• Are eating, eating, eating – everything in sight! You are still drinking 4 bottles a day at 6 ounces each. You are still eating some Gerber Stage 2 foods but you’ve also tried some Stage 3 foods. You are eating lots of table foods – mashed bananas, pears, apples, white potatoes, sweet potatoes, toast, you LOVE Club crackers (although Mommy doesn’t like cleaning up after you eat them!), Cheerios, Gerber Puffs (apple/cinnamon, sweet potato, cherry), and bits of cheese. We’re waiting for you to get more teeth to give you more advanced foods.
• Are drinking diluted apple juice and white grape juice from a sippy cup (we finally got one that you like). You’re teething right now and you like chewing on the spout as much as you like drinking. You occasionally drink from a cup like a big girl.
• Are wearing size 4 diapers and have started wearing overnight diapers.
• Are wearing mostly 9 month clothes and a few 12 month clothes.
• Weigh 22.5 pounds according to our rough calculations at home.
• Have your first tooth! We’re not sure of the exact day it broke through – it happened the week of January 9th. You’ve been working on it a long time, and we’ve FELT it in there for a VERY long time! We love watching you work at it with your tongue.
• Take a morning nap and an afternoon nap. Still never know how long they’ll be, but they’re pretty regular.
• Go to sleep between 7:00 and 7:30 pm and wake up between 7:00 and 8:00 am.
• Have been developing so quickly this past month! Last month you had just started sitting up by yourself from a tummy position when I did your 7-month report. You started crawling on December 28th – at your great-grandmother’s house (GG). You immediately started pulling yourself up to sit on your knees, and then this past Monday, January 17th, you pulled yourself up to a standing position!
• Very rarely make your pterodactyl sound. Boo.
• Have learned how to wave “hello”. You did it well enough for us to get it on video on January 16th.
• Like chewing on your hands again – we think it’s teething issues.
• Are working on your friendship with Bond. He is SO PATIENT with you! You gave him a hug today (which basically means you spread yourself out on top of him and smothered him), but he let you. You’re learning how to pet him “gently”.
• Still love to squeal when you get excited and you kick your feet like crazy.
• Have started using a bath seat your Mimi and Papa gave you and you love playing with your bath toys. You’ve started kicking your feet a little bit in the water and splashing with your hands.
• Are a CRAWLING SPEED DEMON!
• Have experienced your first Christmas and your first snow.
• Were promoted from the bed babies’ room in the church nursery.
• Love being tickled. I love your cackling laugh!
• Love to play your "harps". Your latest texture obsession is things you can “strum”. The air vents on the wall, the air vents on the TV, etc.
• Are s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g. You always outgrow the length of your pants and sleeves before anything else, and you don’t have as many leg rolls as you used to have.
• Bring a new joy to us every single day. We love you, Sunshine!
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| On her 8-month birthday ready to go to BSF in an outfit Mimi and Papa gave her for Christmas. |
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| After church one Sunday. |
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| At Gran and Daddy Bill's house playing with the talking piggy bank Aunt Michelle & Uncle Bruce gave her for Christmas. |
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| Laughing with Daddy Bill. |
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| Eating Cheerios and drinking white grape juice. |
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| Reading with Daddy Bill - Her "textures" book that Cousin Elissa gave her. |
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| Sitting with GG - Her great-grandmother. |
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| Standing up at GG's house! |
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| Playing with Gran and one of her favorite toys Aunt Carol gave her...her puppy named LizzieLu. |
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| Cuddles with Gran. |
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