8 months!

Kendyl is two-thirds of the way through her first year of life and it breaks my heart. I just want her to stay my baby forever. On a more positive note though she just keeps raising the cuteness bar! I have been able to stay home with her this month because I am off work for the summer and I seriously do not know how I am going to go back in the fall! We have so much fun together during the day and I do not want to miss a second of it! It is pretty safe to say that she is the most lovable, mellow baby ever. She continuously amazes me with how well she can roll with the punches (this is not a trait that she got from me!). She generally wakes up between 6:30 and 7. She takes two naps; one at 9:00 and the other at 2:00. Her naps generally last for about 1-2 hours, then she goes to bed around 7:30 or 8:00. She still eats cereal for breakfast (her favorite meal of the day) and a vegetable or fruit for dinner. She talks all the time and has gotten her b, m, g, and k sounds down really well. The crawling has been mastered and she is now able to get from room to room which keeps me on my toes all day long. The mommy's girl phase is still in high gear though she really enjoys playing with Matt. Some of the things I want to remember from this month are:
-Getting her ears pierced. She actually did pretty well and only cried a little bit.
-We will hold a stuffed animal up and say "give so and so a kiss" and she will lean in and kiss them. It is so stinkin' cute!
-One day we were out in the back yard and she crawled off into the grass. She crawled halfway into the yard with her butt up in the air so her knees would not touch the grass! I got it on video camera if I ever take the time to figure out how to download it.
-She loves to hold her diaper cremes especially the tube of "Butt Paste"
-She loves playing with Katie even though Katie hates it.
-She has become even more dependent on her pacifier...oops!
-She LOVES going shopping with me! She smiles at random people in the store and just has a grand old time digging through my purse and throwing things on the floor. Walmart will forever have a pink pacifier under the shelves in the baby food aisle...
-She does not like her shoes. I pretty much never made her wear them until now. When I first put them on her she would bend her knees whenever we tried to make her stand so she didn't have to stand in the shoes.
-She now has her 2 bottom teeth.
-She is learning to share. She will take her toys and hold them out to us. Sometimes she lets us take them...other times she just likes the idea of sharing, but not the act of it so much.

Here are some pictures from the month. As usual there are a ton of them!

8 months

That red spot on her lip was blood. She fell and hit her lip on her dresser drawer knob. I have never seen her cry so hard...mother of the year!

Giving kisses to Mickey :)

She was eating a raspberry

This is Kaeden and Kendyl when they were about 1 month old...

and this is them now. These guys were born 2 days apart. Kaeden is the son of my friend Heidi at work.

We got her a new walker

She didn't really want to walk with it though she she kept trying to sit down.

She eventually got her way and decided to crawl with it...

Such a priss

It might be time to use the regular bath. She has learned to crawl out of this one...

Pulling clothes out of a laundry basket...go figure!

Oooh! I can get into some of dad's movies now!

LOVE that dimple

Floating in the raft that Granny got her!

Shopping at Toys R Us

Snuggling with Mickey (her new best friend)

Being mischievous!

She kept this on for the longest time. I think she liked it!

This one is for Courtney. She is the only one who will find this picture as hilarious as I do :)

"Helping" with the dishes ;) Don't worry I moved all the knives

Katie HATES when she does this...

but I don't think Kendyl cares.

Kendyl cries = mom takes a picture. Ha ha!

Who needs toys when there is a bowl full of water on the floor that I can get into?

She has put at least 10 pieces of dog food in her mouth!