8 Months Old!!

Ok, I am a day late in posting this... but Lorelai is now 8 months old!  Hard to believe. Taking these monthly pictures are getting so difficult now.  Lorelai will not sit still!  Now that she is mobile she never likes to stay in one place.  

Lorelai got frustrated when I asked her to sit still.  She wanted to move!

Still not wanting to sit still for a picture.  This little baby wants to go go go!

Ride 'em, Cowgirl! Ride that.......

Goat??!  We got this rocking-goat for Lorelai in Prague before she was born.  Apparently, there's a fairy tale in Prague that uses a goat as one of the main characters.  We thought it was unique.  She doesn't really know what to do on the goat yet, but she sure was proud of herself for staying on!



Dead to the world

Lorelai did NOT want to get up this morning.  She was in a mini-coma.  Time to get up!

Thank God for a highchair!

It was becoming pretty frustrating and unbearable to feed Lorelai without her highchair.  It's so nice to have our household goods, even though so much of it was damaged. (sigh).  Here are some pictures of Lorelai enjoying her highchair.  She doesn't have teeth yet.  Her two bottom ones are just poking through the gums.  She really likes to gnaw on fruit.  Lorelai makes a sticky mess but it's nice to stick her in her high chair with something to eat while I'm cooking and she completely entertains herself. 

MMMmmm!  Pears!

Lorelai still doesn't know what to do with these bits of cereal yet.  She doesn't like to eat them just yet but she practices her pincher grasp by picking them up.  The dog also enjoys her practicing as much of the cereal ends up on the floor.  When Lorelai is in her highchair, Addie is not far away.

A girl and her dog...

Lorelai is getting much better at being mobile and scooting/crawling around.  When she sees something in the distance that she wants, she goes after it.  Unfortunately, what she usually wants is the dog.  Poor Addie is a good sport but she puts up with a lot of abuse.  There are two videos below f her crawling around with the dog.

The most fun toy around...

NEWSPAPER!  Out of all the toys she has, it's amazing how much joy she gets out of a newspaper. Go figure. We were getting ready for bed and Lorelai got a hold of Daddy's military paper.  She loved it.  I think she really liked the sound it made when she played with it.  Don't mind the buzzing in the video.  I was brushing my teeth.  hahaha. She is so funny!  I love to watch her discover things.

Little Detective...part 2

I wrote recently how Lorelai loves to inspect things now.  She will look at something that interests her, with her brow furrowed, and just checks it out.  It's real cute to watch.  I caught her inspecting her toy monkey and after about 5 minutes, decided to video tape it.  She was very interested in the monkey's feet.

Reclined in her jumparoo.  Inspecting her toy monkey