Emma is 8 months on the 8th

Emma is 8 months old today. I always say this, but I can't believe how fast that has gone!

I love her chunky legs. And that smile!!!

Emma loves to babble and does happy screams. She loves to say 'baba' and she can also say 'mama' :) Not that she knows what it means, but it makes me happy!

This adorable girl loves to eat. She has done well with all the baby food we have given her:
green beans, squash, carrots, peas, banana, applesauce, strawberry banana, pear.
She really likes to eat whatever we eat: bread, eggs, pancakes, banana.
Carly loves to snack on Emma's snacks: cheerios, yogurt bites, puffs, veggie straws. 

Emma can drink from our water bottles! She loves sucking from the big straw. She does a really good job. She still chokes sometimes because she gets too much water in her mouth and doesn't swallow, but she is getting better.

Our crawling baby. She just started officially crawling last week! Look how happy she is!

Yeah no big deal, just standing here all by myself??!
 Emma can now pull herself up to stand. She loves doing this.

No filter on this picture. Her eyes are really this blue! And if you look close enough, you can see her two teeth on the bottom poking through! Yikes!

Emma has been teething this past weekend. Poor girl. She has a runny nose, she is very tired, nursing more, wakes up and has a 'hurt cry' likes she's in pain, gnaws on her thumb. 

Don't worry that scratch on her face is from my fingernail :( bad mommy moment. I went to swipe away something she was putting in her mouth, and scratched her face :( 

Her hair is blonde! and we love it. 

Emma loves: Carly, playing with toys, getting tickled (we have so many videos of her squealing because she is being tickled), being outside, eating grass and leaves, paper. Emma loves real people things like remotes, pens, shoes, cords. She loves when daddy comes home from work. 

Emma doesn't enjoy: getting dressed, getting her diaper changed (she is so wiggly!), being put down after being held for a while.

Emma is precious. Just so precious.

Sleep. What's that?! Actually it's really not that bad. She's just not a great napper and she doesn't sleep through the night. But oh well. She's only little once and I get to spend lots of time with my baby. We even try and wear her out during the day by going to parks and walks and shopping.

The first picture I took today, this is the face she made at me. It looks like 'really mom?! We do this every month'.