Soccer Dad

Eight months

Yesterday morning at 1:15 AM she turned 35 weeks old.

The biggest difference from last month is what she eats. She eats baby food. And if you give her the right flavors she opens her mouth willingly. If you try to feed her something like butternut squash, she keeps her mouth open and makes a face and swallows very gradually. Her favorite flavors are apple-mango-kiwi, peach and apple-blueberry. The first two of those are no longer kosher, so I've had to stock up on the old versions.

The other day we went to a concert. When she was up she was tapping her hand to the beat. Do babies have an innate sense of rhythm or does she have a special talent. (I don't think that we'll buy her a drum kit. Yet.)

She also has started occasionally doing what we call the "tushie dance." For some unknown reason when she's sitting she'll start wiggling. Needless to say it's very cute to watch.

She can pull herself up to a sitting position and she's showing signs of being ready to crawl, but hasn't put all the motions together. She'll babble and sometimes shriek. And she can express preferences. She'll lean to a person whom she prefers to hold her. And she will sometimes show that she recognizes someone she hasn't seen in a while by starting to babble.

Of course when we carry her around everyone remarks how cute she is. What more can a parent ask for?

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Posted by SoccerDad at May 8, 2007 5:23 AM