Eight Months Old

Penny turned eight months old on Saturday. In celebration, we decided to let her try some Cheerios at lunch. It took her about 20 minutes to finally manage to get one in her mouth, whereupon she choked on it. So, we plan to try again at 9 months. :) Nonetheless, she did seem to enjoy herself:




Here is a video showing Penny "walking" with the aid of Daddy's hands. She looks like a drunken sailor in this video because she was trying to watch me with the camera at the same time, but she's actually getting pretty good at it when no cameras are around. I don't think she is anywhere near walking on her own, but she has fun "practicing" like this.
Also, her clothes are kind of comically big, but we were trying to get some mileage out of some long sleeved stuff before it got too warm to wear it.



In other development news, the last two weeks or so she's been actually falling asleep in her carseat when we go places (provided it is time for her nap). I am so glad, because it was very difficult to have to rush home from places in order for her to take a nap since she wouldn't sleep in the car - or else we had to stay places longer than we would like in order for her to nap there. Plus, it always made me feel awkward around people because there were instances where I would say we had to leave in order to get her home to take a nap and all the other moms would be like, "Why? - just let her sleep on the way home" and I'd be all, "She won't", but I could tell they never believed me - like I was just making up some excuse to leave early. Or that if I just drove around long enough she'd eventually fall asleep. Nope - she wouldn't. I swear. Been there. Tried that. Many times. She did fall asleep one time on the way to Georgia and slept exactly 26 minutes and then woke up and was awake for the rest of the trip. Oh, and once on the way home from Thanksgiving she did eventually pass out from the sheer exhaustion of screaming her head off for two hours. But, anyway, we've had three trips to run errands now where she fell asleep on the way home. It may seem like a small thing, but it opens up a whole world to me because now I can go places and count on her to sleep in the car. That is just awesome.