Avery: 8 Months Old...

Sweet Avery girl is 8 months old and growing up more by the day.  She is getting so funny with her facial expressions, noises and "talking".  She loves to hear her own voice as she happily screams, followed by a big smile as if she knows how funny she is.

Avery is still a great eater.  She is eating three meals a day of solid food and still nursing (or getting an occasional bottle when I am gone) 4 - 5 times a day.  We've introduced the sippy cup, but she really has no interest in it other than playing with it.  We've also tried puffs a few different times and she's not overly interested yet.  She has made vast improvements with spitting up.  She'll spit up a small amount a few times a day, but it is SO much better than it used to be.

Sleep wise, Avery is doing much better.  She is still going down between 6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. and usually wakes anytime between 4:30 - 6:00 a.m. to eat.  Every day we put her paci back in to try to get her to go back to sleep without eating, but it never really works.  I always end up feeding her and she is typically fed and back down within 10 - 15 minutes.  We have a feeling this is the "norm" and will be this way until I am no longer nursing.  Aves is still taking 2 naps a day...morning around 9 am and afternoon around 1ish.  Every once in a while, she will squeeze in a catnap in late afternoon/early evening before dinner.

Size wise, Avery is about the same.  Wearing size 2 diapers during the day and size 3 at night.  She is in size 6 - 12 month and 9 month clothes, along with 9 month sleepers.

Aves is not on the move just yet, but she is trying awful hard.  She pivots all around with her hands when she is on her tummy.  She is scooting backyards by pushing with her hands.  When sitting up, she often looks like she is going to launch forward into a crawl.

Avery is getting into about anything we'll let her have.  She grabs for anything in her reach and often tries to dive off of our laps for things she can't reach.  Everything seems to make it's way to her mouth.  Kensley is getting more protective of her toys as Avery tries to grab for whatever Kens is playing with or eating.

Avery still loves bath time, reading/grabbing books, sitting and playing with her toys in her toy basket and most of all she loves attention...especially from her sister.  Avery flaps her arms, bounces up and down and makes little humming noises whenever she is excited.  It's pretty cute.  She's still our smiley, little girl .  And at this point, she will smile and go to about anyone that will hold her or give her attention.  We haven't seen too much stranger anxiety in her yet as we did with Kens at this age.

Avery also loves to be held.  She is our little snuggler.  One of my favorite times of the day with her is right before she goes to bed.  I feed her in her room and then put her on my shoulder to burp her.  She is usually so exhausted and just burries her little face in my neck as I rock and burp her.

And here is our monthly photo shoot.  Lots of pictures as I couldn't narrow it down.  This was by far the most difficult shoot as Avery was squirmy and kept rolling over in her chair.

And she's done!

Our little peanut is growing up so fast and we can't believe that we will have two on the move before long!  Happy 8 month birthday, Avery!