Eight Months of Selah Grace

My MIL recently reminded me that since I showed her where the blog is, I haven't done an 8-month update on sweet lil Selah. So, once again, better late than never! At least we're still in the same month....barely, but it counts.

Let's see. Not nearly as much to report this month as last. Seh is crawling like a boss. She doesn't usually move up on all fours, preferring instead to army crawl, but the little one is pretty fast. And determined. She mostly likes to go from the safe place where I put her to someplace far away, preferably full of objects she can put in her mouth and wires to yank on.

Baby-proofing soon is clearly a must.

Photoshoot at City Park

We dropped her crib down last night to the lowest setting because just recently, she has begun pulling herself up to standing when she's supposed to be laying down. Obviously, that made me super nervous, and I had visions of her pitching headfirst out of the crib onto the hardwoods. Thankfully, A brought out the tools last night and took care of that so we can stop lining the floor with body pillows.

 Speaking of standing up, Selah is not only sitting up on her own now (moving from back to belly to bottom), but she is also pulling herself to a standing position frequently. She finds an edge of a table, or a basket or a leg to push off of and away she goes. Pretty soon she'll be figuring out how to do that without any assistance some day soon :(

Selah had her first major fever last week - right before Easter! She was cranky and warm Thursday evening while I had some girls over and I attributed it to her 2nd tooth coming in. Friday, although the tooth was already in, her fever was 101+. We called the pediatrician, who had us come in for a check-up (thank you Lord for health insurance). Although she didn't find anything wrong, the fever last all day Friday and all day Saturday and finally broke Sunday morning. She slept great while fevery, only waking to eat a couple time Saturday, but by the time she started feeling better she was SOOO sleep-full that she didn't want to sleep much Saturday night. Super.....We're finally back on her normal schedule mostly, and I'm so thankful! 12 hours a night with occasional night cries - we're golden. At least until tooth #3 comes in.

Smiley Selah

So, in the last month or so, Selah has gone to the library for the first time, gone on lots of walks, had her 2nd tooth come in, begun wearing bows, mostly mastered crawling, gotten a fever, celebrated her first Easter, begun sitting up on her own, started pulling herself to standing and eaten rice cereal, squash, mashed potatoes, carrots and sweet potatoes. Next on the docket is zucchini! We are all so excited :) She makes noises that sound like "mama," but not with any regularity or any intentionality. I have a feeling though once she really gets to talking there won't be any stopping her!

Anyways, without further ado, here is her 8-month photo!