Crawling and Eating and Babbling, oh my!

We've been busy around here. Avy is the most amazing child in the world, I'm convinced, and she makes me laugh more than anybody. Here are some of her new "tricks"...

1. She's crawling. Okay, so she's crawling backwards, but that still counts because she gets exactly where she wants to go! She's all over the place now. I'll sit her down on the floor (on her butt, that is), and go into the kitchen to pour myself a bowl of cereal and come back and she's eating our Christmas tree on the other side of the room. (She's also ingested about a pint of dust tumble weed, I've calculated.)

2. She's eating. Solids, that is. Her favorites are squash (acorn and butternut are all she's tried so far), peas, and pumpkin. She has also had sweet potatoes (they give her crazy gas - so we try to stay away from those), apples, bananas, avocado (she's allergic), tofu, pears (this is the only fruit she likes!), and plums. I make all of her baby food, which is not only super exciting and really fun for me (not to mention fast, which surprised me), but it's also incredibly cheap and much better for her because I only buy her organic things. This has inspired our diet to become much healthier than ever before. (If you want to join my baby-food-making movement, please let me know. I'm looking for food-making buddies!)

3. She's babbling like CRAZY! This is my favorite new thing of hers. She has her own language and is chattering all the time. (She's just like Allen.) :o) Her most frequently used words/sounds are "Dada," "Ya-Ya," "yish," and sometimes she says "Mama." Her favorite times to talk are (a) when someone else is talking, or (b) in the car while she's staring in her car mirror (I'm convinced she thinks it's her baby friend, not herself). This is just the best part of having an 8-month-old, hands down.

I couldn't end this entry without mentioning Allen's favorite new thing she does (and my second favorite), and that's clapping. You haven't seen anything good until you've seen a baby clapping. It's unimaginably cute, and the more excited you get when she does it, the more she does it. Which brings me to my next point...

I've been updating our Picasa online picture album very faithfully (regardless of my lack of dedication to writing in this blog lately...), so check them out! There's at least one of Avy clapping, not to mention Halloween pictures, baptism pictures, crawling pictures, eating pictures -- the list goes on and on. The 7 Month Old ones especially won't disappoint. Here's a preview for you.

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[Mom]

Man, is she ever adorable! I love her to pieces!!!