This Kid {8 Months Old Today}

This kid we have named Ameliya just keeps us chuckling and on our toes.  She's so dear.

Lately she loudly announces when she's noticed that a mealtime is coming close.  Even if I've just nursed her she wants to be at the table with some FOOD.  In my head I imagine her as a tiny tyrant pounding her fork and spoon, demanding to be fed.  She doesn't, but the imagery cracks me up.

This morning for breakfast I made the big kids spirulina blueberry smoothies.  As I was blending I realized Mia had everything I'd thrown in the smoothie except the spirulina so I decided to let her have some, too.

Let me tell you - baby LOVES smoothie.

I won't tell you how much she drank.  Ha. 

Mike is certain he heard he say "daddy" today.  We are anxiously waiting for her to speak...she often looks at us like she can say words and perhaps practices them when we aren't around, but as of yet she's not sharing.  I don't doubt that she said daddy to him, but he said it was so fast it's hard to be certain.

Tonight I gave her an apple wedge to relieve her teeth pain on while I got supper on the table.  Imagine my surprise when I looked over and she was eating it, peel and all.  Apparently her teeth have gotten sharp enough to just bite right through the wedge!?  8 months old today and she thinks she's all kinds of big stuff!

(fuzzy pics - too much zoom on the phone camera!)

Ameliya, at 8 months you are saucy, hilarious, and sweet.  You dance - sometimes to music and sometimes to the music in your head.  You love brother and sister.  You can pull up to stand if we are laying on the floor.  You love FOOD.  You still nurse every 3-4 hours but are quick about it because there is too much of life to see.  You crawl like an inchworm but are fast when you want to be.  You weigh 21.6 pounds and your thighs and calves are out of this world.  Your wardrobe consists of leggings, not pants, because pants don't pull up over your thighs.  You battled chicken pox like a beast and I'm proud of you.  We love everything about you, big girl.