8 months pics and stats!

CHEESE! I'm 8 months old!

My baby is 8 months old as of yesterday! Can you believe it?? She now weighs 20 lbs 12oz, and is 28.5 inches long!

New developments: She is talking alot. Most of it doesn't make sense of course, but she does know what ba-ba (bottle) means although she doesn't say it, and she says ny-ny (nite nite) when you rock her and she is tired. Also, she can wave bye bye! Not at appropriate times but if you say bye bye and wave, she will (most of the time) wave back! SMART BABY! As you saw a couple posts back she was doing the "itsy bitsy spider" well now she refuses to do it. Good thing we got it on video or no one would believe us! She also waves her arms up and down when she hears music or when you sing. And she usually looks at me if I say "Maddy, look at mama!"

Amanda and I went out to eat Mexican with the kiddos the other night and Maddy was grabbing at everything, throwing her toys on the floor, babbling, and I think at one point her and Carsyn were actually having a conversation in babynese...LOL. But it hit me all of a sudden that she is turning into a REAL human! Like she's not just a baby blob anymore! She understands me, she looks for me, she knows what she wants and how to get it most of the time. She is 0% interested in crawling however and plenty of tummy time and cheering does not motivate her. If you try to put a toy right out of her reach, she will just find another one to play with or she will play with her blanket or the rug. She can stand up holding on to something for a little bit if you put her there. I am getting more and more convinced that she will never crawl and will go straight to walking.

As for food...well she is still on regular baby food. I have tried to introduce finger foods like mashed banana or mashed carrots. She plays with them and makes a huge mess but if it (most of the time accidently) gets in her mouth, she gags and throws up. So I guess she is just not ready. We will have to try again in a few weeks. Either that or she is gerber gourmet snob. Whoever thought pureed vegetables would be so yummy?

Well here are the pictures that I know yall came here for. =) They all were so cute, it was hard to decide which ones to post! If you want to see all of them I will be posting to MySpace or Facebook soon. =)

LOVE LOVE LOVE the last one. Would've been cuter if daddy's hands weren't in the way! hehe