Miss P is 8 Months!!

I can't believe this doll is 8 months!! She has just developed SO quickly in the past month! Every single day is a new day, every hour and new hour and ever minute a new minute. Step by step (or maybe I should say crawl by crawl) she is changing from my little infant girl into a toddler and it is extraordinary! Every day is so darn fun and I'm beginning to feel like now she has explored every nook and cranny in the house and is getting bored... But that is not the case! Even though she's visited a room a thousand times or taken 100 baths or played with the door knocker tens of times she is SO excited and so happy to do it all over again! She just loves to play and loves to be tickled! She can play by herself for a while and it is so fun to just watch her explore her toys and see new things (like tonight in the bath she looked up at the ceiling like "hey what's up there") she's just so curious and so darn smart!

She is a very very good crawler now, crawls over things, on things, under things... Pulls up on all her toys and loves to stand up and play, she's doing a very good job of sitting back down gracefully too which puts me more at ease... For a while there it was like she just thought she could let go and magically land softly on her tush! But she is having so much fun being a more independent baby!

She LOVES bath time!! When we are getting the water ready or even if I'm just going into her bathroom to put away towels and she hears the fan come on she comes bolting in there as fast as she possibly can with the biggest smile on her face! I mean even if we weren't intending to give her a bath just then we just have to now because who can say no to that adorable face!

She loves to crawl around and play after her bed time bath, it has been so fun! But recently Lucas started a new tradition by accident. He was watching her one evening by himself and got her dried off and set her in her room with her towel still wrapped around her and hood on her head... She started crawling around with it still on and it is just so hilarious we have to do it every night now! I think she thinks she's funny too!

I got a text from Lucas the first time he let her crawl around with her kitty towel on and he said "there's a cat in our house"... I laughed so hard, I will never forget it!

She understands what we say more and more now! She knows what a snack is, and eat (she knows the sign too) she continues to wave and give me and sometimes her baby doll kisses!  She also knows "no" and will immediately stop and put her hands down like op that's dangerous... She sometimes tests me though and will inch a little closer to whatever I told her "don't touch" but she won't actually touch it, just scoot her bottom a liiiitttle closer like "can I get just a teeny bit closer mom?" So stinking cute! When I go in to get her in the morning she clings on to me and squeals like she is just so excited I'm there and so happy to see me! It just melts my heart!

Speaking of mornings that reminds me (like I forgot) about our sleep troubles lately! She had been doing SO good, going to sleep about 8pm waking up maybe at about 6 or 7 to nurse then going right back to slee again till about 9am ... Taking 2 close to 2 hour naps... But now our sleep has been turned upside down! I guess in just the last few days it has gotten a teeny bit better, but gosh has it been tough! She would maybe go to bed and 8, then wake up and want to stay up till midnight, then wake several times during the night and take 3 cat naps during the day! That was at its peak of insanity! It's getting better but she still wakes multiple times a night, sometimes she has trouble going back down (which once again is so odd for her) and she has had a harder time with nursing lately! I don't quite know what the deal is but she is probably just learning and growing so much it's throwing things off a bit! Who can blame her!

She's a girlie girl, she likes when I brush her "hair" (those cute little fuzzies on her head)... Loves her bows and of course loves allll jewelry! I think she just likes all the shinny stuff! She also loves her pieces of green beans and peas she can pick up herself, when in doubt just break those out and she will go to town!! She still loves mr. turtle and now has a passion for her tiny pots and pans! She also really enjoys Mickey Mouse and anything with music on the TV! Another crazy thing is she's figured out how to "slap" her iPad to get her game or music to start playing again... She also can figure out which app she wants to play with and push on it! She just blows us away with what she has learned to do!

She sits in the shopping cart now, which she really loves, and also very much enjoys holding a cracker while doing so! We've been to the zoo a couple times and I think this time she genuinely enjoyed it... It was the best zoo trip ever! Nice weather, not many people and ALL the animals were out!

So many new things this month, it's just hard to believe she's not my little infant baby anymore! We love her so much! So so much!

She loves looking out the front door and our big back window! Also forgot to mention she she gets reallllly excited about something she starts to flap her arms really hard... Like she's about to take off in flight !! I tell myself it's her version of clapping!!

Went on the swings for the first time this month!