Baby Kaylee {8 Months}

 

 This past month has been so much fun! Kaylee is playing and learning and growing. She gives lots of smiles and everyone says what a happy baby she is! 

 She loves to laugh and smile and give hugs. 

 ::8 Month Favorites:: 

 1) Climbing - She loves to climb on the couch, on mom, on dad, on the bed, on her toys, the exersaucer...etc. She tries to climb anything she can get her hands on. 

 2) Light up toys - She got her first light up toys this month. One is a borrowed hand me down ball that she loves to watch. She also has a baby cell phone that lights up and plays music. She loves to watch the lights and listen to the music. We also got her a little mini play table that she loves because she can pull up on it. 

 3) Hats - I've started a new hashtag #kayleeinahat because she just LOVES when we put hats on her. She is too adorable in them too. 

4) Mesh crib liner - I broke down and bought the mesh BREATHABLE liner for her crib. This serves me no other purpose but to keep her from throwing her paci out of the crib at night. And that makes it totally worth it. Also, as a secondary perk, keeps her arms and legs in the crib and has a tiny bit of cushion for those times she crams her head against the top of the crib and wakes up with red marks on her head... 

::Stats:: 

 16 lbs :: 11th % 

No height... she won't sit still long enough!!

 ::Milestones:: 

{Crawling} 

She is totally capable of crawling but she just chooses not to. She REALLY wants to walk but we have awhile for that. Instead of crawling she puts her feet down and tries to stand up and when she realizes she can't do that she just sits down. She has crawled and she can do it, she just usually prefers not to! HAHA! Chad tells her she is lazy. Just in the past couple days she has really started to pick up crawling. 

{Feeding herself} 

She loves to eat! And she is a pro at feeding herself puffs and pieces of bread. She can feed herself other things too but mostly they stick her her fingers and she can't get them in her mouth. She ends up wearing more of it than eating it! 

{Assisted steps} 

If she is standing and we hold her hands she can take mini steps while holding on to us. Also, I've seen her on the monitor cruise around her crib holding on to the railing and she will take as tep of two while holding onto furniture or us. Although she can crawl, she doesn't do it all that often, I really wouldn't be surprised if she just skips right to walking. 

 ::Sleeping:: 

{Night} 

She hit a bit of a sleep regression along with her growth spurt, which can be typical. She started getting up 3-4 times a night again. She is back down to twice a night now. I also think all the traveling and hotel stays this month threw her off. Other obstacles are separation anxiety and she wakes up in the night wanting to practice her new skills, particularly standing up in her crib! 

{Naps}

She is napping twice a day now. Her morning nap is usually around 9am and lasts anywhere from 1-2.5 hours. Her afternoon nap depends on how her morning nap went. She usually balances them out, if her morning nap was short her afternoon nap will be long and vice versa. She sleeps anywhere from 3-4.5 hours total during the day. Occasionally if she ends her afternoon nap super early she will take a cat nap at night but that is rare and usually only happens if she are in the car! 

::Eating:: 

Still breastfed. New foods this month included: bread & pizza sauce. I've hit a bit of a baby food rut! Trying to think of some new foods she can try. She eats pieces of some foods like green beans and bananas. She loves to try whatever we are having for dinner that night. 

 ::Misc:: 

{First travel} 

She went on her first and second road trips this month, to Nashville. She did absolutely amazing both times! Slept most of the drives to and from and was a peach during the trip even with the time change =) 

{Flower Girl}

 Kaylee was the flower girl in my aunt's wedding a couple of weeks ago. She was adorable! She got a bit fussy in the wagon but as soon as we started down the aisle she jsut looked around at all the people staring at her.

Kaylee, you are our sweet, fun, energetic & beautiful little 8 month old and we love you more than anything in the world!