Baby's latest developments:

1. She evidently thinks limes, lemons, and dill pickles are super tasty. Weird.

2. She can triumphantly pull herself up to a standing position.

3. Her first tooth is verrrryyy slllooowly millimetering itself up from gum level.

4. She's getting more fine muscle control, including poking everything for examination with her index finger.

5. She's developed a new game in her doorway jumper - put something on the floor, and she'll kick it just out of reach and then swing and stick out her foot to get it back. Repeat.

6. She's more regularly only waking once at night again, which is great for me and sleep!

7. Just in the last few days she has started actually stepping (i.e. trying to walk, rather than jumping or stumbling), hilariously by lifting up her left foot very high in the air and sticking it out straight before bringing it down again.

5 years together, and 8 month old baby!

Brandon and I have been together 5 years tomorrow, and baby girl's 8 months old today! What a month!

We still haven't picked up our Christmas tree, but we're planning to do it tomorrow when we have use of Brandon's mom's larger vehicle. Ah, logistics.

The baby's vocabulary has expanded from "ba ba ba" to "na na" and "ma ma" with an occasional "la" and an even more rare "daddy." Who cares if it's accidental? She's also crawling, though haltingly - I'm sure she's preparing to wreak havoc on everything in sight!

Time for me to go clean up the kitchen...we made waffles today and made a big mess in the process. (New waffle iron - haven't gotten the recipe and amount quite figured out yet.)

Almost 8 months old!

It's hard to believe that baby girl is going to be 8 months old next week. This past month has flown by!

She's more interested in eating her solid food now, though the whole solid pooping thing was a bit upsetting at first...ah, the joys of babyhood! We're looking forward to getting our Christmas tree this weekend (I don't know that I've ever gotten one this early before) and having family over for the holidays. What fun!

Baby girl has also started babbling "ba-ba-ba-ba" in the past couple of weeks, which is super cute. I wonder what's next?