8 Months Old

Charlotte is 8 months old! The biggest news over this past month is that she has a tooth. It's one of her bottom ones and it popped up shortly after she turned 7 months. We didn't even notice it until one morning William said, "Charlotte bit me and it hurt because she has teeth." We kind of ignored him and then later on that night I saw it for myself! We were in Dothan this past weekend so I'm using these pics as her official 8 month pictures. She really is the happiest baby but decided to get serious for these pics.

 Chewing on Daddy Steve's baby rattle. 

Other big, exciting news is I am officially DONE with pumping. Yahoo!!! I quit a couple of days ago and should have enough frozen milk for Charlotte to have for several more months. I have nothing against giving her formula but I've been lucky to have an abundance of milk this go around...haha. She eats one vegetable a day. I probably need to start adding more food but I haven't yet. Her favorites are butternut squash and sweet potatoes. She still drinks a 6 oz. bottle every 3 hours or so.

She started waking up again at night over the past month...NOT FUN. She usually goes down around 6:30 and has been waking up at 10pm and then again at 2am and up for the day around 6am. We may be doing CIO again soon. Her naps are still not consistent but she averages about 3 hrs. of sleep during the day.

She's finally sitting up on her own! She grabs at everything, especially people's hair and loves to pass things from one hand to the other. She recently started waving bye bye and clapping which is pretty much precious! I can tell she's beginning to show the first signs of separation anxiety. She will sometimes bury her head in my chest if she gets overwhelmed or scared. I think she's going to be a little more reserved and shy than William but we shall see. 

She also says "Dada" and "Bubba" (more like "baba" but William thinks she is referring to him). She also loves to squeal and she does this hilarious growling noise. 

Charlotte is such a happy girl and brings so much joy to our family with her pure sweetness!! Just for fun, I looked back at William's 8 month post on the blog. By 8 months he had 4 teeth, was crawling, pulling up on everything, and eating 3 meals/day. Wowzers. It is true...all babies are different! We love you sweet Char!