As I've done for the last 7 months, bear with me while I do an update of what Cate's been doing over the past month.
We'll start with the big stuff - TEETH! At 8 months old she finally has some! She got one while Jason was in Astoria (of course), and then the second one broke through while we were at Grandpa Joe's house. So now there are two little teeth on the bottom and we're just waiting patiently for more to come through. Given the fact that Michaela had bitten me a couple of times while nursing at this point with sharp top teeth, it's probably good that Cate only has bottom teeth (they get covered by her tongue when she nurses).
I'm wondering if a new interest in food is coming with the teeth, too. It could just be that I've gotten better about having her try food, but she seems to not hate it as much anymore. She even gnawed on an apple for quite a while one afternoon in NY. It was funny to see her figure out that, if she turned it meat-side down (instead of skin), she could scrape bits off with her tiny teeth. She's also tried some purees - carrots, pears, mango - steamed sweet potato chunks that she seemed to enjoy, and avocado. Oh, and she finally ate some Cheerios and those baby puff things the other day, actually purposely putting them in her mouth and not spitting them out!
On the activity front, she now very easily rolls in both directions and can cover some ground rolling around on the floor. It's funny to watch her get the idea in her head to chase after something and then roll to get it. She gets stuck against furniture, though, and then we get a frustrated cry. There's still no sign of crawling and, as I mentioned, I'm doing more with getting her to stand, supporting herself, against furniture. She's figured out how to do a lot of things just sitting in one place and scooching around a little, so she doesn't seem to need to move much more than that!
Sleep is about the same as its been for months. Except when we do silly things like visiting three different places in a two week period and changing time zones and dealing with daylight savings time. Then sleep sucks. Now that we're home, though, we seem to be getting back into our routine. She gets up around 8 in the morning, is ready for a nap around 10, and again around 2 (coincidentally at the same time Michaela is sleeping!!). Then she takes a mini nap right after dinner (I'm wondering when that one will go away) and goes to sleep around 9. We don't actually put her in her bed until we go to bed since I always feed her one last time before I go to sleep, and that usually happens sometime between 10 and 11. She wakes usually once in the middle of the night (actually, early morning) to nurse, and then we're all back to sleep for a while. It's actually a pretty nice routine, but I'd like her to get used to giving us 9 hours of sleep in a row on a normal basis like she did one night when we were in CT. That was especially nice because I also got to sleep for 9 hours for the first time in... uh... probably something like 10 or 11 months. It was bliss and I felt like a new person when I woke up. At some point in time I will start moving her nap from the swing to the pack n play in our room (where she sleeps at night). Or, even better, to her crib in her room at least for the morning one when Michaela's not also in there napping. One day she'll use those pretty Pottery Barn sheets. One day.
Personality-wise, she's really starting to show us more of who she is. She gets SO excited to see Daddy when he gets home from work. She gets even more mad if he has the nerve to say hello to her when he walks in and then doesn't actually come over to see her. She's also started to throw fits when we take something away from her that she likes (like our phones, the TV remote, or anything else she's not supposed to have but somehow manages to get her hands on). Every once in a while we DO let her play with our phones because she LOVES to see herself in the camera. She's also started to do this hilarious shaking thing when she gets excited about something. She just sort of trembles with her fists clenched. The first time she did it, it actually scared me. Now I think it's hilarious! And, finally, Cate seriously thinks that the sun rises and sets by Michaela. She laughs at everything Michaela does and LOVES when Michaela plays with her at all. I get the feeling we're going to have our hands full with this one once she IS mobile! Oh, and she likes her toes. A lot.
I think that's it for the 8 month update. Hopefully by next month I'll be able to report that Cate is sleeping through the night, eating all kinds of food, and at least making an attempt to crawl! We'll see how it goes!
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