Lucy at 8 months

She is loads of fun all the time. I just can't get enough of her. Here is what she is up to:

Crawling

She has been doing it for about a week now, and getting better and better at it. She mostly loves crawling to the high chair and pushing it around a bit, to the shoe closet, and wherever Rosie's snacks and juice happens to be. Lucy also climbs all over Rose's little chair whether Rose is sitting on it or not. And though it's hard to believe it's possible, the girls have been having even more fun together since Lucy has been mobile: laughing and rough housing hysterically. I have trouble getting anything done sometimes because all I want to do is watch them. The one down side of Lucy's crawling skills, is that she is determined to put everything in her mouth, and there always seems to be something she finds that I have to swipe out before she chokes.

Food

Lucy loves to eat. Enough said. After the terrible battles with Rosie, we prayed and prayed that our next baby would actually like to eat. And the Lord has kindly answered our prayers. We are in the pureed baby food and puff cereal stage and it's loads of fun. She eats pretty much anything we give her and stays happy as long as the spoon keeps coming to her mouth and she can keep one eye on her big sis at all times. She's getting better at picking up her little puff cereal, but is not as coordinated as Rose was at this age. She still nurses a lot, but it is nice to be able to give her other food especially when we're out and about.

Sleeping

Lucy takes three naps now and sleeps anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours. Sometimes she falls asleep before I finish nursing her, but if not, I just put her in crib and let her put herself to sleep. If she's really having a hard time though, Andrew has perfected a crib rocking method that works really well. At night she sleeps from about 7:30-6:30 and only nurses once or twice. She sleeps in our room during the day, and then we move her crib out to the living room at night.

Teeth

Lucy just cut her third tooth TODAY! Obviously just in time for her 8 month birthday and this blog post. She got her 2 front bottom teeth when she was about six months and now has her third coming in on the bottom as well right next to the others, which is a little surprising since they usually have the next ones be the top front teeth. But her little toothy grin is always to die for.

Babbling

She isn't much of a babbler. She occasionally says bababa, but that's about it. I'm pretty sure Rose was saying mamama and dadada by this point. But whenever I babble to her to get her to start, she just laughs and laughs. So I think she must think it is too silly or something and will skip the baby babble and move onto words in a few months.

Other Random Facts

She can be really snuggly, especially when she wakes up. And she has a bashful side that is so cute. She is pretty content to play on the floor with toys as long as she doesn't see Mommy. In fact, I end up hiding from her a lot or Andrew will have her play with her back to me so that she doesn't see me. She's really strong and wiggly. Sometimes it is like a wrestling match when you hold her or are trying to get a new diaper on. She's always flailing and kicking, and grabbing my lip and hair while I nurse her. In fact, she even knocked my contact out of my eye when I was nursing her one time. I'm still not sure how that happened. But she really knows how to hold her own against her big sister.