Just Powers

Emma turned 8 months old yesterday. She has had a busy month. She is now sleeping through the night consistently, sitting up with no wobbling, standing pretty solidly as long as she is holding onto something, and CRAWLING! She is kind of doing the army style crawl right now - using her arms to pull herself along on her belly, but I expect she will be cruising with the dogs and cats within the week.

She had a lot of firsts this month too. First time at the beach, first time sitting in a shopping cart, first time flying a kite (ok, she didn’t so much fly it as provide moral support), and on and on and on…She meets each new experience very seriously and with a lot of concentration and determination.

As you can see in this picture though, she knows how to have a good time too. While the dogs fascinated her a month or two ago, now it’s the cats that she can’t stop watching. We are working on teaching her a few signs, and so far “cat” seems to be the one she has figured out. If we do the sign for cat and a cat is in the room, she immediately looks over at said animal. Brilliant.