8 Months!

In my opinion the first 6 months of the first year let you adjust to your baby growing and changing at a gradual pace. Your baby puts on weight, gets chunky, starts to smile and interact and recognize your face. They laugh and roll over and then start to sit and play with toys. They are all exciting milestones, but they just sort of slowly emerge and you feel like you naturally adjust. But the second 6 months are like BAM! One BIG milestone after another. They start eating solids. Start to scoot. Then crawl. Then they stand. Then walk. Then talk! BIG time life changers all the sudden. Too much! These babies need to slow down.

At 8 months old Carys was doing just what her 8 month old self should be doing. She still didn't have a single tooth to call her own, but hey, one less kid to worry about brushing their teeth...right? Here is what Carys was up to at 8 months:
-Eating solids, but not very well. She hated baby food! When most kids go through 2 things of baby food each meal of the day, you were lucky to get 1 into this girl in the entire day. Yogurt however was a completely different story. This girl is a yogurt maniac. And we figured out that she has texture issues and just wants something to chew on instead of mush to eat. So we started some banana and steamed apple or carrots. We also did some baby cherrios and puffs and that was making meal time much happier.

-Scooting around and moving quite well...Just on the verge of crawling (started crawling right after she turned 8 months old).

-Pulling herself up to standing. Mostly in her crib but also on furniture sometimes.

-Taking 2 good naps a day. Goes to bed around a 8 and wakes up around 7....with a middle of the night feeding and waking up 1 or 2 other times as well.

-Loves the puppy. Loves to watch Toby and loves when Toby comes and lays down next to her.

-Loves to be in the swing outside. Will sit by the sliding glass door and watch the big kids play outside and long to be out there with them.

-Loves to play patty cake and sing songs or read books.

-Loves her big brothers and sister!

-Does not love strangers. When people in stores try to talk to her she just gives them dirty looks or stares at them or starts to cry (unlike her siblings who would smile at anyone that would give them attention. Apparently Carys is a bit more guarded and cautious)

 Those eyes definitely seem to be staying blue and her hair just gets more and more blond. Carys definitely looks the most like her big brother Conner. She is such a happy, easy going, fun loving little girl. We love our little Carys so much!