling and scooting at 7 months, but now you will follow me around the house. Sometimes you get frustrated if you can’t go fast enough, but you can go pretty much anywhere you want. Your favorite is to crawl into your bathroom and pull up on the tub to touch the chenille animals on your shower curtain. I have to be right with you at all times because you don’t realize that is kind of dangerous and you could fall over and bonk your head.
You are also pulling up on everything. I am amazed at how good at it you are. You pull up on the furniture, on my leg, on the fireplace, pretty much anything that will support your weight. A lot of people say that they would not be surprised if you started to walk early. I am not sure that I am ready for walking yet.
You are getting much better at eating solid foods. You have now tried rice cereal, oatmeal, sweet potatoes, avacado, carrots, peas, apples, bananas, pears and prunes. We still don’t have a consistant eating schedule, but you will eat up to three meals a day with some success. You still love to nurse though and will not take a bottle. We are working on learning to drink out of a sippy cup but you don’t quite have it down yet.
Your favorite toys are your activity table and your stuffed dinosaurs. You love to chew on them. You also love to be in your exersaucer which is good for when mommy is trying to cook dinner.
You have really learned to love bath time even more. Now you start to splash as soon as you hit the water. You also love to smile at the baby in the mirror. Even though you could take a bath in the big tub, I still use your baby tub on the counter so that I don’t have to lean over and kill my back. This means that when you splash it gets all over the mirror, counter and floor.
Changing your diaper has really become a struggle. You are just so curious that when I put you on the changing table you immediately flip over to your tummy and start to try to crawl around or grab all the things in the basket. You get so mad when I flip you back over so I can fasten your diaper. I think you would prefer to just be naked if I would let you.
You continue to stay really busy. This month we finished sign language class. You have not really started to sign back yet unless you count the time that you happened to stick out your tongue while we were in the bathroom with all the frogs. I think you were just exploring your tongue and not signing “frog”, but maybe you are just a prodigy. That would be a pretty random first sign though. We have gone shopping with Nana a few times and you are so curious about all the clothes hanging on the racks. You try to grab them as we go by in your stroller. You also love the arboretum. I think we have been there 5 times this month. I am glad we bought that membership.
You talk all the time. You are not saying anything purposeful yet, but if I listen really carefully I think I hear you say “mom”. It is so fun to hear you babble while we are in the car. I think you are talking to your bugs hanging in the car seat bar.
This month you have not been sleeping as well. You were a little sick with a cold and we traveled and it took you awhile to recover from all of that. I hope that you will get back on your schedule from before. Mommy could sure use more sleep.
I really love the way you love to cuddle. It seems that your favorite place to be is in my lap. Sometimes I get frustrated because when you are in my lap it is hard to get anything else done, but I sure try to enjoy it because I know you will not always want to climb up into mommy’s lap.
Katherine, you are such a sweet girl. I can’t wait to see what the next month holds for us.
