8 months old

Show-y turned 8 months old on Christmas Eve, the 24th.

How in the world can my baby girl be 8 months old? I feel like I keep saying this and thinking this with all three of our lovely ladies as they continue to grow right before our eyes. It's crazy how quickly time flies! My hope is that we're shaping incredible memories for the three of them, just as we have for ourselves of them growing up with us.

Abrie has become a little parakeet this past week. She says "Momma" so distinctly!!! I am beyond excited, as "Da Da" was always first with both Madison and Faith. I was chump change in their vocabularies. But, my Beeba girl is my little buddy. She adores her Momma, as I adore her! Of course, Daddy is her best friend and she just loves him. He makes her smile quicker than anybody I have ever seen. But, I still love that she calls for me all the time. It's precious! And, she also says something that sounds like "dob dob dob dub dub dub" all day long. Maddie and Faith love this.

She's nursing 3x a day, but a lot of the times only twice a day. She's loving all the Gerber snacks, and still trying to make heads out of her sippie cup. Some days she has it figured out, and other days she can't get it. She's climbing a few stairs at a time, standing up on everything, and cruising everywhere- and has been for 2 weeks or so.

I love my girl!

High chair and low mattress

Abrie FINALLY has a high chair of her own!!

It's ridiculous how long it has taken us to get a new one for her. I threw ours away when we were leaving the apartment because I figured we would just wait until she was sitting upright and then get her a new one-- since ours was so crusty anyway. Bad idea. I've been putting it off and putting it off, but the poor baby needed her own high chair. I'd been so stubborn about finding one for dirt cheap or even for free off of craigslist or at our consignment shop, but to no avail. We finally decided to get the cheapest one at Target, and we really like it. Not to mention, Abrie LOVES it and she looks so darn adorable in it! She loves eating her 'appeteasers' (her fruit and veggie puffs, and her new thing-- the little crunchers that Faith always found irresistible.. Abrie does too!). I had to do a double take tonight while getting dinner ready because it just seems surreal to me to see my little baby in her high chair.

We also took her crib mattress down this afternoon. The little girl is standing up in her crib (and on everything else) now, and it worries me to think that she could do a flip out and over the side of the crib. I ended up moving the crib altogether too to the other side of her room, because it was right by an electrical socket in its original spot. And, with the mattress down at the level of the socket, I knew this would be too much of an appeal to our little Breeze. The girl is quite interested in sockets... and everything else that she shouldn't be into these days!!!

Our baby will officially be a BIG cousin already by tonight or tomorrow. Her little cousin, Molly, is scheduled to be here very soon. AND, Abrie's going to be a big cousin for the 2nd time in just a few more months too. 'Tiny Guy' is scheduled to be born right around her first birthday!! I can't believe that my baby girl is already a big girl cousin.

Show-y

New Show-y things:

Dan and I laugh at how much this girl eats. It's baffling to us as to where both she and big sis, Faith put all of their food. Abrie is just as petite (well, a little longer height-wise) as her Beebster sister, and yet she has the appetite of a horse. She's still nursing three times a day-- morning, afternoon, and night but she wants to eat everything and anything. She is 50/50 about her Gerber jars-- some days she doesn't mind them, and other days she could do without them. But, if we give her a little bite of meatloaf, meatballs, sandwich, yogurt, etc etc etc.. boy, is she in heaven! The girl can "chew" too just like her older sisters. She still doesn't even have a nubbin of a tooth, and yet gums everything like a champ just like my other two late-teethers. I need to get her one of those mesh suckers to put whole fruits and stuff in because I think she would just go to town with that!

Boy, is she Momma and Daddy crazed. She's in the stage where she does NOT.NOT.NOT want to be separated from us. She crawls to us constantly, and wants to be with us at all times. She just loves Dan. It's precious. And, she just loves her Momma!

She's crawling around like crazy. She loves to crawl towards the Christmas tree and sit there and bat at it. She also is wanting to pull herself up to toys and in her crib.

She puts out her little arms for us to pick her up which is priceless. And, she "waves" to us all the time when we tell her to say 'Hi!' Not to mention, the girl is constantly smiling when she's with us. Of course, the second she is around someone she doesn't know she becomes leery Abrielle. She just loves her family!