7 months old:
Morgan experienced her first Easter! We had a very nice time celebrating with family and even did an egg hunt. Next year Morgan will be able to participate a little more ;)
April 27th, 2011
Miss Morgan had her first day of swim lessons and really didn't have much of a reaction to the water. However, as the weeks have past, Morgan is now kicking and splashing in the water and really seems to enjoy our sessions every Wednesday. We have been working on floating on her back, which she still isn't a big fan of, but have introduced a rubber duck that she kicks while floating and therefore, she seems to relax her head back a little more. Lessons last 5 weeks and then we may try them again in the fall.
8 months old:
May1st, 2011
We made a trip back to LaCrosse to see celebrate Meg's Christening and Trev's 5th Birthday Party! We had a wonderful time and all the Aunties and Uncles were back in town, which made the weekend even more special!
May 2nd, 2011
Morgan learned how to go from the lying position to sitting up! Jenny at daycare sent me this text picture of Morgan during naptime...prior to this picture, we had no idea she knew how to get to the sitting position on her own, but apperently felt this position would work well for napping :)
May 10th, 2011
Nana has been trying to get Morgan to do "so big" for many months now...and she finally does it all on her own...sometimes even when you don't ask her :) We were so delighted to see her hit this milestone and would start clapping for her right after she did the "so big" and therefore, she now claps for herself...too stinking cute!
Morgan is also able to eat finger food puffs and shovels them in as fast as you put them on her highchair tray.
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Our daycare provider has been gone the past week, so between Brad, myself, and Nana, we have been taking turns enjoying one on one time with Miss Morgan and today she has decided to officially crawl after doing the army crawl the past couple of weeks!
Morgan's modeling career has begun...da da's words when I sent him the picture of the wall at Dejong Photography..."Sweet Jesus...we're in trouble!" LOL...I can only imagine :)
So as a recap of Morgan at 8 months:
-has her two middle bottom teeth
-waves "hi" and "bye"
-claps her hands
-plays "peek-a-boo"
-loves to do "so big" and squishes her arms against her cheeks when she does it
-crawls
-favorite expensive toys are the cell phone and remote
-favorite toys of hers are the leap frog school bus, stacking cups, Elmo phone, and sing-a-majig
-favorite book is Sesame Street Beginnings "At the Zoo" (she loves pointing to the giraffe)
-eats baby food with cereal and drinks baby milk
-takes a bottle without fussing
-takes two naps a day and has recently started going to sleep without rocking, but rather we lay her down on her belly and rub her back for a few minutes
-most nights she sleeps through the night (bedtime about 7:30pm and wakes about 6:00am)
-loves to cuddle and snuggle
-has started to take interest in Baby Einstein Videos
-says "da da" all the time and every now and then will say "ma ma" (we are still not quite sure she knows the correlation though)
-is one happy baby and only fusses when she is hungry or tired
We have Morgan's 9 month check-up in a few weeks and are looking forward to hearing her stats! We will keep you posted!
