Our little baby girl is growing up fast! I now understand why my dad always joked about trying to find the stop button when we were growing up. I am amazed at how much Sophie changes daily, she is learning so much. I put her on the scale the other day because it felt like she was heavier, she now weighs 15 pounds, that’s a big jump since has been sitting at 14 pounds for a few months now.
AT EIGHT MONTHS OLD
Sophie has learned to (or rather started the process of) crawling. She gets caught up in her legs most of the time but she has started to be a little more mobile. She is also getting pretty good at scooting around on her rear-end while sitting up.
She still has only two teeth
She is getting really good at copying us with sounds we make. Stewart taught her to stick her tongue out and blow, smack her lips together, and make a squeaky noise after he does it. It is kind of funny for now, although one day it may become annoying.
She loves it when Stewart and I turn on the music and start to dance around with her.
She is a lot like her mom in the fact that we both love to look at ourselves in the mirror a lot.
Sophie is learning to eat better, she loves to eat an apple slice and use her bottom teeth to shave off small pieces. The apple slice to me takes on a characteristic of an apple being nibbled on by a mouse.
She is such a happy baby hardly ever crying unless she is tired. She wears a smile a majority of the time.
When she wakes up she does not cry out for us to come get her, she just starts kicking and talking to herself until we poke our head in to see if she is awake.
She loves to help me make dinner, often I will put her on the counter with me when I am cooking and she loves to help me put some of the ingredients in. She is lots of fun to bake with when there is flour involved.
She still loves people although she is getting kind of clingy and won’t go to people as often as she did before.
She has big blue eyes that sparkle, when we are out in the community several people stop and talk with her always commenting on her blue eyes. I have had several people tell me she is a “doll baby” I don’t know quite what that means, although it is said as a complement.
I took some fun 8 month pictures of Sophie on our back steps in our new home, she was so fun to photograph as she knows what the camera is and loves to pose for the picture. She is such a little ham and we love her to pieces, we have been richly blessed by having her in our family.
Sophie crawling for the first time on June 17, 2011
(this face is becoming one of her favorite smiles to use when we take pictures)
