Update!

I always wondered why bloggers with babies didn't seem to post as frequently as I expected.

Now I know.

Time sure does fly. Piper is 8 months old now. She's got two teeth, and I'm sure more pretty shortly on the way. She's pulling herself up to standing, and is just on the verge of starting to try to walk a little. She smiles when you entertainer her and play with her. She is working on words, with lots of "mamama"'s and some "dadadada"'s and lots of other "boblebobleboble" here and there. Our favorite toys are some simple plastic colored 'envelopes' that came with a fisher price mailbox, and the TV remote. She turns to watch when Yo Gabba Gabba comes on. She seems to have "finished" in sign language - she's been doing it for weeks now, not especially articulated, but when she'll wave her hand around and refuse to eat more. We're still working on "hungry". She likes to clap her hands together, and sometimes to grab our hands and clap them together. She's a big fan of buttons and any small detail on something, she'll pick at it, fascinated.

We had our first big headcold-funk. She and Krissi both got it, and I had it a little bit. Piper sounded terrible, coughing and all stuffed up. We kept an eye on her and they're both doing much better now.

She's been a real champ when it comes to most foods. We've been really ambitious when it comes to giving her 'real' food to eat. I made some chicken soup from scratch the other day, and we puree'd some of it to feed to her. She's had bits of chicken, turkey, banana, avocado, beef, potato, carrot, and sweet potato.

My brain keeps yelling that I should format this post better, or gussy it up somehow, instead of just letting it be a weird list of stuff that Piper is up to. But that's all I've got. See you next time!