Emi!! Why are you in such a hurry to grow up?? You are 8 months now... Wow, as always, your being one months older comes as such a shock. Also a shock is how tall and heavy you are. As per your checkup this month, you are above the 97th percentile for height and just above the 50th for weight. You do indeed look like a really tall baby!
I had talked before about how increasingly mobile you had become and this month wasn't the exception. You are definitely happiest either standing holding on to something, climbing stairs, crawling ( a proper crawl now) or anything BUT lying on your back. Which takes me to the following picture:
Haha, not a happy camper when you lie on your back, and diaper changes have become a witch!
Elimination communication is still going strong. Sometimes it surprises me how good you are when I take you pee and we can last a good while without a diaper. However, I still haven't ventured to take you out of the house without a diaper, since your poops can still take me by surprise from time to time.
You have also started to make more coordinated sounds, like maybe the beginnings of syllables. Sometimes I even think you are trying to imitate the word "Hola" . I think maybe you have also started to waive, but that one is still a bit inconsistent.
You are still nursing a lot during the day and even more so at night, but I'm not really keeping track. You have certainly lost interest a little during the day and most times you just nurse for a minute or two and then get distracted by something else, usually your brother. At night though, you still wake up pretty frequently, about every 2.5 or 3 hours, but since you are sleeping with me I just nurse you in bed and you quickly go back to sleep.
Speaking of sleep, in the last month your sleep patterns have been... pretty awful. The last week or two we hit rock bottom when you started waking up super frequently, screaming and unable to be settled back to sleep. I thought it was because you had caught a little cold from your brother, but I just noticed you have two big teeth breaking on the top, so that explains it all.
Finally, you and your brother are starting to interact a bit more, although I am afraid not always in the best of ways. Your brother still has a hard time sharing his toys and his parents with you, so every day is full of little battles, but you are pretty good at defending yourself considering you are only 8 months! I am afraid for what is to come!
Emi, we love you, my little baby. I am grateful everyday for you, and for watching you grow.
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