Brock & Kim Belnap: 8 Months and Cruising!

Monday, March 18, 2013

8 Months and Cruising!

Today is Blakely's eight month marker and the biggest and newest thing she is doing is crawling. I think she does it mostly out of necessity and would much rather be walking if she could:) She has just started moving from room to room and around the furniture. She has gotten her first bumps and bruises on her head since she is now mobile. It's fun to watch her move from toy to toy and to come to us when she wants us. Today we were in her room playing and she heard her daddy come home and she booked it down the hall to find him fussing the whole way. It's fun to have her expressing herself in a new way.
She is also enjoying trying more foods and learning fine motor skills while trying to feed herself. Sometimes she gets the little pieces to her mouth and most of the time she doesn't. ( work in progress I suppose). We've let her sample food off of our plate and now she is like another puppy beggin for food at dinner:) She grunts, leans or cries to get some of our food. It's fun to watch her sample new foods.
Also, she is sleeping much better, which awesome. Some nights she sleeps all night and others she is up a time or two. I'm just grateful to have a full night a couple nights a week! I'm getting ready to switch things up so we'll see how it goes.
Anyway, she is just an awesome happy little gal. She loves to smile and be social with most people, which I love. We are having loads of fun with her!

Smiley-a variety of expressions and smiles. She has a silly crooked smile that seems like a courtesy smile.

Chatty

Growls

Crawls

Loves to have us help her walk around

Loves cereal, bottles, nursing, snacks, baby food

Helps with the dishes

Stands up in her crib-cute when she is happy but not so much when it's the middle of the night and she won't lay down to sleep.

Sleeps on her tummy wedged in the corner of the crib

Loves baths

Loves church

Loves Super Why