Matt and Kristin: 8 Months Old

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Highlights of Emilyn Iris at 8 months old:

Loves people food, and will eat anything she can get her hands on. She is also known to chipmunk food and store it in her cheek to be found an hour later if we’re not careful!

She isn’t a big fan of green baby food, but she likes most of the others. She likes to eat crackers and cheerios and thinks she’s big enough to grab and eat whatever we’re having at each meal. Matt has already had an unexpected glass of water in his lap in a restaurant.

Very distracted nurser right now. She needs dark and quiet rooms to focus and even then she can find my watch to grab, the chair to kick, or my face to pat and distract herself from eating.

I’ve decided that it’s because of this she ends up waking up so much to eat at night. She doesn’t get enough during the day because she’s too busy looking around and checking things out, and needs to make up for it at night. She’s waking up at least twice a night on average still, even though she eats quite a bit of baby food and bits of people food she needs more milk to keep those thighs sufficiently chunky! After eating she does go right back to sleep now, and will sleep from about 7 or 8 to 8 or so in the morning (not counting the feedings, of course), and naps twice a day for an hour or two each time.

Loves grabbing at faces, especially pulling at the inside of cheeks and grabbing hair, she cracks herself up.

Is starting to roll around more, and is discovering it can get her places. I sometimes find her sleeping on her tummy now. She still isn’t crawling, but is content to sit up and play with toys and look around.

She has learned to “finger blabber” using her fingers to make her mouth make noises, and she loves to hear herself make noises and form sounds. She has quite a proficient growl. She can still screech and she cries with real, big alligator tears when she is sad. It makes her cute, little face even harder to ignore!

Still loves attention, and demands it if she doesn’t get it. And she SMILES, SMILES, SMILES all the time! She will smile at pretty much everyone, but Mommy is her absolute favorite person. She has started to beam when I walk in the room, and then cry as soon as I walk out of it.