It is amazing what changes the last month has brought. Well, in so many areas of life, but for now I'm just talking about with Elizabeth. All of the sudden she seems so much closer to a toddler than a baby. It takes my breath away. So here are some of the things Elizabeth is doing at 8 months:
- She crawls with ease and speed. She mixes up regular crawling with using her right foot. We have had to take most of her cute dresses out of use because her knees get caught in them when she crawls.
- She pulls her self up on everything, even if it isn't stable. When she wants to sit back down or reach something on the floor she very carefully lowers herself back down.
- She can cruise along the edges of furniture, although this is not super-common.
- She suddenly is interested in looking at books, especially if they have flaps. Just 2 weeks ago she only wanted to eat them and now she turns the pages and does the flaps over and over again. (Okay, and occasionally she still eats them.)
- Similar to the above, while she does still chew on toys, she also is interested in playing with them in other ways now. Her favorite way is to bang them.
- She has suddenly started babbling A LOT. Sometimes it really sounds like she is saying words. She hardly babbled at all before the last few weeks.
- She gets up once or twice a night.
- She still prefers finger foods to all else. What she really wants is to eat off our plates.
- Her hair is getting so long that we have started trying to tie it back in various ways. These are adorable but so far we haven't had much luck keeping them in.
- She is going through a Mommy clingy phase. If she sees me or hears me she must be held. Or she will scream. End of story. And if I walk away she will follow me and climb up my leg. No sitting passively waiting for me to pick her up.
- She is a pacifier kid. She has never had any interest in her thumb and she now locates pacifiers if they are within reach and puts them in her mouth. So far we have kept them to the crib and the carseat so this isn't too bad. But if a stray one ends up in the living room she will find it and put it in her mouth. We need to be careful.
And since the girl does NOT sit still, it was incredibly difficult to get a good 8 month block picture. But I guess that makes these pictures representative of what she is like at this age.
And my favorite:
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