Parker - 8 Months Old

Parker is 8 months old today!  We've had a big month with some major milestones accomplished.  She now has two teeth and can crawl.  The first tooth popped through the same weekend that she started to crawl...wonderfully timed for Grandma's visit from St. Louis.  Parker's crawling is still pretty limited, used to get to the closet toy.  She has yet to really take off and cover a lot of ground at one time.  She straightens her legs a lot into this tripod position:

Parker still claps often and will do the So Big on occasion.  Her newest trick is giving a high five and she is starting to work on waving bye-bye.  It is tough to get these actions on video because she is not very consistant yet...but we'll work on it.

The girl loves to eat and will eat anything we have her try now.  Her teachers at school comment on it often and what a joy she is to feed every day.  Parker's self-feeding skills have improved; the pincher grip is coming along.

New foods she has tried include:  egg, cheese, whole wheat bread, whole wheat pasta, nectarines, blueberries, beans, turkey, and cheerios.  She loves her regular breakfast of whole milk yogurt mixed with fruit.  Some of her regular and favorite lunch veggies are sweet potatoes and peas.  I am still making most of her meals with fruits & veggies; basically doing the same process of steaming but then leaving it a very chunky puree.  This allows me to make ahead and freeze but still leaves some texture.

Parker's teachers also always rave at how good she is at playing on her own.  Just today she was perfectly occupied on the kitchen floor playing with a whisk, spoon, and a bowl.

 Here's her 8 month photo shoot, not very many good shots this time:

Parker in another hand-me-down from my childhood, Go Tigers!

And finally a few videos: