The Hartsell Family: 8 months old

Sunday, March 25, 2012

8 months old

I know I say this every month but I can't believe that Madelyn is 8 months old. I was putting her to sleep the other night and looked at her and realized that she is now a little girl not my baby girl.

She's doing a great job at eating. I think she is finally eating more than 50% solids now as her poop has finally become solid. Thank goodness.
She waves hi and bye now but not on command only when she decides to.
She says "da da" constantly although I don't think she associates it with her daddy yet.
She enjoys pulling her socks off and holding them while sucking her thumb. It's very comforting to her (strange I know!)
When I say mama to try to get her to say it, she looks at me funny and puts her fingers to my mouth as if she is trying to figure out how I make the noise.
She is not crawling but she can turn herself around and around in a circle on her tummy.
She also likes to do airplane on her tummy where she puts both her legs up and her hands out.
She hasn't figured out how to get back into sitting position and that is very frustrating to her
She's been going to be bed by 7 pm now that she is eating dinner with us and still sleeping great.
Not only does she enjoy removing glasses from our face, she also believes in removing pacifiers from her classmate's mouths. I really think she doesn't believe they should be there. Silly girl!

Here are some photos from the day. Note it was wear your favorite hat day to school and that night we all went out to dinner to celebrate Brian's project being shipped to China after working 12 hour days and many weekends leading up to it. Unfortunately, Madelyn had a blow out that day so we didn't get that many photos of her in her 8 month sticker outfit.