8 Months! – jesser

Yesterday Ms Tabby turned 8 months old. I can hardly believe she's not always been a smiling, cooing part of our family. She has had some more developmental milestones in the past month. She is probably most proud of her new-found ability to clap. She loves to do this in chorus with our cheers and applause. She doesn't make much noise yet, but it's so fun to see her imitate. She has also decided to wave hello and bye-bye once or twice, but she only does this when she feels like it. She has also started saying a few words consistently … they aren't used purposefully yet, but “dada,” “yay!” and some sort of hybrid between “hello,” “hey,” and “hi” is there too. “Mama,” of course, isn't happening yet.

We have no crawling yet and still showing limited interest in that. She will lie on her tummy and scooch for things here and there if she's good and motivated (read: when she wants to retrieve her binky), but otherwise, she wants to be sitting or standing, thank you very much. There are also no teeth visible yet. I feel like they'll come any day if her crankiness and the voracity with which she gnaws on anything that is presented to her are any indication. Ah well … I don't want her growing up too fast.

Above are a few of my favorite shots over the past week or so … she loves to play in our bed. I think it's something about the down comforter and the mountains of pillows. And that is her first taste of spaghetti (and meatballs). She ate it with great gusto and slurped down the noodles like she'd been doing it all of her life. Bottom left is her basking in the glow of my laptop (playing Toddler Keys) and on the right, she's playing with her shape sorter. Cute overload.

6 Replies to “8 Months!”

Ahhh the clapping. I've been trying to get the Mini to clap, but he hates it when you touch his hands and whenever I clap he looks at me like “what is your DAMAGE? Shut uuuuuuuuuuuuup.”

And what is it about laptops and kids? The mini is crawling over himself right now to get to mine.