8 Months!

Our precious girl is eight months old and I just want her to stop growing!!

Arden has been a little crankier than normal in the past couple of weeks. I am not sure if she’s cutting another tooth, or if her ears are still bothering her. We got back to the ENT next week, and I fear they are going to tell us she needs tubes. But at this point if they make her feel better, I’m ok with it.

She’s finally made it to 6-12 or 9 month size clothes! She can still wear some 3-6 months in dresses. She’s in a size 3 diaper still. And eats baby food and oatmeal at least twice a day, sometimes more if she seems hungry. She is taking less and less bottles, which worries me, but I guess she knows when she’s full! She has a 6 oz bottle about 3 times a day and a couple of 3-4 oz, depending on her mood! She really likes table food, and has tried bread, green beans, carrots and mashed potatoes. I am thinking of getting a food mill so I can just mash up whatever we are eating to feed her- but then again it would be hard to mush up tacos and chicken nuggets and I’m not ready to feed her hot dogs, I guess we really don’t have that great of a diet these days . . .on second thought maybe I’ll just stick with the jarred baby food, after all!

She’s really started babbling different sounds together. And just this week she’s started waving bye-bye occasionally. I can’t get over how she already tries to imitate Stratton and the things he does. She is very close to crawling and pulling up. She rarely sits still and likes to be on the move! I love this age, they just learn and grow so much- but I hate it too! She’s not going to be a sweet snuggly baby for much longer.