8 months!

Our sweet baby girl is 8 months old. Yes she is still just as sweet as can be. I dont think it gets much sweeter than this. She continues to bring so much joy and light into our lives. This month was a huge month for her! She is doing all kinds of new things! She is crawling all over the place and she is really good at it. She chases her buddy Hulk all around the house (under tables and into the closet and all over the house).  Her obsession with Hulk continues to grow everyday. As soon as you as her where hulk is she frantically looks all over for him and has a hige smile on her face. She loves petting his fur and crawling all over him. He is getting used to it, but I still cant say he likes it any better. I love seeing her light up when she sees him. I think they will be geat friends over time. She is getting a good workout these days. She also started pulling herself up all over the place. She loves to stand up and has such a proud look on her face when she is playing while standing. Currently she can only lifet herself onto things taht are a foot off the ground, the coffee table is still just a tad to high for her to get up on. I think we have a few more weeks for that. She is also eating lots of good stuff theses days. She loves crackers and gerber puffs, pancakes, sphagetti and bread. She can pretty much chew anything soft with just those two front teeth, pretty amazing if you ask me. She also started drinking water from a sippy cup (actually it is a straw cup). A friend of ours said her daughter had a really hard time with the sippy cup because she could never understand to tip her head back to drink it. Since she switches from bottle to breast so easily she doesnt really understand the sippy cup needs to be tilted, so we tried a straw cup and she takes it like a champion. It is really fun to watch. This girl defnitely doesnt hide her excitement and pride in doing new things. I swear she sits a little bit taller and has a bigger smile when she is drinking from her straw. She has this spererate "Look at me Face". She is really just the most coordinated little thing. She easily rolls over gets on her knees and gets into a sitting position. She can also maeuver her little body all around to get things she needs. Most mornings when she wakes up I go in her room and find her sitting up with a huge grin on her face just waiting for Momma to come and get her. She is laughing all the time. I think it is so funny when she is sitting playing with her toys and just starts laughing. It always makes me laugh, you have to wonder what is so funny that made her laugh out loud. She really is the happiest little baby around. She is easy to take just about anywhere. She accomodates really well to her surroundings. She has this stare when we go places and you can tell she is taking down every detail she can before she decided whether or not she is going to like the place we have taken her. We have been having a play group on Thursdays with some other mom's in the area. Franki absolutely loves other kids. She climbs all over them and really just enjoys playing with other kids. She has such a sweet little sole. She will crawl over to other said child and rub there head or hair. It cracks me up. (maybe she is just jealous of all the hair her new friends have!) She contiues to make everything in our lives taht much better. She entertains Tyler and I all day everyday and we cant get enough of her. We have been blessed with our little sweetie pie. 8 months old and thriving! Now that she is on the move she will just crawl right into your lap and lay her head on your chest. She especially loved cuddling with her Moma this past weekend. She loved crawling right into her lap and giving her lots of love. She really is starting to get to know and recognize faces that she sees often. You can tell when she recongnizes a face because her smile spreads all the way across her face up into her eyes. She just has one of those smiles, you dont even need to see her mouth , you can just look at her eyes and knows she is smiling. If she doesnt recongize a face she has this dead serious stare that she literally could burn holes if they could. Il lhave to take a picture of her stare next time she does it because it is funny to she this happy little baby so serious. Her serious side comes out anytime we are in public or if there is a lot going on whereever we are. When she gets in one of these staring modes not even I can get her to laugh. Im still nursing her and she continues to get 100% of her milk from her momma. I am so happy I have made it this far. If you recall I had a severe nursing phobia and her I am now one of the biggest breastfeeding advocates out there. 3 more months before I start to wean her. I plan on weaning her right around the one year mark. Well I am going to get back to my little love bug who currently is laying sprawled across my chest, thumb in mouth, sweaty head and clingy body perfectly conformed right onto me. She had a bit of a temperature today, and has been making some seriously strange faces with her mouth, so I am guessing she is getting some more teeth. So for the next couple of days ill enjoy my spring break from work and cuddle our little love bug back to her normal happy, crawling, active baby self. For now ill just stare at her sweet chubby knucles that grip my shirt every so tightly not to let her go and embrace every minute that she is still a baby. Happy 3/4 of a year old my darling Francesca Kaureen! 

If You look closely you can see her two teeth!