8 Months

8 Months with Little Girl! She truly lights up our little world and she is everyone's favorite.

Here's what McCall is up to at 8 months:

• She is a cruising machine. She loves her new found love of scooting around. It's pretty much a scooting army crawl and she is fast! She now explores the entire house and it has made me have to keep my floors extra clean since she finds the smallest crumb or garbage.
• She is much more smiley and lights up when anyone walks in the room. She is starting to get a little leery of strangers but still mostly goes to anyone that will hold her.
• She loves to eat food and try anything that you will give her. She can eat a jar of baby food in one sitting and she also loves yogurt and ice cream. She has also tried some "big people" food like mashed up avocado and beans and mashed potatoes. You can tell when she really likes something since she whines between each bite because you aren't feeding her fast enough.
• She is still great at nursing and that is still her main source of food. 
• She is starting to fight going to sleep a little more and the best way to get her to sleep is by nursing her. She arches her body when she is really fighting it especially for naps if she isn't quite ready.
• She wakes up usually 2 times at night to nurse but goes right back to sleep. She usually goes to sleep between 7 and 8 and is awake around 8 with a feeding at 11 and then at 4. Some nights I get lucky and she will only do one feeding. 
• She doesn't like to be on her back for very long and as soon as you put her down she rolls right over and loves to be able to explore the world and look around being on her belly. This has made diaper changes challenging and an adventure with one wiggly little girl. And the funny thing is if you keep holding her down she shakes her head like saying no and it is so cute.
• She loves blowing raspberries!
• She can sit on her own but is not good at sitting for very long since she just wants to get down and scoot around. She hasn't figured out how to transition from sitting to the ground and just falls over so we do a lot of sitting practice with me catching her over and over and sitting her back up.
• She loves to be thrown up in the air by Nate and this is when she laughs the most.
• She still loves to be held but is not cuddly. She wants you to walk around with her so she can see the world.
• She loves to grab anything is sight and most of the time whatever she grabs goes right in the mouth. She did have a scary choking incident but luckily Nate was able to pound on her back and the object came out. 
• She is pretty good at whining when she wants to be picked up and will scoot to her feet and whine until she gets picked up.
• She still loves the water and kicks her legs like crazy in the bath. She got her first bath in Nona and Pop's kitchen sink this week and kept the tradition alive. 

Tradition of bathing in the kitchen sink at Nona and Pop's house- I'm pretty sure all of the grandkids have done this though I couldn't quite find a picture of all of them. Starting at the top left going right (Cade, Mikey, Sam, Baylor, Lily, Brett, Corgan, Peyton, Carly, Paige, Oneil, and Eliza with McCall in the middle)

McCall loved her bath! She had quite the audience and wanted to suck and chew on whatever she could get her hands on. She splashed and got everyone around her wet and kept sinking lower and lower into the sink. It was a fun family affair!

Towards the end she would rest her foot on the sink and it was the cutest thing!

Just straight up chillin'!

Got a picture of her sitting up and she was so serious for the camera. We took SO many photos just trying to get her to smile.

The head band stage is pretty much over since this is what happens as soon as you put one on. :)

I got a few gummy smiles in the morning and that sweet face just melts me and I just love, love her hair that just stands straight up all the time.

She is a scooting pro but does get up on her knees like she is going to crawl but before moving goes back down and she also does baby planks all the time too.

I could kiss that face all day and I just love my little miracle baby so much!

She decided to take a "nap" at 7 instead of going to bed and was awake for a couple hours and wanted to party to celebrate her 8 months of being in our lives and didn't go to bed until 11 but she was super happy and I got a few more smiley pajama pictures before going to bed. The crooked smile just cracks me up and is so cute! 

She is truly growing up SO fast but I'm loving every minute of it even if on a daily basis I wish that time would slow down (even though I am excited for warmer weather and all the fun we are going to have outside and at the beach!)