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8 months

so here we are at 8 months and loving life!
Ruby Belle gets so much more fun and is showing much more personality each day!! here's what it looks like at 8 months...

• crawling everywhere! She loves to crawl around and chase Maggie...Maggie doesn't like it so much and runs away
• pulling up on anything and everything!
• super curious and loves to play, even plays well by herself
• Loves to chew up magazines!
• babbling w/the best of them, but only at home really...she gets shy around people she doesn't know.
• now experiencing a little separation anxiety...often when i walk out of the room at home she screams (even if daddy is around)
• Holds her own bottle
• loves to eat baby foods: cereal, sweet potatoes, green beans, green peas, some fruits
• doesn't like to eat: lasagna, some fruits
• eats 5 times a day now: 8:30am 7oz breast milk and some fruit at daycare, 11:30-12, 7oz milk and some rice/oatmeal cereal, 3:00pm 7oz of cereal, 5:30-6:00pm, 7oz of breast milk at home and some veggies or sweet potatoes, 8pm 7oz of breast milk
• bedtime: 8:15-8:30pm
• wakes up between 6:30-7:30am (of course, it's 6:30 on the weekends!)
• still wearing cloth diapers and size 3 Pampers
• still wearing size 6-9month clothes
• has 2 teeth!

as you can see, these pictures are getting harder and harder to take because she is SO active!! so, action shots it is!

another first!

Ruby Belle officially has her first tooth today!!! it seems like she's been teething since she was 3 months old, but never was it bad. i'm not sure all teeth will be this easy, but there's always hope! ha!

and now that she's been crawling for a month she's gotten really good at pulling up on stuff! she's SUCH a busy girl these days! and SO many milestones lately!!

here's the run down of where we are:

- Laughs when tickled and when you make funny noises with her
-loves to babble...especially "dadadada" :) we're working on "mama"
-likes to sweetly scream when she wants you to watch her play
-still loves her exersaucer...wishes it would bounce, but doesn't love the jumper thing yet
-smiles all the time
-crawling with the best of them
-pulling up on waist high items and in the pack 'n play
-and SO proud of herself when she does all of this!!
-likes to go for walks (and i love my baby jogger!)
-SO intrigued with Keek (cat) and Maggie (dog), smiles and laughs when she sees them and wants to pet (grab) them...they aren't quite as interested in her. :(
-LOVES to stand up while holding onto our leather ottoman/"cubes" and chew on the leather (our dog doesn't chew, our daughter does!)
-we think she has allergies (like her mom and dad)
-wearing 6-9 month clothes
-still doing cloth diapers...but only at home (day care won't do them), so we do size 3 Pampers (Huggies don't cut it)
-eats 6 times a day, has cereal (rice/oatmeal) once a day along w/a bottle and has veggies once a day when she gets home from daycare (snack before dinner)
-loves green beans, green peas, squash.
-will eat sweet potatoes
-won't touch carrots or the peaches/banana/rice cereal mixture
-still thinking about making my own babyfood, but just haven't made it happen
-last bottle (breast milk - have been exclusively pumping and bottle feeding since about 3 months) is at 8pmish and then straight to bed
-she goes down almost always w/o a peep
-best baby ever!! (we're kinda partial!)