8 months!

November 22 marked Brynn's 8 month birthday!  Last Thanksgiving and Christmas when I was pregnant I remember thinking "wow...this time next year we are going to have an 8/9 month old during the holidays."  I can't believe that time is already here! 



 Month 8 has been a BIG month!  Here are some highlights...

• Brynn weighs about 19 pounds.
• She is wearing mostly 6-9 month clothes, although we've put her in a few things that say 12 month.
• She is in size 3 diapers.
• She started CLAPPING!  She loves to do it all the time! HA!
• She has become more vocal, and says "mamamamama!"  I know she probably doesn't associate it with me yet, but to hear her say "mamama" is so exciting! 
• She army crawls all over the place and can put herself in a sitting position, to a crawling position, back to a sitting position.  She likes to stand up, but can't pull herself up yet.
• She likes to feed herself puffs.
• She went to her first "concert".  Travis Cottrell came to our church and performed with our choir and she LOVED it.  When we were sitting, Ryan would hold her in a standing position and she just looked and clapped the whole time! 
• She has started sitting in her crib...sometimes she will sit before she falls asleep, but most of the time when she wakes up she sits and plays until we go get her. 
• She "tries" to drink from her sippy cup.  She will hold it and get water out of it, but usually spits it out and soaks her clothes! HA!
• She loves to play peek-a-boo and knock down my "block towers."  She loves to play with her soft babies and with the brush and comb.  She LOVES this musical table thing we have downstairs.  She is so content to play with people or play independently.
• She dropped her last catnap around Halloween. 
• Typical schedule...we go get her around 7 (toward the end of this month most days she has been sitting up awake when we go get her) and she takes a bottle around 7:30, then oatmeal and fruit.  Morning nap for an hour to an hour and a half (starting at 9 or 9:15), bottle around 11:30 or 12, with veggies.  Afternoon nap for about 2 hours starting at 1.  Bottle around 4:30, then veggies and fruit.  Then around 6ish when we eat she gets a bowl of oatmeal.  I nurse around 7:45 or 8 and she is asleep by 8:30. 
• She is just so much fun!  We love to take her on errands because she loves to sit in the shopping cart and look around.  We were definitely blessed with a happy baby and we love her little personality so much!   

Brynn you are amazing and we love you so much!  Happy 8 months!