8 Months Old

Dear E,

I am loving you more and more each day. You are my little talker. You just jabber on and on. I love it when you make sounds that remind me of “old man noises.” It's the cutest. It is also fun when L talks back to you. Sometimes you both squeal back and forth for quite a while. It makes me so happy to be a twin mom. 

You have totally mastered the skill of sitting up on your own! You love looking around from this new perspective. You were getting pretty tired of being down on the floor all of the time. Over the last few days, your crawling has gotten really good, too. I've been pretty impressed. 

You are so funny while you are eating food. You like to smile and make noises while you're eating peas, spattering them all over your tray. So far, you've liked everything you've tried, with the exception of avocado. Your dad recorded a pretty hilarious video of you and L making funny faces while he tried to feed it to you. We will have to try that one again another time. 

You and your sister are such good babies.  The only time you go crazy is when you're tired or hungry (which is totally understandable). You do really well around other people. However, you girls are not fans of animals right now. You start crying whenever you are around your grandparents’ dog or the Carrolls’ cat.

You are obsessed with lights of all kinds.  It's fun to watch you play with the lights that shine through the little holes in the blinds.  You also love screens.  TV is a favorite, but I think you prefer phones the most since you can also chew on them (if nobody catches you first).

That basically sums up our month. The only other thing I can think of is that you drool a lot and put everything into your mouth. Your teeth are so close to coming in. I'm going to miss your gummy smiles when they're gone.  

Love you lots!

Mom

Dear L,

You are little Miss Adventurous! You want to explore everything. It's your determination that lead to you learning how to crawl and how to climb up on things. Yes, you climb on everything. And you fall a lot. I'm hoping the falling dies out soon. It breaks my heart every time. You quickly figured out how to pull yourself up on the furniture and on your crib. It was pretty easy to move your crib mattress down, but ‘baby proofing’ the rest of the house has been a little tricky.  

Watching you learn to crawl was so fun. You used to lift your arm way up in the air and then slam it down as you would move forward. Now you're cruising around like a pro. Since you figured out crawling a little bit before E, you definitely used that to your advantage. When there was a toy you both wanted, you would quickly crawl to it and take it before she could get her hands on it. Or you would steal something right out of her hands and crawl away. She's stealing things back now, though. I didn't realize I would have to deal with toy snatching so soon.

 

You have a tooth! It just barely poked through. It had caused you some pain, which was so hard for me to see. The second one will be here any day now. Who knew I could love your smile any more than I already did?

You have been pretty quiet up until now. You just started making more noises this week. I can't wait to hear what you have to say. 

You are such a good girl and are generally easy to please, as long as I keep the milk and the naps coming. You don't like being around animals right now, but I think that will probably change as you get bigger. 

I just love being your mom. You are such a fun, curious baby. I love watching you play with the sunlight shining on the carpet.  You are growing so fast and amazing me every day.

Love you lots,

Mom