Tales from the Crib: 8 months old!

Today Sophia turned 8 months old! We have had an exciting and busy past month. The day she turned 7 months, she rolled over (yes, finally!). At the same time, she really became interested in playing with and eating her feet. Her personality has really started to show during this past month. She has become very chatty and makes the sounds ya, da, ba and ha, her favorite being da da da. She loves to laugh when we tickle her or do silly things. She has also realized that she has control over the volume of her voice and sometimes will whisper and other times will yell (she likes to do this out in public!). Sophia loves to play, and likes to drop her toys on the floor so we have to pick them back up for her. She is not yet crawling, but when she tries to go forward to get something, she goes backwards instead! She is also pretty good at rotating herself clockwise to get something that she wants.

This month we introduced Sophia to puffs. For most of the month she would eat them when we fed them to her. But last week she figured out how to pick them up on her own. Now she can't get enough of them! She went through a whole container in a week! She's tried a lot of new foods this month too...apricots, peas, carrots, mangos, barley, spinach, and potatoes. She likes to share my food with me too. At breakfast I'll pinch off a little bite of banana and feed it to her. A few days ago, I held a piece of peach up to her mouth and she loved sucking on it. She has also had little pieces of green bean and pieces of freeze dried pears.

Sharing Mommy's peach

Sophia loves to play with anything that she isn't supposed to have. Two of her favorites are our cell phones and computers. I bought her her own toy cell phone and laptop and she has had lots of fun playing with them. When we take her out to restaurants, her favorite thing to play with is a napkin. She loves to tear it into pieces, and it will keep her entertained for 2o mins!

Happy baby!