Well friends, you may have noticed that I missed the 7 month
post. Never fear, I did take pictures, I just was so busy around the
thanksgiving holiday that I never got around to typing up my little love
note. As I’m posting this 8 month post,
I am also posting the pics from the 7 month marker, back dated. So feel free to scan back there and take a
look at Miss O with her turkey.
But here we are…
Christmas Day 2012 and Miss O is a whopping EIGHT MONTHS OLD! I can’t believe it. I can’t believe I haven’t slept more than 4
hours consecutively in 8 months. I can’t
believe we’ve had this blessing in our lives for 8 months. And I really can’t remember much of life
before her. Maybe that’s due to the
blessing part, but I also think it might be due to the sleep part! J I’m
so excited that I waited until O was exactly 8 months old to write this,
because we’ve seen amazing changes in her just over the last couple days!
O has really grown
into her personality in the last week or so.
Now when she vocalizes, it’s not just to get attention or to play with
her voice, she’s definitely trying to tell us something. She calls out to someone (or something) when
she wants your attention when you’re across the room. She says “dadadadadadada” when she’s playing
and she says “mamamamamama” when she’s sleepy or hungry. When she’s exploring something new or trying
to figure something out, she says “aba!”
The best part is when she can’t get her mouth and voice coordinated, so
she starts to move her mouth for a “babababa” but the voice doesn’t start until
the 3rd or 4th syllable.
She looks like a Japanese dubbed movie.
She also is SO excited when she sees other children, especially children
that are older than her. On Sunday she
got to climb up in her Cousin, J’s lap (he’s 5 and in a wheel chair) and she
just squealed and laughed and shouted at him.
She really loved it!
At around 7 months,
the army crawl she was doing took on a cute personality with what we call her “peg
leg.” She crawls with both forearms and the right leg, but the left leg stays
sticking out straight. Despite the 3
legged business, she’s super speedy.
Over the last week or so, she’s also trying to get up onto all 4s a
little better. She can take one or two “steps”
that way, but then the belly flops back down onto the floor and she keeps going
with the peg-leg army crawl. But more
exciting than that, we watched Miss O pull up to kneeling for the first time on
the day that we took the 7 month pictures. And now that we’ve hit the 8 month mark, she’s
consistently pulling up on anything she can find and pulling all the way to
standing! She’s so proud of herself when
she does that.
Eating continues to
go well. She’s a “baby bird” when
someone tries to feed her purees, and usually eats everything she’s
offered. But I’m still not doing purees
at home, really. Grandma does them
sometimes and day care does them at least once a day. At home, we do all solid foods. She’ll put almost any flavor in her
mouth. She LOVED the black beans with
chili seasoning I gave her. She also
eats things like red and green peppers, hunks of egg or banana, and pieces of
broccoli or asparagus. Her favorite
seems to be slices of cheese… a girl after my own heart. But what I really love is that she doesn’t
mind when we put exciting seasonings on things—onions and garlic with her
beans, mustard on her veggies, yogurt dipped bananas. She’s quite the adventurer when it comes to
flavors. We’ve also started offering
both an open cup and a sippy cup at various meals, just for experience and
play. We always put water in these and
she smiles and laughs when the cold stuff touches her tongue.
I guess the final
note I’d say at this point, is that I completely understand why by 6 months of
age, people want to “sleep train” their child.
I’m tired. I’m tired of being
woken in the middle of the night, I’m tired of crying when it’s time to try to
go to sleep. But Ben and I revisit our
goals and desires with attachment parenting frequently, and we’re sticking with
it. Miss O still breast feeds 2-3 times
every night and we’re still happily co-sleeping, despite our interrupted sleep
schedule. I am looking forward to the
holiday craziness dying down, though, so that we can focus more on our own
family’s routine at home rather than trying to cope through with different
activities and schedules every day of the week.
Anyway… Merry
Christmas and Hugs from Boston!
Blessings to you all in the New Year!!!
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