Lily James English is 8 Months Old!

Lily turned 8 months old on April 7th! Here's what she's been up to:

- She is pulling up on everything! She can also pull up and walk sideways along the couch, and I've even caught her letting go a few times and balancing a couple seconds before falling on her butt. Luckily, she's learned to balance well enough that she can sit down and not fall down.

- She loves to feed herself! The meal time fits have greatly decreased since I began cutting up small pieces of banana, mango or potatoes for her to eat while I sneak in the pureed stuff. I still like to give her some pureed mixes just to get more variety in her diet. Otherwise, she would eat bananas all day everyday if we let her!

- She's been battling her first cold this month, and it's been bothering her forever! I thought she was getting better until yesterday and we were back to square one with no sleeping, runny nose and a cough that wakes her up when she does fall asleep.

- She has two teeth now! Her bottom two front teeth are in and are too cute.

- She doesn't really have any favorite toys yet. Her favorite things to do are to crawl all over the apartment and explore, climb all over mom and dad, or practice pulling up on anything and everything. Sometimes in the late afternoon she will tolerate a walk in the stroller.

- She laughs when we throw her toys in the air, say "ROOOAAAR," or tickle her under her arms or on the bottom of her feet.

- She weighs somewhere between 20-21 lbs (75th-90th %tile), and is about 28" long (75th %tile).

- She wears mostly 9 month clothes, but 12 month pajamas (and is actually not going to last much longer in 12 month pjs)

- She really is pretty quiet, and is not saying anything close to mama or dada, but she just started saying baba. I think she's just too distracted with all her exploring to bother with talking!

- She still takes 2-3 naps a day. The 3-nap days are getting more infrequent.

Happy 8 months Lily Bug!!