8 Months Old

Dear Vivian:
You are 8 months old now!! We went for your 8 month check up last week and you weighed 15 lbs, 15oz and were 26.75" long! You're still pretty small, but perfect! We couldn't see Dr Hogan like usual so we saw my favorite, Mr. Kilcer instead. You didn't have to get any shots. He did ask if you were saying mama or dada or anything and it made me worry a little since you aren't talking at all. He also asked if you were pulling up, crawling or creeping...again, you are not. They checked your iron and it was great. He asked if you were eating cereal, fruits and veggies and I said "cereal as in Cheerios, yes." He didn't seem too impressed with that and went on to say you need baby cereal for iron since it usually drops off around 6 months. So ha, my Cheerios must have enough. He also said no meat til 10 months, no strawberries, peanut butter or eggs until 15 months. Whoops...I give you meat and strawberries all the time. I think he's just kind of old school. I left a little concerned, but not really. All babies develop at different rates. You do a lot of yelling, laughing and screeching, and you're so close to crawling. YOu can get on all fours and back to your butt. You also rock pretty good and you try to go but end up falling on your face most of the time.
Whenever you're just sitting on the floor and a song comes on you start bopping around. You love to dance! It's sooo cute.
You're eating all sorts of stuff now. Pretty much anything I can break into smaller pieces for you. You just love food!
We've gone camping twice now and it's been great! You love sitting in the water just splashing and letting the waves hit you. The only thing is, you want to eat the sand and pebbles. And when you sit on the grass you want to eat the grass. You're a crazy girl.
You're back to not sleeping good again. Well actually once you're asleep you sleep fine, it's just getting you to sleep. It's sooo hard. You fight it so bad and just scream and cry and there is no stopping you. It's almost like you need to do it to get it all about before you can fall asleep and it just drives me crazy and makes me sad to leave you to scream and cry and carry on like that. :-(
Hopefully you'll get better at falling asleep and some day will be able to self soothe.

Today is daddy's birthday!! He's 28!! We're getting old! We aren't doing anything special today, I just made some pulled pork for sandwiches at his request and we'll go over and have cake at nana's. He didn't want anything big, he just wanted the evening to relax. Which is a-ok with me, as I like relaxing too! :-)

Well, time to wrap it up and get out of here!
I love you to the moon and back baby girl.
Love,
Mommy