8 Months Old

Abigail was 8 months old this week.  Tuesday to be exact.  She has been sick all week so she has a red nose in her pictures...I even got one of her coughing.  We are blessed that this is only the second time she has been sick but it makes me so sad to hear her cough and struggle to breathe.  Even through all the snot she has still been pretty happy and has slept good.  

Here are the new things she is doing at 8 months:

She has started saying a lot of new sounds.  She has even said "ma ma" a couple of times.  I can't wait for her to start saying that one consistently.

She reaches to be picked up or when she wants someone else to hold her.

She is eating finger food very well.

Her hair is finally growing in some.

Abigail still doesn't move around a lot but she has started schooching (is that really a word?) around while sitting.  And, just this morning while playing in the crib she got from her stomach to sitting up.  We were so excited!

Another big one is she is sleeping through the night!!!  This is huge!  It took a week of being strong and letting her cry a little but it was worth it because now all of us, especially her, get all the sleep we need.  Many people will not agree with us using the "cry it out" method but we have tried everything else without getting results.  We both believe that one week of crying some at night is not going to have long term effects on her emotionally or socially.  And, in the end, she is much happier getting the sleep she needs!  We knew she wasn't hungry she had just developed a schedule of waking in the middle of the night.  Once we got her off that schedule we haven't had to go up to her since.  She will make some noise every night but its only for a minute.  When she wakes in the morning she is happy and plays in the crib until I can go up and get her. 

Here are our monthly pictures.  She is wearing pj's that her Grammy and Paw Paw gave her that say "Born to be Wild".  So cute!

Coughing...poor baby.

Daddy is soooo funny!

Red Nose