I didn’t post about Timberlyn last month so I thought I should catch up a bit. She is eight months old now and really developing her own little personality. She is still a happy baby and loves any attention that we give her. She is laughing and we love to listen to her giggle. She still won’t roll over or crawl at all. I think she could roll if she wanted but she doesn’t seem all that interested. She can sit up though, and she’ll play with toys which makes it really nice. I can sit her on the floor and surround her with toys and she just sits and plays and doesn’t go anywhere!
She has started on solid foods and likes pretty much everything. Her favorite things are anything she can feed herself. She likes crackers and pizza crust and is starting to like a little dry cereal but it takes her awhile before she can get a piece to her mouth. I think half of the enjoyment is watching her try to get it there! She doesn’t like to be left alone and will cry if she can’t see anyone for too long.
She likes to take baths and love to play in the water just like Miranda. We are excited for the beach this summer. She is starting to recognize that people look different. She smiles for those that she knows and studies those that she doesn’t. If you pass the test, then she will give strangers a smile too! I have to teach at church and when Leonard is gone for stake business then she gets passed around to different members at church. She seems to tolerate it pretty good.
She still has an umbilical hernia that she has had since birth. We took her to a surgeon and he plans to look at her again at one year old to see if she will need surgery to correct it.
It freaks us out a little bit but she doesn’t seem to care. It’s a little weird though and makes a squeaky noise when it moves in and out – it mostly scares me when I can hear it across the room in the morning as she wakes up! We hope that it will correct itself as she gets bigger!
I am still nursing her although she has become more of a social eater. She doesn’t like to be covered up and she likes to eat a little and then look around and then eat a little again. Needless to say, I have to nurse her in a private, quiet room or it takes FOREVER!!!
She is starting to babble and will say “dada” when she is happy. She can also clap her hands and she does this when she is happy too. She “pops” her mouth by smacking her lips – sometimes when she is hungry- sometimes just for fun. She can also be pretty loud when she wants to be - some pretty good squeals come out of that girl!!
She is a really good baby and I can’t believe that it has been 8 months since she was born. These last 8 months certainly went faster then the previous months when I was pregnant with her!
Love you Timber!
