Eight Months Old

Audrey is now 8 months old. She has learned a lot of new things in the past month and seems to be growing up more and more each day. Here's a quick rundown on her latest developments (I'm putting this here now, so I will remember it all when I get around to filling out her baby book later!) Pictures are at the end of all my rambling!

Weight: According to the Wii Fit, she is 17.2 pounds today. She is wearing all 6-9 month clothes now and size 3 diapers. Next month we have a dr's appointment, so we will get her official weight and height and all of that fun stuff then.

Sitting: Audrey is now a pro at sitting up. She can lean over and turn around to reach toys without falling over. She can go from a sitting position to a crawling position.

Crawling: She's not crawling yet though. She gets up on all fours, and sometimes rocks back and forth, but quickly falls back down on her stomach. She did start to do a little army crawling yesterday, trying to reach Maggie. I think Maggie is going to be the one that finally gets her to crawl. Poor Maggie, she's always going to be on the run once Audrey starts being able to chase after her.

Babbling: She is talking up a storm now...Baba, Dada, Gaga, Yaya, etc. She still makes the funny trill/bird call noise occasionally.

Teeth: Audrey still doesn't have any teeth! For the past 4 months, people have looked at her chomping on her hands and drooling and have been telling me, "She is going to have a tooth soon, I'm sure of it." Well, after four months of hearing this, I'm starting to wonder if she will ever get any teeth. I'll believe it when I see it!

Eating: Audrey has become a very good eater and will eat most everything we give her now. She has tried most of the fruit and vegetable baby foods, and this week I started giving her some meats. (chicken mixed with veggies, and she seems to like it so far.) She is starting to figure out the "pincer" grip, where she can pick up food with her thumb and index finger and get it into her mouth. She's pretty good at eating her puffs (I'd say about 50-75% of them end up in her mouth). I've also given her some little pieces of banana, and tonight at dinner I gave her some tiny pieces of bread and watermelon. She seems to like it all. I'm still a little nervous about giving her "real" food...but we're slowly working the finger foods into her diet.

OK, now for the pictures!!



I am Audrey, hear me roar!

She was distracted by Maggie, as usual.

Trying to crawl away from all these pictures!

This is one of my favorite faces! It's often accompanied by a very cute "oh" sound!

Audrey's Favorite Face

Audrey makes this face a lot! What a silly girl!

We've been busy!

The past week has been crazy. We spent last Sunday-Wednesday at church camp helping with a 3rd-4th grade week. Then on Thursday night we went to Indianapolis to see our friends the Bungards, go to see Wicked and hang out with Daniel's family for their annual Backyard Bash. In the midst of all that, we had a gas leak (which got fixed today, hopefully it won't cost us too much money!). Last night I started helping with our church's Garage-a-palooza, a weeklong activities camp for kids. And tonight Daniel starts practice for the Producers (he's running sound for the show). It is crazy around here!!! I have pictures from camp and our Indianapolis trip here for anyone who would like to see them.

Audrey's new thing to do when she eats is to blow raspberries and spit all of her food at you. It is not a fun game for Mommy and Daddy. I've been telling her "no" in a stern voice when she does it. But she thinks that is the funniest thing in the world, giving me a huge smile and giggles. And then I crack up laughing. As annoying as it is, it's still pretty cute, I just had to get my camera out to take a picture the other day, even though that's probably just encouraging her to keep doing it.

She really likes to stick her tongue out these days.I think she looks a lot like Daniel in this picture
She wore a new outfit to church on Sunday and a new hair bow (thanks to Aunt Nancy, who has made so many cute bows for Audrey!).

A few videos

I've got a few videos to share tonight, if I have the patience to wait for Blogger to upload them. It takes forever. But we just started watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, so I have at least 3 solid hours to sit here and wait!

Here is Audrey playing in her jumper the other night.

Audrey has started to make this really funny sound. It's like a high pitched trill with her tongue. People have compared it to a bird call. She does it all the time, and she has both a happy and a mad version. This is the happy version (I feel a little guilty video taping her when she is mad).

And one last one...this one's my favorite. The other night we were trying to teach Audrey how to say Mama, Dada, Maggie, etc. When Daniel said Maggie, Audrey cracked up. He said it again; she cracked up again. And on and on it went. I started video taping several minutes after this started, and she was still going strong. I'm telling you, she loves that dog.