8 Months Old

Peyton turned 8 months old today!

She has changed so much this past month and mostly in these past two weeks that she is a completely different baby almost.

She is so much more mobile. She wants to move constantly and will wiggle, roll, crawl backwards, reach and anything else to keep moving. As soon as she figures out the rest of the details associated with crawling I know she will be trouble. She also constantly is looking for something else. She is so much more aware of what is around her and will go for anything. Many times that is the one thing she shouldn't be playing with so it is a little crazy trying to keep things away from her. She is also moving when she is going to sleep which means you need to check more on her when she is crying because many times she has flipped herself on her stomach and can't get back over.

She is doing great with solids and is eating twice a day about half a jar (2 ounces) mixed with oatmeal or rice cereal. She loves Sweet Potatoes and just tried Winter Squash today with good reviews. She is doing great with opening her mouth and letting me feed her and is a champ! She still loves her cup and is getting better and better about keeping more in her mouth and not on her bib.

Peyton is starting to babble like you wouldn't believe. She is stringing together an assortment of consonant sounds and many times you will hear her doing something like this, "baaaaadaaaewaodamaaabaaadaa," or something like that! No "dada" or "mama" but those building blocks are there and I am sure it won't be long. Today she was even reading her book! Kind of...she was looking at her Baby Einstein "My First Words" and she would turn a page, make a string of random sounds while pointing at stuff and then stop, turn the page and repeat. It was awesome! She also was reading another book today that has touch and feel pages and for the first time was actually really focusing on feeling the stuff. She is even starting to turn the pages one by one instead of just eating the book!

She is also standing more and more and loves to push her self up on you to stand up. She will even start grabbing at our ottoman trying to pull herself up which she can't do yet so we help her up and she will hold herself up and play with toys up there. She is really starting to enjoy her little toy table.


I am sure I could go on and on about how much she has grown but honestly so much has happened it is hard to keep everything straight. She is just so much fun to play with and we are always laughing! I know though that if I have seen a such a big change in appearance and development in such a short time her Granny will be in disbelief when she gets back from vacation!

Tomorrow we will be attempting another big milestone...mostly for mommy....leaving Peyton with strangers (daycare really didn't count and neither does the church nursery). I will be using the Kiddie Korner at the gym I go to and leaving Peyton there for the first time. I am going to try it out and probably check on her every 10 minutes at first but using that service would be such a big help. I go to the gym now after she goes to bed which is late and normally means I skip so it would be helpful to be able to do that during the day. We will see how it goes....I am nervous/sick to my stomach!