Everything Emery {8 months}

Our sweet girl is 8 months old!  Yikes!  We are already starting talks about her first birthday party.  How can that be?  I feel like she has developed in several different ways this month.  For starters, she has started babbling her first word "dada" and has decided be on the move with her consecutive rolling in order to get places.  She HATES to sit down and will straighten her legs and body in order to keep standing instead of sitting.  She is still the BEST baby.  She rarely cries, sleeps like a rock star and has a wrinkled nose smile that can melt your heart.  Let's see what else you have been up to this month, Emmy!

 Eight month stats:

• You go to bed around 7:45 each night and sleep till 7:30 a.m.
• You take two naps a day.  9:30-11:00 or so and 1:00-4:00.  You occasionally cat nap in the evenings if you did not take a very long nap or we are out and about in the evenings.  

• You wear size 3 diapers and 9 month clothing.   
• You eat 4 bottles a day, every 4 hours that are 7 ounces each.  You still drink Enfamil Gentlease and you still take 2.5 ML of prevacid everyday.  I tried to stop your medicine this month but it did not go well.  You were ok for a few days but after that you would cry while eating and then stopped eating all together.  However, once I started you back on the medicine you went back to eating. 
• You have been eating lot of baby food this month along with puff, yogurt melts and baby rice cakes.  You eat about 3-4 ounces for lunch and for dinner.  

• You have been babbling "dada" a lot this month.  When you babble you lift your arms up and down and babble/hum as if you are singing.
• You are the wigglest baby EVER!  You hate to sit and only want to stand.  You are constantly on the move and looking around.  

• You started "reaching" for us to hold you this month.  If I sit down on the ground beside you then you will reach out and lunge toward me to hold you.
•  You started rolling around consecutively this month with the purpose of going somewhere.  You try to get up on all fours but you are not quite there.  You do scoot backwards sometimes.  

• You have the best facial expressions.  You are always wrinkling your nose when someone talks to you.  
• You moved up to the duck back this month and you love it!  Bath time is still your favorite!   

• You favor mommy the most and mommy can also make you laugh the most!  I dare to say that you are a momma's girl.
• You love Lincoln.  Last week when I picked Lincoln up from the baby sitters you started giggling when he got in the car.  

• You continue to LOVE your paci.
• Your first tooth came in this month.  It is on the bottom. 

• You have started to get a little jealous when I am holding Lincoln instead of you.  So we often have to all cuddle up together.

Here is the comparison with you and Lincoln this month.  You continue to look "older" than Lincoln at the same age.  And in fact you are much "taller" than him at this age and probably weigh a little more. 

Emmy-girl, you are such a bright spot in our day!  You are so pleasant and love our attention.  You have the most beautiful blue eyes that have quite the sparkle to them.  We could not love you anymore if we tried!  Happy 8 months sweet girl!