8 months old!

Our baby girl is 8 months old today! She's growing so quickly and learning new things - just yesterday she woke up and could get onto her hands and knees and rock back and forth as if she could crawl away. She's usually pretty happy and quite the chatty girl. She's been introduced to more table food this last week and enjoys eating Baby Mum-Mums (this puffy rice treat that is in the shape of a surfboard). She likes playing with "new" toys and doesn't even reach for those that she's seen recently. She loves playing with the little tykes piano and xylophone piano. She likes shaker toys and toys that make a good "bop" on the highchair tray. We think she's the pretty baby girl we've ever seen and we love her so!

In honor of her 8 month "birthday" (and because she makes a gorgeous model and I needed a few pics of some new bibs), we had a mini-photoshoot and here are a few of the best:

Smart Kiddos and a few pictures

Today Owen matched letters!! Not kidding - he played with BeBe's Iphone - she has an app for "my first words" - and he was moving those letters around and placing them right on top of the matching letter with no help! He's a genius (or at least we think so)! Anna Claire didn't want him to be the only one showing off today so she wiggled her fingers "bye-bye" for the first time today.

When we played outside today, I finally remembered to bring the camera. Anna Claire loves her swing (as you can see) and I've been wanting to get a picture of her big grin when she is swinging. She sat in the grass and chewed on a stick and a few flowers and, all in all, had a fun time. Here are a few pictures from today.

new word

Anna Claire said, "ma ma ma" for the first time TODAY! Yay - makes me sooo happy! I've been waiting for this for a while.