8 months...

 

 Today miss Caroline is 8-months-old! This has been a big, big month for C! She had her first beach vacation, 4th of July celebration, started finger foods, and the biggest accomplishment CRAWLING! Caroline is simply the sweetest baby on this planet (not biased at all hehe). We are so very blessed to have this cute girl  =)

 Sleeping:
 We've had our ups and downs with sleeping this month. We've had a few nights of being up every hour, which are no fun. However, we are now on a new routine where I no longer nurse her to sleep. Now the routine is nurse, then bath, stories, rock/singing, bed. I thought that it would be really hard to break nursing to sleep at night, but nope. She's actually had three of her best nights the past three nights. We also switched to two naps this month which are hit or miss and typically a miss, but oh well.


Eating:
Caroline is a great eater! The big news on the eating front is that she is now eating some finger foods! She was constantly grabbing her spoon and trying to eat the food off of my plate so we started giving her some of her own finger food and she's done great with it! She's had waffles (wheat/egg/dairy/gluten free-they melt quickly), soft pieces of pear, peaches, plums, banana, and sweet potato, puffs, mum-mums, cinnamon toast, and cheerios. I was nervous that this would cause her to start refusing her pureed foods, but she is still eating those like a champ! More big news on eating is that we dropped a feeding and are now on a 4 hour schedule rather than a 3 hour...it is a.w.e.s.o.m.e!



Milestones:

• Clapping her hands (started while we were at the beach)
• Getting into a sitting position from laying down
• Pulls up on her own
• And the biggest..CRAWLING! (July 14)

Randoms/ Things to remember:

• She will "dance" and bounce when you tell her to bounce or play music
• She thinks sneezing and animal sounds are hilarious
• If you ask where someone (daddy/Jackson/Chance) is she starts to look for them
• She is obsessed with the door stoppers and must play with every single one she sees.
• She talks constantly and has a very high pitched babble =)
• Thinks it's hilarious to be told 'no'
• Loves to brush her teeth and gets angry when you take the toothbrush away
• She loves bathtime and kicking and splashing around

Videos from this month: