8 months

Claire -

• How are you 8 months old already?!?
• You want to stand all the time, and practice all day long at daycare. 
• You love to bounce and when music comes on you will rock and bounce, and sometimes singe along with it (although your singing mostly just sounds live "Ahhhhhh Arghhhh ahhhhhhh"
• Your favorite word is still Dada 
• When I respond to you and say: Claire say "Mama", you just smile and say "Dada Dada"
• Food is one of your favorite things, especially anything solid in chunks... pureed food is so boring. Cut up bananas, sweet potato, turkey, and cheese is the best. And you are trying more foods that we eat for dinner as well, this week we had red curry chicken and you went crazy for it. 
• I realized now that you are truly on the move, I need to start saying "no" to you when you are getting into something you shouldn't (we have child proofed things to some extent, but even when we have child proofed electrical outlets it still probably isn't a good idea for you to think you can lick them). So now when you head towards an outlet I say "No" (without smiling or laughing I swear), and you just crack up laughing! Hmmmm.... 
• It is getting harder and harder to get you to sit still for your monthly pictures! 

All dressed up for Halloween! The cutest ladybug ever...