8 months old today
Posted By pamelamyers on May 23, 2010
Little Samantha is 8 months old today! She is not so little anymore, though. Truthfully, she is getting so big I can’t believe it. Yesterday, we took Sam out into Media to have lunch and walk up and down State Street to do some window shopping. We used her Bob stroller which we usually do when walking on sidewalks since it’s so much of a smoother ride. It wasn’t that long ago that we removed the bar that was necessary to mount her car seat in the stroller so that she could just sit in the stroller seat. We had posted some pics of her in it, I think. At the time, we said she looked so small because her little legs were so short that they stuck out straight; she couldn’t bend them where the seat ends. On Saturday, we were pushing her around and I noticed her legs were bent at the knees and hanging over the edge of the seat. She has grown so much in only about a month that she can fully sit now in the stroller. It is so crazy.
Also, this weekend we took the car seat bases out of our cars and put in the new convertible car seats we bought. Sam now has a “big girl” seat, as we told her. She is still rear facing, as she has to be until she’s a year old, but she looks so much more comfy in the seat. It has so much room! She really seemed to like it. We tried her out in it just sitting in our family room in the seat and she was just totally chilling out like she was in a lounge chair!
She is really getting ready to crawl now. She spends a tremendous amount of time on her hands and knees but she can’t quite get the concept of moving yet. The funniest thing today was that she was trying so hard to crawl, and she managed to move about an inch or two…but she went backwards. Oh well. At least it’s movement!
Her new thing too is that she likes to practice walking. If you hold her up lightly under her arms, just enough that she doesn’t fall, she will actually move one foot after the other and “walk” towards you. If she was strong enough to hold her balance on her feet, I swear she’d be walking and not crawling. Today she was on my lap and she turned onto her belly, which she ALWAYS does now (she is such a wiggle worm). Her belly was on my legs. She wanted so badly to get to the Target ad next to me (smart girl!) that by wiggling, and moving from her knees to her feet, she managed to work her way across my body so that she reached the ad and her legs, and not her belly, were across my legs. She wants to move so badly that I am sure she will master it soon.
Our poor bunny has a bit of a cold right now (she is coughing a lot, and sneezing), but she was a happy little baby all weekend. She took her naps and smiled and giggled like crazy. That’s our girl, the happiest baby I have ever seen.
Happy 8 month birthday, Samantha! We love you! And we can’t wait to see what you do next!
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