Eight Months Old

This has been a super exciting month for Elizabeth! As you can see, she has figured out how to sit herself up! She'd been doing it for about a week before she realized she could do it in her crib too. She actually figured this out at the lake last week when Mimi was hanging out with her. E was taking a nap and all of a sudden Mimi heard the mobile music. She walked in and E was sitting up with her hand on the button turning it on! She had turned on the mobile! After we got home and found she could do it here too, we removed the mobile from the bed. Bye bye friends!

The other big news is teeth! Unfortunately I don't have any pictures yet, but we have one which has absolutely come through and a second one that we can see but not yet feel. But man, if we thought we had seen teething discomfort before now, boy were we wrong! Poor baby has been MISERABLE for about a week now. Soooo unhappy. I even took her to the doctor just to make sure she didn't have an ear infection. But nope...just those horrible teeth! Today was actually the first day she's been a little bit back to her old self. Goodness.

So we chew on our hands a lot right now.

And poor baby has her momma's sensitive and fair skin. After a trip in the car to the lake, baby had gotten pretty hot and was red and splotchy all over. The first time she got a little warm at school they called me saying she had a rash. Now they know that's just her skin! So when we got to the lake we played under the fan in our diaper to cool off.

Just a picture I like.

She's not crawling yet, but getting so close. She lurches forward from a sitting position and gets on her hands and knees for a bit trying to figure out what to do next. Usually she ends up on her belly. The kitties are giving her good incentive to figure it out though - she really wants those kitties!

And she is sleeping through the night almost every night now! It's just amazing. I know some babies figure this out at like 2 months, but it took us a bit longer. We're just happy it finally happened!

What a big girl!

A Visit with Juliette and Pete and Jess

Saturday we had a good visit with our friend Juliette and her momma and daddy. Juliette was the happiest little girl - Elizabeth was not. But we had a few minutes of playing before Elizabeth decided she had had enough. What a sweetie!

And Juliette can army crawl all over the place! It was amazing - Elizabeth looked on in awe!

Thanks for coming over to play! We promise to be less grumpy next time!

Finger Paintin'

This week we are taking our "Staycation". A few days at home and then a few days at the lake. But we wanted to do some extra fun things, so I bought us some finger paints! I decided this was an activity best done sans clothes (for Elizabeth at least). I didn't get pictures of it, but later on she stuck her face in the paint, then put her hands in her mouth. It says its nontoxic! She had a really good time. And so did we.

Puffs!

Elizabeth has figured out how to get the Puffs to her mouth (sometimes). Even a week ago they all ended up on the floor. All of a sudden, some get to her mouth!

A Visit with Mamie and Poppa

Sunday we went and visited Mamie and Poppa. Elizabeth had so much fun! And I think Mamie and Poppa did too!

And then Elizabeth found Poppa's shoes! She had soooo much fun - for like 15 minutes. Who knew shoes were so fun!

4th of July Fun

We had a very busy and fun 4th of July weekend. On Friday, we went down to Mimi and Pa-Paw's lakehouse - and Alec was there!





And Isaac too! Look at all the babies!





Hi Alec!

Hi Isaac!

Mimi with all three babies. (And we love our ducky tub so much, we got one for the lakehouse too! And we gave it its own chair...)

And we went swimmin'. The boys put their toes in, but Elizabeth put her whole bottom in.

What a cutie cousin Alec is!

And Isaac too!

Then on Saturday, Elizabeth put her 4th of July watermelon dress on! I coordinated my outfit to go with her.

Then we went over to the other lake house to see cousin Boston!

Here we are with cousin Boston and his momma Jen.

Here we were last year at this event - pregnant with the sweet babies.

There are the babies and their Daddies.

Family portrait.

Hey Boston! Look at you standing up!

Look Boston - I've learned how to clap!

Yep, I can clap!

Wait - you can crawl?

And pull yourself up? How'd you do that??? I'll give you a round of applause!

And Elizabeth got to swim in the lake with her Daddy.

Cousin Boston swam too!

Then we came back to Mimi and Pa-Paw's house and saw Aunt Jana. And we learned that Elizabeth's patch of white blonde hair at the back of her red head isn't so strange - red-headed Aunt Jana has it too!

Eric hung out with Alec.

And I got to hang with Isaac and Elizabeth!

We played cards too.

And before we left on Sunday Pa-Paw took us all on a boat ride.

What a busy and fun weekend!