Jonny 8 Months

She was so over picture time.

So this little girl is 8 months old and has finally decided to start eating.  Sort of.  She only eats one solid food meal a day, at dinnertime, and she only voluntarily eats it about half the time.  Sometimes it's a full out fight but others, she can't eat fast enough.  When she fights it, I still have to force her to eat because she wakes up crying and hungry in the night if I don't.  Also, the chick still has no teeth.  My poor kids will be in third grade by the time they start losing their baby teeth.  Another feeding miracle, she took a bottle.  She stopped taking bottles at two months and has refused every time since.  Then just one of the times I randomly tried, she took it from me and sucked it down like it was nothing.  Huzzah!

She started crawling this month and she pulls herself up to everything!  She's kind of freaking me out with how mobile she is.  I fear she's going to be a bit mischievous.  And of course, now that she's mobile, she's a total stink when it comes to bedtime.  I've had her trained up since birth to be put to bed sleepy and then fall asleep on her own.  Now every time I lay her down she pops right back up again all smiles, like it's some kind of game.  So I have to rock her, which she lately doesn't like either so she screams and cries and tries to push herself away from me.  Basically I wrestle her until she passes out and even then she'll often continue crying or fighting so I keep rocking until all movement stops and most of the time she still pops right back up as soon as I lay her down.  Even if she's still sleeping.  So it takes three or four of these cycles before she stays asleep in her crib.  There have also been many nights lately that she wakes herself up because it seems every time she even moves, it makes her yell/cry which wakes her up.  She's spent a lot of time snuggled up next to me in my bed lately.  And then I forgive her because she's so cute.

She is obsessed with baths and water.  She will fight whatever's holding her back to get to it.  And then she will commence to splashing with vigor!  

She holds her ear when she's nursing and it's adorable.  Either that or she'll find my hair to play with, which I super love because Atticus also loves to play with my hair when he's sleepy.  Another thing she's been doing that I love is, if she's sitting with me and we're holding hands or whatever, she'll search around until she finds my other hand so she can hold it too.  Even if she's already holding something, she'll drop it to hold hands.  I don't know why, but I love that.  

She drools a lot.

 Atticus loves to love on her.

They take over my bed regularly.  Especially when Dan is gone. 

Still hadn't quite worked out how to crawl.

 She loves pulling out the books in Atticus' room.  One of her favorite distractions.

 Chubs.

 This was after Dan had been out of town.

 Atticus sharing his Yankee Blankie

 This was the first day she ate voluntarily.

 Ready for her first 4-wheel ride.

 Love when they sleep like this.

 Hanging out with Avery in their matchiness

Peaking around  me to try and see Jimmy. 

 Countless babies and children have been drawn to that Beeper nose.

 Loving bath time.

Just eating some bubbles.  Why not?  She doesn't eat regular food ever. 

 Impossible to put to bed now that she's so mobile.  Oh and that mobile over the crib, got yanked down by the third day after she figured out how to pull herself up.

 Playing with Dan.

Pulled this off of Instagram.  The way she fights sleeping, snuggles like this are a rarity.