8 Months Old and Crawling

This little sweet pea is officially 8 months old and officially crawling. She has been attempting to crawl for about a month, just rocking back and forth on all fours trying to figure it out. She had perfected rolling over and scooting backwards as a means of transportation, and for awhile we were thinking that she might just stick to that. But she figured it out finally. She is still timid about it and only does it when it seems absolutely necessary. We thought once she started crawling she would be all over the place, but she is a very cautious crawler and I'm not sure she's convinced it's worth the effort.  Either that or she wants to avoid looking silly and is making sure she does it perfectly before she tries to show it off. 

 

Nap?  I don't need no stinking nap!

What?  Is there something on my face?



Trying to find the book she wants...

Very proud of herself for getting the remote

off of the table and turning the stereo on.

Her first bruise (right knee).  I was a little heartbroken

when I saw it.  Only big girls get bruises.  

The Cutest Li'l Red

The real reason the Huskers won last Saturday? 

This little one was all aglow with Husker spirit. 

Cutest little fan there every was.

 

 

Moving Up!

There are a couple of new things this week:

1.  Munchie has discovered her ability to use the highest, shrillest pitched scream possible.  It's not because she's mad or sad or needs attention.  It's just because she can.

2.  Iz also discovered the fun "ppppp" noise she can make when holds her lips together and blows air (and baby saliva) through them.  It has been the noise of choice for the last 36 hours.

3. She pulls herself up on her knees wherever she can! At the coffee table to steal the remote, on the arm of the couch to get a better view, at the side of her crib so she can plan her escape (yes, we're lowering the crib now).  Big, grown up girl!

Still on the move!  Her teachers at school remarked

this week on how she moves really fast considering

she only rolls and scoots.  But she makes it work!

What are you guys doing up here?

Always such a happy girl!

Wait, there's more than just ceiling in my room?!?

A new game.

Peek-a-boo!

 

  

Girls' Trip

Grammy, Auntie Em, Izzie and I went on a girls' trip last weekend.  We drove down to KC on Friday, spent all day shopping at Legends Outlet Mall on Saturday, and then drove home Sunday (after a final, quick hurrah at the mall).  We had a blast, and Miss Isabel was quite the happy traveler.  (These pictures are off my old camera, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to rotate the vertical ones.  I will work on it--sorry!)

Grammy bought Isabel her first purse.  She loved

carrying it around (and she had $3 in it from Grampa)

Izzie played with my Kindle in the car.  She never has

before, but I thought a 3 hour car ride might call

for some bending of the rules.  The fish made noise

when she hit the screen, which entertained her for a bit.

Grammy and I ran down to the car and found this when we

came back up to our room.  We did a double take before

we realized Auntie was playing a trick on us.

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She now gets up on her hands and knees, folks.

Crawling is just around the corner...

Needless to say, she thought we spent

a little too much time in Gap...

A long day of shopping and that girl still

has her purse.  Mommy was proud.

Dinner in a hotel is so fun!

"Auntie said I could..."

 

Turns out the slushie lid was entertaining for

far longer than the Kindle.  Especially when she

found the hole she could stick her lips through.

We Have a TOOTH!

I was sure that as soon as the first tooth popped out, I would want to shove it back inside Isabel's gums and then shove her inside some newborn clothes and pretend she would never grow up.  HOWEVER, this little tooth that showed up last week is so darn cute I can't bring myself to do it.  (And the physical impossibility of her fitting into her newborn clothes is an issue, though when I imagine her crawling I can see how I would reach the point of trying...)  I did cry a little when I found the tooth, but it was a strange mommy mixture of joy and pride and sadness.  Anyway, that little tooth just snuck in without us even realizing until it was all the way out!  No fussy baby or sore mouth.  Izzie just produced that tooth like it was no big deal.  Like she does it every day.  

Bryan says you can't see the tooth in the pictures.  It's on the bottom, right side.  You're going to need to zoom in, folks.  It's a BABY tooth.  Otherwise just pretend you see it so you can share in my joy.  (PS, if you have ever tried to look in a baby's mouth, let alone take a picture inside of it, you understand why this is the best I can do.  She has yet to master the command of "Open up".)  And the facial expressions in the pictures are interesting.  Bryan and I were working really hard to make her do something to open her mouth...and I think we were creeping her out.  You can see the fear/embarassment/confusion on her face in the last picture.  (Or perhaps it's resignation that these weridos in front of her are, in fact, her parents.)

heehee...

It's true.  She does.

Li'l Scooter

Isabel is newly mobile.  Her rolling has become very advanced, and she scoots backwards so fast.  She can use a combination of rolls, rotations and scoots to get herself anywhere she wants.  And Isabel is already sneaky...she works best and fastest when no one is watching.



 Izzie has a musical toy that we keep under the crib.  She wedged

herself under as far as she could get so she could reach the toy.

And she happily laid there playing her little piano as if this were

a perfectly normal place to be.

Munchie thinks it's really funny when she gets under

the coffee table.  She is completely unfazed when

she inevitably bangs her head on it.  Tough cookie!



A couple of other new things around here.   She has tried her sparkly tennis shoes, which are super cute but a little tight on her pudgy little feet.  And she has also tried her first real solid food...MumMums.  They are basically crackers made of air.  But she thinks it's pretty cool to feed herself.

 

This is how we roll

Mmmmm

 

We took her 6 month pictures with Nana.  We also got some cousin shots with Callie and Carter.  Carter is terrified of Izzie's drool, so we had to keep him as far away from her as possible, while still having them in the same picture.  Luckily Callie is really good with Iz, so we got some good shots.

 

 

 

 

And this picture is just because...well...why wouldn't you want to see this?  Caden likes to hop up on the changing table with Izzie.  And Izzie thinks everything her big cousins do is amazing, so she was game.  He then thought it would be fun to try hats on.  Headbands came next.  They each tried on every single one she owns.  We were on the changing table for awhile.  (And you can't see it, but I'm holding on to Izzie while Bryan takes the picture.  Don't call CPS.)