8 Months Old

I know I say it every month, but I can't believe she is already 8 months old. Addie is so much fun now, she and I play all the time. She LOVES food and feels the need to eat every time anyone else is eating unless she just ate. She starting eating chicken and turkey this month and it really makes feedings stretch out longer. I was nursing her around 8 or 9 times a day last month, but since I started doing 3 meals with her I only have to nurse her 4 or 5 times usually-Addie has a very healthy appetite! :) She doesn't love her cereal as much anymore since she has had a taste of everything else. She really likes to eat avocados, tomatoes, baby cookies, and is ecstatic when I give her fresh peaches. The doctor said I can start her on baby yogurt, orange juice, tomato juice, beans, and any soft fruits and veggies. Addie LOVES tomato and orange juice. She has never really liked juice and drinks water really well, but she can't get enough of tomato and orange... isn't that crazy? She really enjoys it.

Addie is pulling up but only in her pack and play and in her crib. She thinks she is SO big. She recently also starting going from a sitting position to on her hands and knees, but she can't figure out what to do with her feet. Her feet still stay like they were when she was sitting so it looks like she's doing some yoga position or something. She is really bad about lunging forward from a sitting position to get whatever she wants in front of her. I have to really watch her when she is sitting on the couch or changing table when I am drying her off from her bath because when she sees something she wants she tries to get it. Addie also scoots all around our sink on her little bum to get things that are on the counters or in the other sink, but she doesn't scoot on the floor yet. Soon I will have to start baby proofing our house, yay. :(

Addie is very verbal about things. She likes to mimic sounds and says mama, baba, geegee, along with some others. Jarom is really trying to get her to say dada, but no luck yet. She squeals when she is tickled, laughs so hard now, and loves to play games. She really thinks its funny now to throw a blanket on her head and say "where's Addie?" and then she will pull it off and laugh. Addie is very nosy and has to know what is going on all the time. She loves to peep around things to look at people and really looks for people or things when they disappear. She will almost fall out of her chair trying to see someone if they go around the corner and throws her toys then peeps over to look at them in the floor. She loves to be read to and her favorite book is "the very quiet cricket". She anticipates the last page where the cricket starts chirping and gives the biggest grin when we get to that part.

I am working on making her room a little more girly. Mom says I don't have it fun for a little girl and that it is too "grown up" so I bought some really bright daisies for her room and some daisy prints. I also bought some letters to do her name on the wall and am taking scrapbook paper and covering them, so far I have finished the "A" and the "D" and it took over an hour... but its super cute. I put the daisies in a vase and placed them in Addie's room when she was down for a nap and when she woke up I started out of the room with her when the flowers caught her eye. She gave me the biggest grin and kept alternating looking at the flowers and grinning and then looking at me and grinning. She loves bright colors. I'll have to post some pictures of the finished room whenever I complete it.

Addie passed out after a long day

Addie is my little parter each and every day. She will go anywhere and doesn't seem to mind it. Last night we took her to a Vipers football game, which is played indoors and so is really loud. The whole time she just took it all in and would get loud with her chitter chatter when everyone got excited and just really did well. The people in front of us kept saying "I can't believe how calm and good she is during all of this". She will shop with me until I am ready to go home (which is quite a feat if you ask Mom, Katie, and Jarom) and I found that if I put her in the buggy where all of the stuff normally goes and give her a few toys she will entertain herself for hours. She played and played while I browsed through Hobby Lobby Friday and did well at Old Navy too afterwards.

Addie is getting so long and big. At her sick visit to the doctor last week she weighed 14 lbs 14 oz with clothes and diaper after lunch. I was worried Addie was eating too much, since she eats constantly it seems, but the doctor said she is fine and to feed her 3 meals a day if I have time and if not, feed her 2 and nurse her more. She is better about sleeping at night now and takes two naps and an occasional short third nap, so I think we are all happier. I am excited that the holidays are just around the corner, it seems that once labor day gets here everything goes really fast. Before I know it, Addie will be a year old.

Addie with Daddy's cereal bowl on her head, silly Daddy