At eight months, Tessa:
- clapped along with us once or twice but it isn't a regular thing yet.
- has her first two teeth! We were so sure she was going to get that fang first, but it seems to have been scared away by the two in the front on the bottom.
- pulls up to stand on the couch and will take a few cruising steps if she really wants to. Her current motivators: the wipes container and any of Norah's toys too small for her to play with.
- walks around holding onto hands.
- drops toys on purpose. She doesn't think this is hilarious yet - maybe we are not pretending to be exasperated enough to really make it funny?
- eats her fruits and vegetables well, peas and green beans are her favorites.
- loves mum-mums. They are a great distraction when we need to cook or eat dinner ourselves.
- also loves cold teethers. Just not frozen teethers. Those we save for Norah.
- loves to climb the entry stairs, so we have to set up a fort of toys and baskets around it (which she is becoming skilled at breaking through).
- is regrowing her hair after losing most of it last month. She doesn't have enough for clips yet but having no bald spots is good enough for us.
- loves (LOVES) taking baths with Norah. Daddy made a mistake and didn't put her in with Norah one night and she was uuuuupppppset. Mommy was smart and put her in with Norah during another bath and she was as happy as a clam.
- is unpredictable at night. Sometimes she wakes up once, sometimes twice, and a few glorious times not at all. She does tend to want to get up at 5:30, though...
- is starting to say the usual babble sounds with occasional screeching sessions.
- shakes her head "no". At first she just did this to imitate us but she has started to do it in response to us nodding "yes". Funny story or a sign of future battles of will?
- waved bye bye to her cousins in Wyoming when we Skyped on Easter.
And here are the pictures:
