8 Months Old

My baby girl is now two-thirds of the way through her first year. We’re having so much fun being her parents.

James and Jessica, 5/31/10

What Jessica is Up To

My sister let us borrow some foam squares to put on the floor. It is working way better than the blanket we were using. However, Jessica knows how to take it apart and likes to chew on it. I’m not sure  that it is a good long term plan. Maybe we’ll eventually decide on a rug we both like.

Tearing Up the Floor, 6/9/10

She loves to play. Our living floor is taken over by baby toys, but that is okay. We recently set out her Talking Garden Activity Table she got for Christmas. It is technically aged for children 12 months up, but you don’t have to use the legs. Jessica loves to push the buttons. She turns it from English to Spanish, on and off. She attempts to crawl over it. It has gotten her up on her knees quite a bit.

Pressing Buttons, 6/8/10

Up on her Knees, 6/14/10

She army crawls all over the place and is getting very fast. She hasn’t starting crawling on hands and knees yet, but it’s just as matter of time, since she has started getting up on her knees a lot more.

Jessica now gets baths in our bath tub. Once she started sitting up really well without slipping too much, we decided she was ready. Now she has lots more room to splash around.

In the Bath, 6/10/10

Jennifer and Jessica, 6/10/10

She does really well in the car, although she doesn’t spend much time in the car. She definitely knows how to keep herself occupied. I wish I was that flexible.

On the Way to Visit Aunt Sarah, 6/4/10

Eating

Jessica now has one tooth and a second one is coming in to the left of the first. We’ve given her puffs and she will hold the puff up to her mouth and gnaw on it with her little tooth. This video shows her puff eating in action. Plus, you can see her first tooth really well.

Homemade foods she’s tried: sweet potatoes, butternut squash, bananas, acorn squash, green beans, sweet peas, peaches, applesauce, eggplant with olive oil. Bananas are her favorite food. She’ll eat them up like there’s no tomorrow. Lima beans or lentils will be the next new food we try.

Getting a Pea Facial, 6/2/10

Purchased baby food she’s tried: rice cereal, oatmeal, Yoplait Greek yogurt, Happy Baby Organic Green Puffs (has whole grains and spinach in it) and Stonyfield YoBaby flavored yogurt. She really digs the yogurts and puffs. I want to try the sweet potato puffs Julia makes or the broccoli bites Sarah makes, but I’m not quite ready for Jessica to have a food with egg in it yet. Soon, though.