Miss Ava-pie turned 8 months old--last week! I'm finally getting around to posting about the glorious occasion. She's a busy body these days!! Keeps me on my toes for sure! I love this stage--wish she could stay 8 months old forever! She's interactive, playful, cuddly, a copycat, silly, shy, boisterous, curious, and the list goes on and on! We really enjoy her--in case you can't tell :)
So, here's her rundown for the past month ...
*Teeth are coming soon--I know it! I think I've been saying this for the past 4 months, but now I truly believe we are nearing tooth eruption. All the signs have been there (for months now!) but just recently I've noticed that her bottom gum line looks swollen. Maybe by next month we'll have one ... the wait continues. ;)
*This baby girl loves her food! There for a week or so she was being so picky about her bottle and not really drinking more than 3 or 4 ounces at a time, but would gobble up her food with no problem. Well, now she's taking to her bottle again AND really enjoying her food! She L-O-V-E-S bananas. She sees a banana and goes crazy! If I get a banana for myself I better be prepared to share half of it with her. That goes for any food, really. I still have a freezer packed with food, but have been giving her finger foods lately too. She's not quite sure what to do with the food--especially cheerios! She plays with them, sticks them in her mouth, spits them out, puts them back in her mouth, and by this time they are pretty soggy and stick to everything! She loves teething biscuits and ice cubes that we put in her mesh fresh food feeders. She likes pineapple and watermelon in her fresh food feeder, too! We've also been giving her Yo Baby yogurt lately, banana flavored of course, which she loves ;) She still takes bottles too--about four 6 ounce bottles a day.
*She still does the army crawl everywhere! She scoots and rolls and shimmies herself where ever she wants to go. It's her chubby mid-section--can't quite get it off the floor and into the crawling position yet ;) Actually, I take that back, she gets up on 3 limbs...usually one of her legs stays straight and the other one lifts one side of her body off the floor--so strange--she'll get the hang of it! Or, one day she'll just up and start walking and say, "forget that crawling business!" It's pretty humorous to watch for now ... :)
*I did notice today that she has mastered going from a lying-down position to a sitting-up position. She was on her belly playing with the knobs on the coffee table and when I turned back around she was sitting up playing with her toys.
*Ava L-O-V-E-S kids and animals! She is completely content to go anywhere there are children or animals. When we pass kids in the store she's rubbernecking every-which-way trying to keep her little eyeballs on the kiddos. She loves her doggy and kitty. She's always trying to scoot closer to them, and anytime she sees Portia she starts "talking" and squealing and gets the full-body wiggles. When we say, "Where's Portia?" she gets really excited and starts looking around to see if she can find her! Pretty darn cute.
*She needs to upgrade into a bigger car seat! My gosh, I've been saying that for awhile now! Thankfully her growth has slowed down a bit which is giving me time to find a great car seat. I think we are going to go with the First Years True Fit car seat...now I just have to find it in the store somewhere!
*Pretty sure she weighs right around 19-20 lbs. She wears 12 month clothes... some 18 months. Still in size 4 cruisers ... which are still a tad big on her, but I've got boxes of size 4's so we're making them work ;)
*Ava is a chatter box. She jabbers all day long! She likes to say, "da-da", "ma-ma", something that sounds similar to "yuck", and a whole lotta other consonant/vowel combos. She copies us when we make certain sounds, and she plays the coughing game... she coughs, we cough, she coughs, we cough, and so on... and then she giggles. She's been shaking her head "no" lately too. Usually, Eric gets her started and then they go back and forth shaking their heads back and forth ... goofballs :) Her voice sounds so sweet--I love listening to her!
*Another of Ava's loves is being outside. I take her outside and sit her on a blanket and I'm pretty sure she could be out there for hours! She likes to pick at the grass, leaves, dirt--whatever she can get her little fingers on!
*She is at prime "stranger danger" stage, so being around people who are strangers to her makes her a little nervous, but only at first. She's pretty quick to warm up to people. I love how when she's introduced to someone new she buries her little face in my shoulder and snuggles up to me. She's so sweet--I will always protect her! Motherhood is more gratifying with each passing day. She smiles all the time! Just take one look at the girl and she grins from ear to ear! Love her!!
*And our last topic--sleeping. She's been sleeping great lately! No complaints here (knocking on wood). She typically takes 2 naps a day--one around 10 and another around 4 or 5 and then hits the sheets by 8 usually. Ava has a couple favorite blankets that she really likes going to bed with. They have a tag and she goes to town sucking on the tag and that puts her right to sleep! Bizarre. We lay her in her crib for naps and almost as soon as she gets ahold of her blanket she is asleep! It's pretty sad to me that I don't HAVE to rock her before her naps anymore ... that phase went by way too quickly!! Now she almost prefers that we just lay her down with her blanket to go to sleep. I love just watching her sleep though ... at least she can't outgrow that!
So, here's her rundown for the past month ...
