8 months

Our little girl is 8 months old which is SO hard to believe! She is either up on two feet or trying to crawl to something she can pull herself up on! She loves to stand at her toy basket and play with the treasures she finds inside. She then will take small (wobbly) steps while holding on to her exersaucer and peruse the edge of that playing with each toy until she has made it all the way around to her toy basket again. It is very fun to watch her little mind work and see where she will go next. Scary to think we may have a walker very soon! I will say one of our BIGGEST milestones is Evie decided to drop her 5 o'clock feed (that mommy was trying to hanging on to) and is sleeping 11-12 hours straight! And I know we had some rough long nights with lots of waking starting back at 4 months but now she sleeps without a PEEP! HOORAY!

Here are some more fun things she is doing :

• Started to say "Da Da" all day long--not that it relates to her dad yet, but dad likes to think so!
• Loves to clap her hands whether it is mimicking us, feeling the beat of the music, or just randomly when she thinks some applause it warranted!
• Pulling up EVERYWHERE! No height is too high or scary for her!
• Loves to play in the kitchen while mom cooks with her new "kitchen toy" basket
• Got her FIRST TOOTH on the left bottom gum
• Started "FINGER FOODS"--although she is still trying to figure this out
• Still LOVING her baby food and eats up to 7 jars a day!
• We have dropped to only 4 feeds a day
• Sleeping 11-12 hours at night WITHOUT waking up---FINALLY!

 Playing in her kitchen toy basket

 Exploring the kitchen

 Our cute smiley girl!

Likes to play AROUND the exersaucer, not so much IN it anymore...

 Oh yes, and especially loves to CHEW on things when she is standing

Oh the things she learns to pull up on---hopefully she will also learn to help mom empty this soon!