While we were in Texas, Ally celebrated 8 months. In the last month she has just taken off- literally! She is now crawling full speed ahead in all directions and is trying as hard as she can to pull herself up onto her feet. She also has one tooth and a second is coming through this week. She is so busy and is getting difficult to keep up with, you can't leave her alone for a second or she is into something else. Her current favorites are crawling under the kitchen table, emptying her toy basket, emptying Ella's toy basket and turning on the playstation. She also loves going for walks and playing on the swings at the park next to our apartment.
As Ally gets more independent, feeding her has actually become sort of a challenge because she wants to do it herself. She loves finger foods like bread and cheerios so she gets frustrated with being fed off a spoon. She doesn't really like putting soft/mushy foods like bananas in her mouth herself yet so we have the be patient and mix some of the things she can feed herself in with her pureed foods off a spoon. We are going to start expanding her menu to include more proteins and more small pieces of soft fruits and veggies to help her feed herself. She is still working on the sippy cup and its pretty slow going. Although she can hold her own bottle she prefers not to and its the same with the cup.
Sleeping is still about the same and we have a pretty solid routine. She fights naps a little sometimes but she is consistently sleeping 10 hours a night (9:30pm to about 7:30am) and takes a short nap in the morning and a little longer one in the afternoon if I'm lucky. She definitely has those days though where she refuses to nap other than a half hour around 11am and those are tough because she gets crazy by dinner time.
The best thing about Allyson is her smile and her funny little laugh. She thinks just about everything is funny so she can be entertained fairly easy. She moves quickly from one toy to the next but she really likes standing on your lap and doing hand motions to the Itsy Bitsy Spider and Wheels on the Bus. We can get her laughing hard when we look away from her and then look back quickly and say boo or push her away in the stroller and sneak up on her. She jumps a little but laughs like crazy. We have been going to the YMCA a few days a week and next week she starts swimming lessons there. We have found a new pediatrician for her in town and her first visit with him will be at 9 months. She seems to have slowed down in terms of growth so we will see. Here are some pictures from this month to enjoy:
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Here are a few early feeding tricks I learned with the boys.
- She may eat better off a spoon if you giver her one of her own to hold. John would let me feed him if he had his own spoon to hold.
- Babies can eat ANYTHING as long as it is soft enough and small enough. I HATE baby food so my guys ate pureed foods just long enough to learn to not thrust their tongues.
- The Ziploc steamer bags are perfect for really softening up vegetables. Pete's favorite when he was first getting teeth? REally soft red peppers, no joke.
- Once she has the sippy cup mastered try to get her to learn about straws. It can be tough, but then they can have so much more. Smoothies, drinkable yogurt, milkshakes - she'll love it all.
- Really sticky oatmeal is perfect for the first "here use a spoon meals". It won't fall off the spoon.
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