8 months old

K is 8 months old today and I can't believe it.  Time is flying!  She is becoming a very busy little girl.  She thinks she can do anything.  She crawls everywhere and is finally crawling on all fours instead of Army crawling.  She is also pulling up on everything now.  Sometimes it takes her a while because she is so short she can't reach everything but she is figuring things out.  Yesterday she even started letting go thinking she could stand on her own.  Of course, it didn't work out to well for her because she fell down.  But by the end of the day she was at least figuring out how to go down gracefully! 
She weighed 16.4 pounds last Friday when we were at Dr. D's office and she is finally starting to outgrow most of her 3-6 month clothes.  She smiles all of the time and chuckles.  She recognizes Luke, Seth, and Jules now but she still doesn't let them hold her for long.  She will push people away when she doesn't want them. 
She will sometimes give me a kiss when asked.  She sticks out her tongue when we stick out our tongues or ask "where is your tongue?"  She loves to watch J act silly and will laugh at him.  She likes to pull his hair and pat his face.  Any room J is in she wants to be in too. 

Check out those big blue eyes! 

This is her getting ready to run away from me.  See the smile!

I love paci pics!  Notice the wet dress front...so ready for those 4 teeth to come in.

We are so proud she knows she has a tongue!

Those sweet cheeks! 

She is usually crawling toward me or on me when she is smiling so I can only get a good pic of that sweet smile when she is contained in a seat somewhere!  Precious girl!!

We are having so much fun with this beautiful baby girl!  We are so happy to have her in our lives.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.Vincent van Gogh