Eliana you are 8 months old!!!
-Technically, you’ll be 9-months-old tomorrow. I’m behind
because you keep me hopping. I won’t post
your 9-month update until after your
doctor’s appointment next week, so I can have your stats.
-You are wearing mostly 9-month clothes, but you can also wear 6-12
months. Some of your 6-month
onesies still fit as well.
-You are still wearing a size 3 diaper.
- I’m not sure how much you weigh right now, but you weighed 18 lbs 11 oz with
clothes on at your
2nd flu shot appointment on 10/18/12.
- I don’t know how long you are.
-You are still mainly just playing with your sippy cups, but we’re still
trying.
- We have added potatoes and pears. You will really eat anything
that we give you, and I hope you stay
that way.
- You started crawling for real on 10/15/12, and you have been
unstoppable ever since.
- You still give kisses, and it is still my favorite thing.
-You are still sleeping through the night! You had a cold, and
that threw off your sleeping for a couple
of nights, but thankfully it went
back to normal. Also, you suddenly decided that you hated going to
bed at
night. Normally, you would fall asleep while you were eating, and Daddy would
carry you to
bed. Now you don’t fall asleep as much, and we have had to Ferber
you. I think it has something to do
with separation anxiety and object
permanence kicking in. You know that we’re still around when we
walk out of
your room.
- I’m still a wimp about naptime. Let’s just leave it at that.
- You usually do fine in the car now. We drove to Pigeon Forge
once and Knoxville once, and you did
fine both times.
-We went to Wilderness at the Smokies with Mumsy, Popsy (I still
don’t know how we decided to spell
those), and the Uncles. You were only in the
water a little bit (it was a little cool), but you really seemed
to like it.
Sleeping that night was interesting. We were all sleeping in the same hotel
room. I fed you
and put you to sleep while Popsy and the Uncles were out of the
room. However, you didn’t stay
asleep for very long. Uncle Tuck is super wiggly
in his sleep, and he was sleeping on a blow-up
mattress that made noise every
time he moved. Popsy was snoring. Eventually, Mumsy made Uncle
Tuck sleep with
Popsy. Then, Uncle Tuck started making nose sounds. Your Daddy and I were trying
so hard not to laugh out loud because it was hilarious. You woke up for a second during all of
that
commotion, but you went right back to sleep. Unfortunately, you woke up
again around 1:30, and we
took you to the lobby of the hotel. You were wide-awake.
We eventually decided that the only way
you would be able to go back to sleep
was for me to feed you and keep you in bed with us. We don’t
like to let you
sleep with us, but that was the only way for anyone to get sleep that night.
- We took you to the Alabama vs. Tennessee football game in
Knoxville. We had no idea that you
would have to have a ticket. Apparently, the
NCAA requires everyone regardless of age to buy a ticket.
Needless to say,
Daddy and I were not happy about that. $80 for a 7-month-old’s ticket is a bit
extreme!
Anyway, Alabama won, but that’s okay, we still had fun. Oh, and our favorite player, Peyton Manning
was there!
- You are still an attention hog.
- Still no teeth! They have to come soon!
- You love toys! I don’t think you have a favorite one yet, though.
- We are still working on getting you to play by yourself
without being held.
-You still love to be held.
- You went with us to vote in the Presidential election.
- You’re still getting angry during diaper changes. Now that you
can crawl it’s even worse. You don’t
want to sit still for a second!
- Your right tear duct is still clogged.
- You love bath time! You get very upset when we take you out of
the bath!
-Did I mention that you have some serious opinions now?
- You have started playing with your own hair. It is so cute!
That doesn’t mean that you’ve stopped
pulling on mine, unfortunately!
- You recognize your bowls. You get so excited when I get one out
to feed you.
- You have just started putting your feet in your mouth. It
really cracks me up.
- You can stand up if you are leaning against something.
- You really like the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. The only way I can
take a shower without you getting
upset is to take one while Mickey is on TV.
- Your poor little chin has started getting so chapped because
you are always drooling and licking it.
- It’s the beginning of ETSU’s basketball season. You are quite
popular there. They even showed you
on the news. Our family is also on one of the tickets.
- You were dressed as a hot dog for Halloween. We have another
costume that we will use for our
costume party. Daddy took a funny picture of
the two of you where he was pretending to eat you. You
won a funny photo
contest, and they showed your picture on the news.
- You make all kinds of different mouth noises. It’s hilarious!
- I bought a pack of 6 paper towels, and you thought it was the
best toy ever! You climbed on it, and
leaned on it and pushed it all over the
living room.
-Oh, and I may have stuck you in a pumpkin to take some pictures. Sorry about that!
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