My baby girl turns 8 months old today, two thirds of her first year! Any moment now she’s going to realize that she can indeed walk without holding onto us and just take off. She let’s go all the time and walks where she wants to and can easily make tracks using one of her push carts. She’s accross the room before I can even blink already. I pretty much know I need to check on her when things get quiet, as she’s probably trying to eat the couch stuffing or something. She is definitely not going to crawl anytime soon. She has learned how to push herself up to a standing position from her belly or sitting, so there’s nothing stopping her except confidence and maybe some more strength.

Josie isn’t making particularly clear sounds but she likes to talk and sing with us. She especially loves when we mimic her sounds and motions right back to her. It can turn a whine into a big smile!

She is improving on her fine motor skills in her play and eating. She can pick things up very accurately and she likes to play with the small parts of her toys. She’s got some other cute habits now as well, but I’ll leave those as a surprise for some other posts!

One great thing that has changed is that she doesn’t completely hate her new car seat, and she will actually fall asleep in it relatively peacefully at times. It’s not perfect, but it’s a major improvement.

• Size/weight: size 12 month one pieces, size 9 month separates; Probably about 28 inches tall and 16.5 lbs
• Favorite food: breastmilk, really enjoying sweet potatoes, potatoes and carrots
• Favorite toy: rody the jumping horse and her push and ride cart; egg maraca
• Favorite book: baby cakes
• Favorite activity: pushing her cart around the house; kissing cats and babies
• Sleeping: bedtime ~7:30; two or three half hour naps unless we’re in the car and then they’ll last an hour; wakes up 6am
• New skill: pushing up to standing from her tummy
• Teeth: 1!!! front bottom right; crazy tons of drooling, wouldn’t be surprised if more come in very soon
• Vocalizations: lots of grrrr, especially at her food

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