Gabriella is 8 Months!

This means that in 4 months, my baby will be a year old, how is that possible?  Seriously, where did time go and why can't babies stay little for at least 5 years or so, ha! Well Gabriella is quite a smart little lady with such a cheeful personality.  She has hit all her milestones right on time and continues to amaze me every day. A day after she turned 8 months she started crawling and there was no stopping her. This past Saturday she crawled perfectly. Her motivation of course was her daddy at the end of the hallway, she's such a daddy's girl. She continues to say "dada" along with other syllables, she's pulling up, and continunes to sleep through the night. Her new "thing" is to stand up in her crib and scream to get our attention. This of course is when she is ready to wake up in the morning or wakes up from her naps. In food news, her appetite is getting bigger. Although she has liked all the food that we have introduced, she ate like a little bird believe it or not. Her new favorite thing to eat are tiny blueberry panckes made  by daddy with blueberry or apple puree that I make. Other new foodst she has been introduced to are:

Ceam cheese
Mozerella string cheese
Pancakes
Waffles (Earth's Best organic mini)
Bagels
Corn
Acorn Squash
Kiwi
Mango
Papaya
Watermelon
Cilantro white rice
White potatoes
Spaghetti

Along with these

Peas ***
Carrots **
Sweet Potato
Green Beans*
Butternut Squash***
Bananas***
Apples*
Pears*
Peaches**
Avocado**
Yogurt***
Toast**
Chicken noodle soup***
Tiny bits of chicken breast**



I am going to make her first chicken and rice soup this weekend and hope to introduce her to more chunkier foods. I bought chicken breast, organic chicken broth, whole grain brown rice, carrots, peas, squash, celery, and potatoes. I am going to cut everything in teeny-tiny pieces and hope she enjoys it, pictures to come!

Here are some other things Gabriella has been up lately:
Months 7 & 8

Parents.com


Senses: A lovey rules just about now -- the familiar feel and smell of a treasured blankie or teddy is reassuring. Gabiella is not very fond of being covered with a blankie, she kicks it off. She soothes herself with my hair while I'm putting her to sleep.


Body: Your baby gets up on his hands and knees, rocks back and forth, and may even crawl. Gabriella is crawling perfectly! She started crawling at Nana's houseat 8 months, 1 day.


Brain: Your infant has a crude understanding of cause and effect -- for instance, if you let go of something, it will fall. Gabriella has definitely learned about the cause and effect due to gravity, ugh! She drops her toys a million times and expects us to quickly pick them up for her.


Communication Skills: He responds to his name and probably looks up when you say "No!" Time to start setting limits, Boss. Your baby also whines when you take away a toy or (more likely) a forbidden object. Gabriella has known her name for a while now. Even when we're on the phone and say her name she looks up thinking we're talking to her. She gets very upset when you take any forbidden object away from her such as the remote, cell phone, or bottle( when she's spilling milk).


Aww Factor: She's crawling

Fave Toy: Pots, pans, cell phones, remotes - she enjoys the simple things in life and entertains herself with these objects.