month eight

Party tricks:

-crawling faster than we can catch her

-pulling herself up on everyone and everything

-walking between pieces of furniture

-sticking her fingers up mama's nose

-pulling everyone's hair

-shrieking with laughter

-laugh-coughing (we call it 'quacking')

-feeding herself crackers, Cheerios, puffs, and pieces of fruit

-acting like a ham to every stranger we meet

-making our play date friends cry

-picking the child-proof locks

-trying to break out of her car seat

-demolishing her crib bumpers

-throwing raging temper tantrums when we take away something she wants

-climbing up the stairs

-sucking on the base moulding

-launching her pacifier across the room

-sleeping through the night

-screaming while taking a bath, just to hear her own echo

-taking advantage of her uncles

-screaming for licks of ice cream

-stealing food from our plates

-banging on mama's pots and pans

-getting into everything she shouldn't

-playing peek-a-boo

-waking up daddy by climbing on him and pulling his hair

-babbling with her fist

-stealing her daddy's heart

-holding mama's hair while she is being rocked to sleep

See months seven, six, five, four, three, two, and one.