8 Months Old

It’s not fair, time is flying by way too fast and it seems every time I blink she is a month older. Everyone told me to cherish every moment because they grow so fast and I never really understood until now. Her personality is developing more and more everyday and it is becoming increasingly harder to drop her off at daycare. I feel like I am missing out on so much, thankfully I can watch her during the day so that helps ease the pain a little. Now when I pick her up from daycare she bounces up and down with this huge smile on her face and says hi mom (not really, its more like gibberish talk, but if I talked gibberish that’s what it would translate to). She is just so stinking cute and so incredibly happy. We have been blessed with such a happy, easy going baby and I am so grateful.

8 month highlights:

* Still no crawling, but we are working on it. She obviously has her mother’s stubbornness, we try bribing her with stuff to crawl and she looks at us like we are crazy.

* According to our last visit, she only has about 2 – 3 weeks left in the helmet. I can’t wait to not have hard plastic in the way of kissing her sweet cheeks.

* Weight is 18lbs and some change (Dad does not remember from her visit on Tuesday……….men)

* Length we don’t know for sure but I can tell you she is long.

* She has just started clapping and is so proud of herself.

* She talks and babbles a ton of course her favorite word is dadadadada!

Girls just wanna have fun!!!!!!

Tomorrow night is our annual girl Christmas party and this year we are shaking things up. Instead of bringing our favorite dish to whoever is hosting we are going out to dinner and then over to Erica’s house to do the gift exchange. Oh and dinner happens to be at a restaurant I have been dying to try, Piranhas. If you know me you know I love sushi, yeah I know it still puzzles people with all my weird food aversions, but I LOVE, love, love sushi. Luckily all my girlfriends share my passion except for Tawna, but she is a trooper and always comes along and just tries to find a non fish dinner option. Erica promises there is non fish options and let’s hope so or Tawna might be having a liquid dinner. J Speaking of Tawna and her dislike for sushi we made her try some when we were in Mexico (yeah weird place I know, but it was surprisingly good) and oh how I wish I could have videotaped her reaction. I thought she was going to hurl at the table, but she held it together. Anyways I am sure there will be lots of laughter and good times had by all, I am sure I will have pictures to share, but for now here is some pictures from last year. Last years theme was tacky Christmas sweater, and while it was fun I was also 4.5 months pregnant.

Tawna being shy as usual!

Sick and tired

So sickness has invaded our house for the past two weeks and I am finally getting over a serious sinus infection. It all started the Wednesday before Thanksgiving when we found out Sophia had double ear infections and croup. She was on breathing treatments for 8 days, 4 times a day....... yeah that was easy. Then the Saturday following Thanksgiving I started feeling yucky and then it progressively became worse. Of course Eric was only sick for like a day.... yeah not cool. Not that I wish sickness on him, but it is just no fair. :) Of course during all of this Sophia is also teething and looks to be cutting her eye tooth any day now. My perfect sleeper is no longer sleeping through the night and is waking a few times. I just keep telling myself this too shall pass and I will get more than 5 hours of sleep someday.

Christmas Photos

Now that the Christmas cards are in the mail, I can finally post our wonderful pictures by the ever talented Mike and ReJana of Bludoor Studios. We are always so pleased with the pictures they take and once again they did not disappoint. Sophia absolutely loved Santa (this is the same Santa from last years pictures where he had his ear up to my belly) and he was excited to meet her.
Hope you guys enjoy!