We can’t believe that our lit­tle girl will be 8 months old in less that two weeks. She is grow­ing in height, weight and clev­er­ness. It’s dif­fi­cult to blog and pho­to­graph all of the new things she can do because many of them are sub­tle skills that build every day. It’s reward­ing to watch her make con­nec­tions and get excited about them. Here are a few of her mile­stones these last two weeks:

• As you can see by the pic­ture on the front page, she has learned how to drink from a sippy cup. It actu­ally took one try and she fig­ured it out. Although, instead of stop­ping when she was full, she kept on drink­ing and spit­ting the water out of her mouth into her lap.
• She loves to feed her­self white bread. I just break off sev­eral pieces and she chases them around her tray until she gets one to stick to her fin­gers and up into the mouth it goes.
• She took her first few ten­ta­tive steps while hold­ing on to the cof­fee table edge. Although she has yet to fig­ure out that her feet need to move before her hands do.
• Crawling is just a few weeks away. The instant you put her on the floor she wig­gles, ungu­lates, squirms and pulls her­self across the floor to her favorite toy. This doesn’t last for long, but she is def­i­nitely excited to be moving.
• Her favorite toys by the way are the three books that we pur­chased. She loves, “Are You My Mother?” (writ­ten by the guy who did, “Sam and the Firefly”), “Put Me in the Zoo” and Dr. Seuss’, “Mr. Brown Can Moo Can You?” The best part of these books is the chance to make sound effects which make her laugh and smile.

These are pretty much so far. We love to watch her grow and fig­ure out her world one day at a time.