Countdown to Baby Harrison!: Eight months old!

Our little turkey is 2/3 of a year old already! Where did the time go? She is getting to be such a big girl now. She can hold and eat finger food by herself now: sticks of cooked carrot, squash and sweet potato, steamed broccoli, banana and rice husks (Baby Mum Mum). I even gave her Cheerios the other day and she was able to pick them up and eat them. I was so afraid she'd choke but she hasn't yet. She really seems to enjoy the independence. I think I am going to try and find her some pouches to eat out of - they seem like a good idea. She is still mostly eating purees - today on the menu is carrots and roast beef.

Still not quite expertly crawling. Those knees are just not getting up under her. She can go pretty far with a combo of army crawling and barrel-rolling though! Once in a while she gets a knee going and pushes forward. Hopefully she'll have it figured out soon. She continues to want to stand all the time and hold onto things to the point that she'll cry if we try to make her sit or lie down. She tried out her dinosaur walker and really liked it but was a little reluctant to walk forward with it. She prefers to still walk holding on to one of us. A couple of times she has been able to sit up from lying on her back as well.

She has started to say "mama" and does so usually when she is trying to crawl and is frustrated and looks up at me forlornly. "Dada" is for when she is happy! She is pointing at everything these days. I try and tell her the word for whatever she points at. Not sure on the weight right now as the scale at Ys moms is not working right. I am guessing still somewhere around 18 lbs.

We have been enjoying the few nice days and going for walks with her stroller. Nice to have friends we can walk with too. We are sad to be losing one of our main playdates as Tara is headed back to work and Adrian to daycare. We'll really miss hanging out with those two.

An awesome thing that happened this last month is that Mairi's Uncle Dan and Auntie Devon came to visit her from Vancouver. They hadn't seen her since she was just a tiny baby so this was really neat. We had a great time with them at the lake. Miss those guys so incredibly much. It was so cool to see them with her.

On Easter weekend we got to have a visit with my cousin Nathan, his wife Terry, and their twins Addy and Ella. We had a hoot with those guys! The highlight was definitely hunting for golf balls on the course at the lake. So much fun! And we collected over 600 balls!

It is raining here today and I'm really wishing that spring would just hurry up and get here. But not go too quickly. I am realizing that I only have spring and summer and then she's a year. I am cherishing every moment.