8 Month old Girl

(Poor baby is so neglected when it comes to my record keeping, this was written 2 months ago and has sat in the drafts folder (along with 6 other posts), waiting for mummy to finish it.)

With both of the boys my favorite baby age was about 4 months, but right now is by far my favorite time with this girl.  She's so much fun! She cracks us up all the time.

New years day she started to crawl (7 months).  It was such a funny experience.  We'd been trying to get her to crawl for weeks with no success.  Then new years day Malachi dropped a piece of cookie on the ground, Lani saw it, and she was away!  It took her about a week to figure out that crawling is not only a way to get things you want, but also a mode of transportation.  And now the sky's the limit.  Baby gates are up, doors are closed, and we vacuum twice a day. Hoi!  But I just love having a little person crawl into the room, or come looking for me.  I love finding her in random places (she especially loves being under things), and she looooooves being chased around the house.

 

A couple of weeks after she started crawling, she started pulling herself up on things - which also means she started falling off things.  Poor chicky.  Luckily the falling part didn't last long and mostly now she just makes a mess.  She loves pulling the DVD's off the shelf, and is now tall enough to reach the tissue box.  We've had to blockade the bookshelf because she did some damage there.  It's funny, it's like you JUST get over that stage with one child, just to have another one start up.

 

She loooooooves to eat.  Only self-feeding will do for her, we stopped bothering to even buy baby food ages ago because it just got thrown out (or Vili ate it).  She loves everything and anything she can get her hands on.  And she's figured out that if she crawls under the table she's bound to find the remnants of someones meal.  Gross.

 

 

Lani is talking so much more, especially when I'm growling talking to the boys, she yells at them just like me.  And she mimicks sounds too, she'll copy you if you say muma or dada or rara or baba.

 

She has this cheeky face that she makes, if she's done something silly or made us laugh.  It is hilarious.  She is such a clown.

Lani is by far the chubbiest baby we've had.  She started wearing size 1 clothes at about 7 months, not because she's particularly tall, but because she's just chubby!  She has this big belly and HUMONGOUS thighs and butt.  It makes me laugh because her brothers are such bean polls and she's this chunk.  She wears bigger nappies then Vili. I even got a picture of the 2 of them, showing how vastly bigger then him she is, even though he's 2 years older.

 

She's also our cuddliest baby.  We've never had a baby that snuggles into your neck or chest.  The boys would do it when they were tired, but she does it almost every time you pick her up, especially if you've been away.  And she is really good about being away from Mummy (so long as it's Daddy or Grandma looking after her).  I only feed her when she's going to sleep at night or for her naps, but even then, she's happy for Daddy to just rock her to sleep without it.  It's meant that I can be away from her for longer periods of time, to go hiking, or to the Temple (!!!!!!), or do stuff with just the boys.

She's taking 2 naps still, 1hr around 9.30am and 2hrs around 1pm.  She's still waking at least once in the night (no surprise there, both of her brothers did til after they were 1), but she quickly goes back to sleep once I feed her.  Still a tummy sleeper, and with her fat cheeks, it makes me wanna take a picture of her every time she's sleeping.

I feel like I could write forever about her.  I feel like I wanna capture every detail of her little life.  This girl just brings us, me, so much JOY.  

And I love her to pieces.