8 months sounds so old! I can't believe our little Lilah is so close to being a year old! I'm enjoying every second. Yes, even the super extreme clingy phase she is going through right now. It's a little tiring, but it does feel good to have someone want to be around me so much! (besides James, of course :)
At 8 months, Lilah is:
- getting around, mostly army crawling, but close to real crawling. And she is fast when she wants something! She rocks a lot on hands and knees, and hands and toes. Our little downward-facing girl :)
- babbling, saying "mamamama" (which I love, although I don't think she knows what it means) and "babababa", etc. She is usually very happy, babbling and making noises while she plays. She also says "mamamama" when she wants me to pick her up, so maybe she does know what it means :)
- eating brown rice cereal, bananas, sweet potatoes, peas, beans, applesauce, squash, carrots. We just started giving her little puffs and it's funny to watch her pick them all up at once and then try to get them out of her fist and into her mouth. She still prefers milk, but she's getting used to food.
- playing with balls, cars, musical toys, books, bracelets, and pretty much anything she can suck on. I think it's so cute that she carries around her favorite toys, which are a spoon, a brush, and a pez dispenser right now.
- loving her family. She definitely prefers Mommy and Daddy and she loves her Ethie (mostly). She has definite separation anxiety and cries when other people try to hold her. But she lunges for daddy when he gets home, so I think she feels safe with us :)
- is our little sunshine! She brings so much joy to our family!!!
After due consideration and polling with my co-expert, we have decided that Lilah is the undisputed co-holder (along with a very cute eight year-old in Utah) of the LOVELIEST GRANDDAUGHTER IN THE WORLD title. And of course her feeding, grooming, clothing, recreation, and diction coaches have a bunch to do with that!
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Dad and Jeanette