Since we were saying
bye-bye "see you again soon" to Daddy on your 8 month birthday, this post is a few days late.
Where do I begin?
EIGHT MONTHS! And, I thought turning 7 months old was a big milestone.
Cheyanne, you are killing your Momma! You are growing up too fast! Slow down! Well, actually, if you could slow down everything except this new screaming to throw a quick tantrum thing that you have started recently. Yep, all else- slow it down a notch.
Besides the tantrum throwing, you have actually been up to a lot of exciting things this last month!
You are mobile. Not crawling yet mobile, but you are right on the edge. The desire is there, but that one leg keeps getting you hooked every time you get into the crawl stance.
And you're still working on getting to that crawl stance without falling forward. That stupid floor is always getting in the way.
But, this is a huge improvement from the dreaded tummy time. Now you put yourself down there and my job is to just keep you from smacking into the floor (which I usually succeed at, however, we've had your first couple bruises the last few weeks- sorry- bad momma). You have scooted backwards a few times but I don't think you realized quite what you had done. You do however LOVE to stand and jump. "Jump jump jump" is all I have to say to get you going. And, rolling is a continual mode of transportation. You want something? Just roll to it.
Your schedule.... what schedule?! We are so far off any kind of schedule these days, its disastrous. Your daily schedule from a few months ago made this plannable Momma very happy. It seems that every time that we get close to getting you back into the swing of things, we head back out of town or something happens that requires us to change things around. That drops us right back to square one of relearning to sleep on your own at the right time. So, while you still take 2 naps morning and afternoon (whenever you feel like it), they have shortened to roughly 30 minutes at a time. Sigh. That does not leave Momma much time to enjoy a shower or get much done without you on my hip. And, still no sleeping through the night either. Good thing you are so cute and love your Momma so much because we spend A LOT of time together :) We're best friends.
Some of your favorite things are Mickey Mouse, brushing your teeth, bananas, giving kisses, drinking water out of Momma's glass, and a nice breeze. All of these things make you smile from ear to ear. You love to watch Journey no matter what she is doing. Lord help her the day you start to crawl.
You eat solids twice a day while you still nurse every 3-3.5 hours. You've had bananas, peaches, applesauce, pears, sweet potato, squash, avocado, green beans, peas, and carrots. We've also started you on
Plum organic baby organic super puffs banana and peach flavor
. So far, so good. You're still timid about eating them on your own, so for now I feed them to you out of my hand until they really soften.
We have a few favorite games that we play every day.
Where's Cheyanne? and
Kissee Monster are some of our favs. We play/sing wheels on the bus, head and shoulders, and patty cake a lot too. (If anyone ever needs to know some hour-long lifesaving lyrics to wheels on the bus, just let me know- lifesaving because they saved us on our road trip to NC last week). Your laughter turns any bad day right again. Its the best sound in the world to my ears, so it is pretty embarrassingly ridiculous what I'm willing to do to hear it.
You have grown a lot in the last month. You are in cloth diapers about 85% of the time. You only wear pampers when we are out all day, out of town, or at night sleeping. But when you are in Pampers, you are still in size 3 but they sure are fitting you differently than they did last month. You are primarily in 12 month clothing. Thankfully, as it gets warmer outside, you stay in dresses most of the time. I'm pretty sure you are outgrowing your size 3 shoes, long thin feet like your daddy. You truly are growing way too fast.
You've had a few big firsts that I want to remember. You
waved bye-bye, not to your Momma who has practiced and practiced with you, but instead to a Chick-fil-A worker who waved at you. Jealous! You also had your
first trip out on the beach last week. This was when we went with Daddy to OBX and went for a nice walk on the beach. You are just like both of us, you love the ocean- wave after wave brought on smile after smile. You talk now also. You can say
MOMMA and
BABA and recently
WAWA and
YAYA. You love the mouth consonants but haven't tried much of the tongue consonants. No DADA yet. I gush every time I hear Momma, whether it is too me or not, I don't care. I love it. Oh, and your
tongue sticking out is a constant.
Ok, that is a good description of your changes in the last month. I still can't get over that you are now 8 months. I get choked whenever someone asks how old you are because saying "eight months" just doesn't seem right. My little love girl, I can't get enough of you. I could eat you up every single day. Keep the sweet times a comin' my baby.
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Obviously, it is getting harder and harder to get Little Miss to sit still for long for a decent picture. Thus, we had four different photo shoot locations. From the bed to the couch to the floor to somewhere else on the floor. Crazy girl.
