8 MONTHS OLD!

I can't believe my sweet baby is 8 months old already! My how time flies! She brings so much joy to our house with her smiles and giggles..... Our family just wouldn't be complete without her.

She went through a stretch of about 3.5 weeks of waking up in the middle of night. But she has now gone three nights in a row without doing that, so hopefully that phase is over with. She is really working on her pincer grasp lately, and we have successfully had 4 days now of naps with one arm unswaddled. Next week, we'll try both arms. She now eats peas, green beans, sweet potatoes, squash, carrots, pumpkin, prunes, apples, bananas, and pears. So far, no reactions to anything we've given her....thank goodness. The other day I tried giving her the "textures" baby food for 8 months old and up. It was peas that was a bit thicker and with very tiny pieces of carrot in it. Well, she kept gagging on the carrots, and finally gagged so hard she threw up a lot of her dinner. Okay. Guess she is still not quite ready for that yet. Now that she is eating more solids and sitting up a lot more, her reflux is SOOOOO much better. In fact, she hardly ever spits up any more! We have an appointment with her GI specialist tomorrow, and I'm thinking of talking to her about slowly trying to back off the Prevacid??? Also, she is getting too big for her baby carseat carrier, so we are going to switch her up to her other carseat this weekend. She does so much better in the car now, and we can take her out to eat and even to the store now and she does okay now that she can sit up in a stroller or cart, sit in a highchair, and be a part of the world. It makes it so nice. I love this age. We're past the hard newborn stage, and not yet to the "getting into everything" stage. I am going to enjoy every day of this stage as much as possible!