8 months.

YAY I AM 8 MONTHS! 

(post two weeks late)

She loves doing "So Big" when we ask her "how big are you?"
She did it almost every single time I said anything to her to get her attention for the pictures!

One of her current favorites is peek a boo. She started holding things over her face a few weeks ago and pulling it down waiting for us to say Boo. She does it with EVERY object she picks up. I always say "where is Claire" so she has started holding her ups or an object up and saying "care, care (claire)" this last week.

 

 

 

Claire seems to grow and change by the minute. She is developing her own little personality and is quite a ham. We are so lucky to have such a happy baby who is always smiling, laughing and rarely, if ever complains, whines, or cries.

 

 

She makes the funniest scrunch face and pants with her mouth open when she is excited. This can be about seeing mommy, daddy, Ella, or Winston or one of her toys or something new. 

She waves Hi and Bye as well as says Hi. I always say HI when I walk into her room after night or a nap. She has started saying HI as soon as she sees the door open. She is trying to imitate and say everything we say. She can say Care (Claire), Hi, Up, Go, Yay, Mama, Dada, Quack, and of course lots of sounds. Baba, Gaga, and I am sure I am forgetting a few.

This girl LOVES food. It literally makes her happy. The last few weeks we have started bigger chunks and pieces of food that she can pick up and she loves it. She truly things she is hot stuff when she is feeding herself. She loves whole green beans, brocolli florets, peas (which she has a pretty impressive pincher grasp), pretty much any veggie you feed her. She absolutely loves Mum Mums and her organic puffs. And she thinks drinking water is a hoot. She is so dramatic with her cup. She grabs it and slings her head and whole body back and chugs it then laughs about it. Sometimes I wish I could just bottle up all her happiness. You cant help but smile just by looking at her.

She is wanting to spend a lot of time on her belly these days. I think we are on the verge of learning to crawl. She is constantly rolling, grabbing, looking, very active. She has actually been rolling over a lot at night and naps onto her belly. Sometimes she is fine with it and goes back to sleep and other times due to the sleep sack cant get turned back over and gets pretty upset.

Sleep is going much much better. She wakes a few times a night but most of those times she is able to put herself back to sleep by sucking on her lovey blankie. I still go in there one to two times a night to feed her. She goes to bed between 630 and 7 and usually sleeps til 715 or 730 everyday. She takes a morning and afternoon nap everyday and every now and then needs a late afternoon short nap. Her morning and afternoon nap are anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours but I would say average is about an hour.

For as much as she hated the car early on, she is an amazing passenger these days. She does great entertaining herself and can even go a two hour car ride without cpmplaining. She isn't a big car sleeper but will sleep maybe thirty minutes on a long ride. She loves interacting with Ella in the car and will try to get her attention anyway she can. This can include yelling at her, grunting, coughing, laughing, spits, blows raspberries, etc.

As you can see in most the pics her fuzzy hair is really starting to come in on top and stand up. I love soft, fuzzy, baby hair.

She loves shoving her feet in her mouth.

She is just really reaching that age where she is trying so hard to and wants so bad to interact and communicate with us. And is really proud of herself when she does so. So excited what 9 month brings.