Aug 15: 8months and busy!

So how do you keep an 8-month-old busy for 20 minutes? Give them 4 Cheerios.

That's about how long it takes her to gum them into a paste....Turns out the large push for eating solids coincides with their ability to do the pincher or grasping motion with the thumb and first finger. She loves this, and besides acting fascinated with her ability to grab a single Cheerio (and she will only grab one at a time... it is pretty cute), she can now also pinch noses, cheeks, etc... so watch out. Her diet is expanding into yogurt (her new faovirte food by far) and cheese.

The bigger news is little Scarlett is 8 months old and having a tremendously monsterous week. Doesn't she look devilish in Craftsman-endtable lair?

First of all, she is getting her first tooth. So the answer to the inevitable question, Daddy, which tooth came in first, is front bottom right (central incisor; tooth P using the universal numbering system for baby teeth for all you dentists out there). Talk to us in 5 years and see if it is the first one to fall out...

But all this teething has the downside of leading to quite a fussy week.. with lots of senseless crying and crazy teething. She also loves drinking out of adult glasses, so it is pretty neat to hear her little single tooth tapping on the glass. The other downside--- 19 more baby teeth to come go---

She is also really getting into standing up, using every possible surface she can to pull herself up into a standing position: the coffee table, the TV stand, the dog, my leg, you name it... unfortunately, this leads to the inevitable falling backwards... luckily she has her mom's hard head. I would have had 3 (more) concussions by now.

Finally, she's transitioning into a sitting position from a crawl or laying down. She's been able to stay in a stitting position on her own for a long time now when we put her in that position, but she hasn't been able to get into that position on her on. For several weeks, she's been doing what we've called the "tripod" sitting all jaunty off to one side with her hand out e.g., in her Craftsman lair picture above. This week, however, she's been able to transition from laying to tripod to a full upright sit. Pretty exciting.

Basically I've been too busy trying to keep up with her to take many photos, but several people have asked to see her crawl, so I took some video and will get it up in the next post...