Ashlyn is now 8 months old! Time has flown by.
She eats two big meals a day (level 3 baby food at lunch) and usually will just eat whatever we’re eating for dinner with the exception of meat or something to hard for her to break up. Some of the regular food she’s had that we’ve just cut up into tiny pieces are steamed broccoli, peas, green beans, rice, bread, spaghetti with tomato sauce, oatmeal, bananas, and watermelon. There hasn’t been any food that she hasn’t liked so far. She also usually eats a couple of snacks during the day, like the Gerber puffs, half a banana, or a level 2 jar of baby food. She drinks from a sippy cup (only apple juice or water) at dinner time and sometimes throughout the day.
She had a little cold that just kept lingering a couple of weeks ago so we took her to the pediatrician on a Sunday. She ended up just having a cold…nothing more, but I was a little shocked that she weighed 19.6 pounds! She has still has her little leg rolls!
Ashlyn also stands alone quite a bit now, really in the last few days. She would stand by herself for a couple of seconds a few times a day but now, she tries to do it quiet often. The babysitter said that she was constantly trying to catch her because she would stand by herself and try to walk, but she obviously can’t do that yet so she would just fall. She’s a little dare-devil so it’s a little scary for mommy and daddy but we accept that she’s going to have to get hurt sometimes and learn from it.
Two new “games” that she does very often are pick-a-boo and what we call “indian”. I know this probably isn’t PC…but who cares. Indian is when you open your mouth, pat your hand over your mouth and make a noise. Like an Indian war cry thing…don’t really know how else to explain it. But she really likes doing that herself and for us to do it for her (we put our hand over her mouth and she makes the noise). It’s pretty funny. She LOVES pick-a-boo. After her bath, we wrap her in a towel. She’ll put the towel over her face and we’ll say, “Where’d Ashlyn go?!” then she’ll take the towel off her head and we’ll say, “There she is!!” This will go on and on for a several minutes. She’s thinks it’s so funny. When I was getting ready for work on Friday, I put her in bed with Daddy since he was just waking up and she took the covers and put them on her head and daddy played the game with her for a few minutes. It’s really cute. Here are a few pictures of her this weekend.
