8 Months Old

Weight: 19lbs

At 8 months old, Sophia's hit many milestones/experienced many new things.  She's mastered "army" crawling and can crawl over and under most obstacles to get to where she wants to get she wants.  When she comes to a stop, she gets into the real crawling position, but doesn't seem quite ready to crawl on her hands and knees yet.  Maybe she feels army crawling is sufficient enough for her purposes?!  All I know is that she's fast.  If I don't dress her quickly enough after bath time, she likes to make a quick get away!

 

There are two places where she will sit still.  One place is on the grass.  It will probably take her some time to get use to the prickly feeling of the grass on her soft skin.  The second place is in the stroller.  She's almost to the point of outgrowing her carseat carrier so we decided to buy a double stroller.  Normally, we would have her sit in the front part of the stroller (where Matthew is sitting in the picture below), but since we had the stroller inside the house right after we assembled it, we just put her in the back to take a picture.  However, she seemed just as happy sitting in the back as she was sitting in the front.  It's most likely because she gets a better view of the world when she gets to sit up in the stroller!

At 8 months, Sophia has 4 teeth.  Poor girl had to experience the pain of the top teeth coming out at the same time that she contracted hand, foot and mouth disease.  She ran a fever for a few days and then her body broke out into rashes.  I think she also had one or two sores in her mouth, one of which was right by the top tooth that is popping out. 

At 8 months, she also got to feel sand between her toes, as well as the wind blowing through her hair - well the few hairs that she has. =)  I think she liked both since she didn't cry in either instance.  She was actually smiling at some point during her swing ride, but we just didn't capture a picture of it.  She also shakes her head from side to side when we say "no, no, no, no", will use her right hand to bang on whatever is in front of her when we say "dup, dup, dup" (hit in chinese), and sometimes we'll get an arm wave when we say "hi".  Can't wait to see this little sponge soak up everything she sees/hears in the next couple of months!