Annabel - Eight months
Well, these are taking me longer and longer to actually write. Our girl turned eight months old about two weeks ago and continues to bring such giant smiles to our faces! Let's see if I can remember what was new that month, seeing as she is doing new things constantly. First of all, she finally likes to eat food! I kept periodically trying puree here and there, and at last shortly after her 7 month mark she willingly and eagerly opened her mouth to eat what I was offering. Since then we introduced puffs so she could start working on hand/eye coordination, and we quickly learned that she was all about feeding herself. She went from awkwardly gripping them in her fist to using her pincer grasp within 2 weeks. She now flails her legs and arms when we sit her in her high chair and she can see the container of puffs. I continue to offer her purees merely to introduce new foods to her for allergy observation, but she really doesn't care too much about being spoon fed. ...