Quincy Grace turned 8 months old last weekend. She got three more teeth, so she has six now. Two top ones and four bottom ones. She actually bit me on the shoulder a couple of times, I hope that doesn't turn into a habit. Her teeth are pretty short still but they are sharp. She crawls everywhere now. A few weeks ago she started army crawling. She didn't like to let me see her though, if she knew I was close she would just cry until I got her where she wanted to go. Probably because she knew it was faster than getting there on her own.
She has pulled herself up to her feet a couple of times this week, but once she's up she's not really sure what to do next. We had to get baby gates up so that I could leave her downstairs while I shower and not worry about her going into the kitchen. She likes the stools and the other day she pulled one down on her face when I wasn't looking.
She still wakes up once or twice at night, but her naps are usually longer now so I'm okay with that. She doesn't nurse before every nap either, so I think we have good sleeping habits so far. I had to take the bumpers off of her crib because she was destroying them. She broke one of the strings off of it. I caught her using it to push her feet on so she could push herself up a couple of times. With the bumper gone, she throws her binkies out of the crib every night. When she wakes up I almost always have to move the crib away from the wall and find one of her binkies. They are usually all in the same spot though, so I don't know what that's about.
She still loves water bottles of all kinds. She grabs mine all the time and chews on the spout. I finally found her a sippy cup after trying a couple of different ones. She doesn't take a bottle and I didn't know how to get her to drink enough. The first one I got leaked everywhere and she pretty much just dumped water all over herself every time she had it. I tried one with a straw and I tried to teach her how to drink from it but she hasn't picked it up yet. I finally found one that she can drink out of but is also leak proof so she doesn't soak herself with it.
I bought some baby finger foods this month as well. I figured she should learn how to feed herself a little bit. When I would pour the little puffs or fruit melts in front of her in her high chair, she just looked at them. She didn't know what to do with them. Then I went and bought some veggie straws from costco, which are longer, and she grabbed those and put them in her mouth right away, and she made the connection that they were food. She munches them down until she hits her fist, and then she tries to get the last part out of her hand. She's kind of getting it. Since she's been eating those she has been a lot closer to being able to eat the little puffs and melts on her own. I love watching her try and figure out how to position them in her fingers right without dropping them. Her coordination isn't quite there yet.
Babies are seriously so cute when they sleep with their butts up in the air!!
My mom came to visit last weekend and we went down to Utah to go shopping. Quinn was a great little shopping buddy. She got tired of the stroller pretty quickly so then she rode around on my hip in the sling for most of the time. That worked out though because then we piled the stroller up with our shopping bags and pushed them around. She grabbed anything she could reach. She dove for the things she couldn't reach. She would literally bend over backwards trying to touch things.
We took jars of baby food with us in the diaper bag and then whenever we stopped to eat, we fed her in the high chair at the restaurant or in the stroller. She loved being in the stores and the restaurants. She couldn't get enough of watching what people were doing. She would turn around backwards in the high chairs so she could watch people. She does that when she rides in the shopping cart too. I usually try to buckle her into those things, but for some reason they are always super tight! Yes, I know they can be loosened. Even all the way loose though, they barely go around her belly. What kind of kids are they thinking ride in those carts?
I just love this outfit. She gets all dressed up most days, because I love doing it! She looks more put together than I do. Maybe she makes me look better.
She has been pretty clingy lately, and she likes me to sit on the floor and play with her. She used to not even notice where I was but now she crawls over to me and attempts to climb up me. I love it. I love playing with her. Even though she thinks that my hair is a toy and that my face is a stepping stone for her to try to get wherever she is going. She makes me laugh every day. She blows raspberries all the time and sprays me with spit, and it's so cute. She squeals as high pitched as she can. She hums while she eats. She sings in the car. And I just love her.
