Eight months!

Little Miss Adi is 8 months old on Tuesday!

I know I say this every time, but this is going by way too fast.  She is not a newborn anymore and is getting quite the personality.  She is such a happy baby and makes me laugh often.

Things she is loving these days…

Listening to daddy play the guitar

Her exersaucer

Solids, especially oatmeal!

Being anywhere her big brother is.

Playing with toys!

Her blanket.

Being held by mommy…a lot.  I don’t mind because I know it won’t last much longer.

Milestones:

I noticed her first tooth came in 2 weeks ago.  It came as a total surprise to me because she wasn’t even all that fussy.  She had a couple of fussy days spread out here and there, but overall she is taking this teething thing like a champ!

She will now roll from front to back and back to front to try to get to toys.  It took her forever to roll over, but I also noticed that she likes to sleep on her tummy.  She would never roll over while we were playing, but she would to go to sleep. 

She is starting to lift herself up when she is on the ground.  I see scooting/crawling in the very near future.

She eats about 4 times a day every 4 hours.  We just dropped the 9 pm feeding, which put her down to 4, so before that we were giving her 5 feeds a day.  She seems to have transitioned just fine, but I think she was more then ready to drop it.  I just didn’t want to give it up until I was sure she was ready.

She eats some sort of fruit in the morning, veggies at lunch and some sort of protein and more veggies at dinner. 

I am still nursing her, which is huge for me since my goal for both kids was 6 months.  However, I am only nursing twice a day.  Once in the morning and once in the afternoon.  About a month ago Adi started to fight nursing and loves the bottle, so I didn’t fight it too hard.  I tried for a few days but that was just too frustrating for both of us, so I am letting her take control of when she wants to wean.

She takes two naps a day.  Her morning nap is from about 8:30 to 10:30 and her afternoon nap is from about 12:30 to 3.

She goes to bed at 6:30 and sleeps until 7.

Oh, and I can’t get enough of those big, blue eyes!!  Adi, we love you baby girl but please SLOW DOWN!  No need to grow up so fast!