8 Months!

 (ok, I don't know what she was thinking here, but I LOVE this pic)

Well baby girl, I think this is the last holiday one of your milestones will land on...You were born on Easter, celebrated 2 month on our 5 year anniversary, last month you were 7 months on Thanksgiving, and now you are 8 months on Christmas Eve (if you did the math there, that also means Justin and I have been married 5 and 1/2 years!!).

 So 8 whole months....and no teeth :) I really love that gummy smile and apparently you are in no rush to change that either, so while grandma keeps assuring me that she *knows* there is a tooth, I don't see it ;)
However, we are both pretty sure you said 'hi' this month so I am going to give that one to you and count that as your first word...anytime you want to say 'mama' would be great!
Even without teeth you love to eat. Your latest new food was yogurt and you LOVE it! We are looking to start trying another new round of foods this month, so we'll see what you like. On a mommy note, we have now made it 2/3 of our goal for you to just have breast milk your first year....

You also keep flirting with crawling. You push up and even sometimes get your knees up and scoot backwards, but nothing forward yet. Though you have started walking....

BUT you still need to crawl! There is some research about the input you get from crawling being linked to your ability to read, SO more floor time for you!

Little Rose, you are also starting to insert your personality...I am sure there are some 'drama queen' years in our future. You have definitely learned how to show your like and dislike of things. If you are happy you are all smiles and giggles, BUT if you are not pleased then you turn on the tears and your little lips frown :( it makes mommy very sad, so of course, I make you happy again :)

You are also not sleeping so super this month... We try to put you to bed between 7-8pm and would really like you to sleep until at least 6am, but lately it's been 5:30am...this is just too early for mommy and daddy, but you start talking and talking and talking and there is just no convincing you to sleep. I am also not sure what we are going to do about swaddling you, we still are...because you seem to calm down and sleep so much better, but at some point it'll have to end...I am kind of nervous about that.You also are taking about 3 naps a day, ranging from 30 minutes to over 2 hours...soon you'll probably cut back to about 2, so we'll see how that goes.
You still love to be out and about. You do such a great job on shopping trips and everyone says how cute and pleasant you are, because you are pretty sweet and adorable (although not at 5:30am, did I mention you need to sleep a little later?). You also still really enjoy your bath time. I think you would stay in there for hours if you wouldn't turn into a little prune baby :)
So that's where we are at 8 months...