8 Months

Oh my how the months fly when your having fun. Gracie turned 8 Months this past week. She is growing and developing so quickly. She is one of the happiest if not the happiest baby I have ever met. She is really good about her schedule which keeps the rest of us happy and sane. She gets up about 830-9 eats her rice cereal and fruit with a bottle then about an hour later goes back to sleep and wakes up just in time to have lunch which usually consists of some finger food(she has gotten very into feeding herself), a veggie, and a bottle. About a hour after that its back to bed then up for snacks and a bottle, repeat the sleeping pattern just in time for dinner.  She usually stays up until taking a quick 45 minute nap before waking up to have a bath, pjs, and a bottle before bedtime at 830-9. She occasionally cries out in her sleep at night but beyond that sleeps til we hear from her in the morning. She is much more into food and feeding herself than Hallie was. This past week we went to a BBQ with friends while we were waiting for dinner to cook she got a little impatient. I gave her a Chetto...needless to say she loved it.

 She has found her voice and uses more vowels and consonance everyday. She has started saying dada but doesn't associate it with Matt yet. We were trying to get her to say mama the other night and Hallie comes over and says teach Gracie to say my name. Now I find Hallie talking to Gracie saying my name is Hallie can you say Hallie. Its so cute. She uses rolling to get wherever she wants to go but has started scooting. She will  try to get up on her knees and ends up doing a plank looking move before falling down again. But she is getting to close to being mobile for my liking. She is content to play with her toys or loves to pull the letters off the fridge and just last week figured out how to push the buttons to make the radio on the fridge play. The first couple of times I think it scared her as she got the pout on her face and cried a little. She has kinda grown out of loving her jumper but she does like it once in a while.

We happen to go to dinner with some friends the day after she turned 8 months. Once we got the kids their ice cream she was reaching and eyeing the ice cream so we let her have it she loved all of it....til she dropped it on the floor:( She still has no teeth but that hasn't slowed her down at all. She likes to(what we think is) dance. by kicking her legs, waving her arms, and turning her head side to side. She gets the most excited when Hallie dances and she gets involved. We lovingly call her Gracie Goo. I can't imagine what our lives would be like without her she is such a sunshine in our little family.