8 months old!

Emma is 8 months old, and every day is a new discovery. Her little personality is really developing and she makes me laugh all the time. She can't get enough of people - any people, really. We go to the store and she just smiles and laughs at people and loves playing 'peek-a-boo' with any willing participant. Her laugh is funny too, it's kind of a chuckle. She cracks herself up and chuckles with this infectious, deep, gutteral "huh huh huh huh". Other times, it's a big gasp of air and then a long, hard, belly laugh. No doubt about it, this chick has a great sense of humor.

She's also beginning to show her recongnition of things: the Goodnight Moon book we read every night before going to bed - she loves to scratch the pages while we rock. The sound of her baby food being prepared, and the clanking of the spoon. She also hears Parker's nails on the floor as he enters her room, and she starts to look for him. The MINUTE we walk into the bathroom after dinner for bath time the arms start flailing and she starts looking for the rubber ducky faucet cover, whose beak she loves to chew on. She loves life, and life loves her.

Anyhoo, in honor of her latest birthday, we decided to bust out a few new 'toys'. It seems that just about every month or so, some poor toy from last month (so passe) gets rotated out of play and the new one gets rotated in. This month, we have a handy-dandy shopping cart cover (that makes shopping at Target that much easier....not that I need the help, frankly), the Leap Frog activity table, and the big rubber ducky bath tub! Ahhh. What a great life for this little popsicle.

Oh yeah, and she now has three teeth - all on the bottom. Silly Snaggletooth.





This last picture is kinda goofy, but it shows her hands as I know them: in constant state of motion! :)