*Teeth are coming soon--I know it! I think I've been saying this for the past 4 months, but now I truly believe we are nearing tooth eruption. All the signs have been there (for months now!) but just recently I've noticed that her bottom gum line looks swollen. Maybe by next month we'll have one ... the wait continues. ;)
*This baby girl loves her food! There for a week or so she was being so picky about her bottle and not really drinking more than 3 or 4 ounces at a time, but would gobble up her food with no problem. Well, now she's taking to her bottle again AND really enjoying her food! She L-O-V-E-S bananas. She sees a banana and goes crazy! If I get a banana for myself I better be prepared to share half of it with her. That goes for any food, really. I still have a freezer packed with food, but have been giving her finger foods lately too. She's not quite sure what to do with the food--especially cheerios! She plays with them, sticks them in her mouth, spits them out, puts them back in her mouth, and by this time they are pretty soggy and stick to everything! She loves teething biscuits and ice cubes that we put in her mesh fresh food feeders. She likes pineapple and watermelon in her fresh food feeder, too! We've also been giving her Yo Baby yogurt lately, banana flavored of course, which she loves ;) She still takes bottles too--about four 6 ounce bottles a day.
*She still does the army crawl everywhere! She scoots and rolls and shimmies herself where ever she wants to go. It's her chubby mid-section--can't quite get it off the floor and into the crawling position yet ;) Actually, I take that back, she gets up on 3 limbs...usually one of her legs stays straight and the other one lifts one side of her body off the floor--so strange--she'll get the hang of it! Or, one day she'll just up and start walking and say, "forget that crawling business!" It's pretty humorous to watch for now ... :)
*I did notice today that she has mastered going from a lying-down position to a sitting-up position. She was on her belly playing with the knobs on the coffee table and when I turned back around she was sitting up playing with her toys.
*Ava L-O-V-E-S kids and animals! She is completely content to go anywhere there are children or animals. When we pass kids in the store she's rubbernecking every-which-way trying to keep her little eyeballs on the kiddos. She loves her doggy and kitty. She's always trying to scoot closer to them, and anytime she sees Portia she starts "talking" and squealing and gets the full-body wiggles. When we say, "Where's Portia?" she gets really excited and starts looking around to see if she can find her! Pretty darn cute.
*She needs to upgrade into a bigger car seat! My gosh, I've been saying that for awhile now! Thankfully her growth has slowed down a bit which is giving me time to find a great car seat. I think we are going to go with the First Years True Fit car seat...now I just have to find it in the store somewhere!
*Pretty sure she weighs right around 19-20 lbs. She wears 12 month clothes... some 18 months. Still in size 4 cruisers ... which are still a tad big on her, but I've got boxes of size 4's so we're making them work ;)
*Ava is a chatter box. She jabbers all day long! She likes to say, "da-da", "ma-ma", something that sounds similar to "yuck", and a whole lotta other consonant/vowel combos. She copies us when we make certain sounds, and she plays the coughing game... she coughs, we cough, she coughs, we cough, and so on... and then she giggles. She's been shaking her head "no" lately too. Usually, Eric gets her started and then they go back and forth shaking their heads back and forth ... goofballs :) Her voice sounds so sweet--I love listening to her!
*Another of Ava's loves is being outside. I take her outside and sit her on a blanket and I'm pretty sure she could be out there for hours! She likes to pick at the grass, leaves, dirt--whatever she can get her little fingers on!
*She is at prime "stranger danger" stage, so being around people who are strangers to her makes her a little nervous, but only at first. She's pretty quick to warm up to people. I love how when she's introduced to someone new she buries her little face in my shoulder and snuggles up to me. She's so sweet--I will always protect her! Motherhood is more gratifying with each passing day. She smiles all the time! Just take one look at the girl and she grins from ear to ear! Love her!!
*And our last topic--sleeping. She's been sleeping great lately! No complaints here (knocking on wood). She typically takes 2 naps a day--one around 10 and another around 4 or 5 and then hits the sheets by 8 usually. Ava has a couple favorite blankets that she really likes going to bed with. They have a tag and she goes to town sucking on the tag and that puts her right to sleep! Bizarre. We lay her in her crib for naps and almost as soon as she gets ahold of her blanket she is asleep! It's pretty sad to me that I don't HAVE to rock her before her naps anymore ... that phase went by way too quickly!! Now she almost prefers that we just lay her down with her blanket to go to sleep. I love just watching her sleep though ... at least she can't outgrow that!
*I think that covers the major stuff ... there is a lot more to mention but I don't have the gumption for it right now--dinner awaits!
*By the way, Ava's tear duct is still clogged! It gets pretty bad some days--especially with all the allergens in the air! Her eye waters and waters and waters and we keep wiping and wiping which isn't the best thing for it sometimes because the wiping action can irritate her skin. She doesn't seem to be bothered by it. I was talking to an ophthalmologist at work and asked him if I should be concerned that it still hasn't opened on its own, and he said it's really no big deal and it will eventually open on its own, maybe even after she's a year old. Well, okay doc!
Playing on her boppy ... she has always loved that thing!
She's about due for some big girl toys!
Ava loves Portia ...
I do love a messy baby face ...
Momma and munchkin
A messy combination of teething biscuit, cheerios, and corn on the cob that she snatched off my plate. Lil stinker!
Swiping daddy's bright yellow hat off his head to investigate!
"Okay dad, I don't want this thing on anymore!"
Our Sweet Boo Bear O:-)
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