8 Months

It's late so I'll just give a quick summary of the things going on in Ashley's life. 

-She isn't officially crawling yet but with her belly scooting, she is everywhere and in to everything.  She gets herself from room to room and anything she finds on the floor goes straight in to her mouth!  This has become so annoying.  I try to keep the floors picked up but she is constantly chewing on things - most of the times when I check it is just cheerios but I've also had her chewing on paper, a cookie Bennett left on the floor, a pebble from the park, and a small toy hay bale of Bennett's.  Ugh...

-Just in the past week she has started pulling herself up on to her knees and she has made it to standing a few times also.  This meant her crib got lowered even more.  She looks so big laying in her crib now that it's so far down.

-She has said DaDa a few times.

-She's eating 3 meals a day and 3 bottles.  She loves her food and gets sooo excited when it's time to eat.  I made her some baby food that she is enjoying - green beans from my garden, sweet corn/carrots on sale at the grocery's store and a pear/strawberry combo.  The veggies were definitely cheaper than buying Gerber baby food but the fruit was not and was actually more expensive. 

-I put her on the bathroom scale the other day and I think she only weighs about 15.8lbs.  Much much lighter than Bennett when he was this age.  She is wearing 6-9 month or 9 month clothing and size 2 diapers.  She should be in size 3 by now but I'm trying to use up the last of my size 2's. 

-She has learned to wave Hi, Bye & Night Night.  This is fun :-)

-She is still very addicted to me which is not fun.  If she sees me leave the room she has a fit.  If she is with other people, she is usually fine.  But then, when I enter the room, she'll start crying.  Ugh to this too...

Here are a few pictures throughout the month of my smiley little girl.

 She hasn't used the bouncy seat in months so I was getting ready to put it away.  But to occupy her while I did dishes one day, I put her in it.  She looked ridiculous!  It makes her look so long and big.

 We put the bouncy seat away and pulled out the walker (sniff sniff)

She really likes standing by her music station.  I like that it keeps her happy and content for a long time :-)