Ella...8 Months

Dear Baby Ella

Today you are 8 months old!

This is you in a nutshell at the moment:

• You have two little choppers in the bottom row and your top two teeth are just about to poke through also.  Although this makes me super happy, it also makes me feel melancholy because you look so much older and not so much like a baby baby now.

• Not only are you sitting up now (you had only just learned to do this when I did your last update at 6 months) but you are almost on the verge of crawling!  You are so close and when you do learn to coordinate those chubby little arms and legs of yours we won't know what hit us!

• You commando roll all around the floor to get what you want.  You position yourself in the direction you want to go and then roll, roll, roll until you get there.

• You are becoming more and more talkative and now all you say amongst squealing is "da-da-da-da" and it is so cute.  Your daddy is chuffed.  Except at 5am when you wake up (you haven't quite adjusted to non daylight savings time yet) and start saying "da-da-da-da-da".  I take delight in telling Tim that he should be the one to get up since you are calling his name after all!

• You are now in size 1 clothes!  We went to the clinic about a week ago and you weighed 11kg's! You are also in the 97th percentile for your height - you're going to be a tall little girl.

• You now love to sleep and for the first time in months your daddy and I get to sleep the whole night through!  Bless your little cotton socks!  We were all going crazy there for a little while.

• You can clap!  You actually learned this a little while ago but you love to clap.  In the bath, getting dressed, in bed...

• Bath time is your favourite time of the day, and mine too I must confess.  You have just learned how to take the plug out though so I spend most of the time trying to keep your little hands away.
• You love being outside.  We sit on the mat on the grass and you pull clumps of grass out, watch birds and the trees sway and you are completely content.  You love to pat Archie too if he chooses to sit on the blanket with us but he is usually trying to get away from your little hands which are constantly pulling at him.  

It is such a joy to watch you grow and see your little personality starting to emerge.  You make us laugh every day.

We love you so much!