Amelia Takes On the World

My dearest Amelia,

You were 8 months old Monday. It is crazy how fast time goes by – you are growing so fast. You weigh over 19 lbs and we think you are over 26 inches – but no one would call you tall yet. I love your chunky little thighs – they are so cute and squeezable.

You are close to crawling – however, we’ve noticed you can get to things by rolling, so I’m not sure you feel the need to crawl. You love standing and talking to people, you just squeal with delight.

We mostly just call you by your name Amelia these days – but you are also known by ‘fuss pot’ and ‘crankipants’ if you get in a fussy mood or just ‘cutie-pie’ because you are so adorable. You are still my Amelia-bug and I still love lady bugs on anything for you – but mostly you are just Amelia, your own unique self.

Your favorite games, the ones that can make you giggle and laugh, are playing with puppets or stuffed animals. You really enjoy if we make them dance or if we play the ‘near – far’ game with you. That can really get you going. You save your laughs for special moments, so it is such a joy to hear.

Eating has been an adventure. So far you don’t like texture so only stage 2 foods for you. With the stage 3 fruits you eat the sauce and spit out the chunks – its kind of funny. You did eat your first Gerber puffs on Friday – I think you like them. So maybe the texture-aversion is on the way out. We also unfortunately gave you dairy on Friday – I promise we didn’t mean it, but the packaging was labeled just like your other fruit/oatmeal combos – so I’m sorry. And apparently you are still intolerant as you then were sick all over the car – so I guess we paid for our mistake. After a weekend to recover from that – you seem to be back to your happy schedule of 4 bottles a day and 3 meals of solids. I think your favorite is your oatmeal or barley cereal but pear sauce and the apple sweet potato combos are a close second. The only thing that has made you pause (other than texture) was the chicken mixed with sweet potato – but I don’t blame you there. Chicken? In a jar? I think we’ll wait until I just puree or chop up chicken in small chunks for you -how about that.

You celebrated your 8 month lunar birthday last night by attempting to clap – I’m very excited about that. I’ve been working on it and up until now you showed no interest. But last night, during a couple rounds of ‘If You Are Happy And You Know It’ – you tried to clap with us – yeah! So proud of you.

Its hard to capture your adorable-ness in a blog post – we’ll put some pictures but even those don’t do you justice. You are our precious Amelia and we love you so much.

Love,

Mom

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