All right so this is a little late…we are really 8 months and 6 days…life is busy right now and suddenly keeping up on the blog is getting difficult!
I can’t believe we are already at 8 months…the first 4 months really crawled along but now time is going by so fast. Fiona is really working hard on getting ready to walk. She can pull herself up on everything and then hand-over-hand herself around. The other day she perfected the skill of being able to bend over and pick things off the ground while hanging on with one hand….a very difficult skill indeed…and so she stood there picking up her toy and dropping it and picking it up again over and over! She is finally starting to get the hang of being able to sit down from a standing position….this is also a very important skill because she gets herself stuck in all sorts of places standing and there’s no way out unless she can get down and crawl or “call” (read scream) for an adult to come and rescue her!
Last week while I was cleaning the kitchen and I had the dishwasher open and when i looked down she had managed to hoist herself up onto the door and was inside the dishwasher! oh my oh my.
We’re up to three meals a day and she loves to eat her cheerios and peas all by herself….although at least half of them land her lap and zoe has learned to love cheerios and peas as well!
Night time sleep seems to be getting better although i’m sure i just jinxed myself. she has been getting up only once or twice a night for the last couple of weeks and it’s a very welcome change! her nap schedule has also been all across the board…some days she’s right on schedule but others she takes just one really long nap and then either a really late cat nap or no more nap at all. I can’t believe she is already going to one nap a day but then she went to two naps a day a few month early so who knows?
All is good though…still no teeth…next doctors appointment is next month. Greg leaves for Asia again next week for two weeks…is home for a couple weeks and then leaves again for two more weeks. We looked at his travel schedule for the year and he is traveling about 4 months out of the year….. we knew that would be the case with this job but it still doesn’t make it any easier! I just hope he’s home for the big milestones!
I looked through Greg’s baby book just this morning and man! Fiona is the spitting image of him at this age….I’ll have to scan a photo in to show you…it will be interesting to see if that remains the case in the coming years!
Oh my Gosh could that kid get any cuter?
I haven’t counted the total amount of time Tom is gone every year… I don’t think I want to know. Last trip (one week) no one slept well. I think the kids missed Tom… let’s hope that everyone sleeps for the next trip (2 weeks… ugh). Good luck!