Harriet—8 months!

Several weeks ago we went to Mexico with Brian’s family.  While there, Harriet turned 8 months old.  My sister-in-law, Heather, took some family pictures for us and some individual shots of sweet Hattie.  I love these pictures and this cute girl! (had Elna cooperated at all we would have had individual shots of her too)

Look at those teeth!

Love this little one!

At 8 months, Harriet:

--is as mobile as she possibly can be without actually crawling.  Every day I think: today is the day she is going to start crawling!  And then she doesn’t.  (a week after 8 months she crawled for her first time on Thanksgiving day, but that’s for a different post)

--loves, loves, loves the bath!  If she hears the water running for her bath she shakes with excitement.  I love that both girls can take baths together now.

--sleeps best if she has one pacifier in her mouth and another in her hand.  She loves her paci.

--will spit her paci out so fast if she thinks she is about to eat something.  This can be pretty funny when it’s not something she’s going to eat, like something I’m going to eat or something that she can’t eat.  Brian once threw her a cracker, she saw it coming, and her paci came out so fast.  While the cracker was in the air her paci came out and the cracker and paci landed at the same time.  Oh, how I wish I could have gotten that on camera!

--is very ticklish on her chest and has the deepest belly laughs when I nuzzle her there. 

--loves to be in a grocery cart and laughs wildly when I’m pushing her through the parking lot because of how bumpy it gets.  It’s such a fun ride for her!

--she really likes to be held.  This can be endearing or annoying, depending on how you look at it. 

--is generally one of the happiest little babies I’ve ever seen.  We are so in love with her!