8 months

Our little girl is now 8 months old.. I know I probably say this every blog, but she's getting so BIG so fast and growing so fast.. Can't believe it's been 8 months already.. The last month has been kind of crazy (aren't they all crazy? lol) and I didn't even post the blog I had written so I can going to post it when I post this blog. Last month started off with Elycia getting the Flu as I mentioned in the last blog it was a long couple of weeks as she got better.. Then Gil got it one night I had to make a 2 or 3 o clock trip to the store for some things for him.. I am just glad I didn't get it too.. We hope everyone had a GREAT Thanksgiving. We went to my Sister Chelsea's house and had lunch with her, Luke and Luke's family.. We had to leave early cuz I had to work Thanksgiving Night at Kohls which was pretty crazy.. But we had a good time spending it with them.. Elycia had a bad night while we were there.. We think she just wasn't sure where she was and she feel asleep ok, but woke up a couple hours later and screamed for an hour on and off.. finally we just laid her on the air mattress with us and she cried a little rolled over and laid her head on my chest and then went right to sleep...It was a rough start to Thanksgiving. ;-) Over the past month she's learned how to actually crawl the right way except when she Army crawls cuz she can get places faster, but now she's doing better at the crawing.. She's learned to pull herself up on things, I've seen her try to walk along the side of things as she stands, She learned how to put her paci in her mouth and sometimes puts it in sideways, upside down or right side up too. We've been giving her fruits just like last month but now we are taking it slower and introducing her to fruits one at a time to make sure she doesn't have an allergic reaction and if she does we'd be able to pinpoint the cause faster.. So we gave her pears while she was sick and she liked them, tried bananas and she likes those too, so sticking with those for a while.. She's on 7 ounces of milk, which is either a hit or a miss sometimes, she might only drinks 6 and then sometimes she drinks the whole 7.. We've been trying to give her fruits in the morning and veggies at lunch and dinner.. We moved her bed down all the way since she's standing up in her bed.. We took her to see Santa and she wasn't a big fan of him, not even when we sat there with him.. Ha.. She's a big fan of growling at people or things it's so funny, she's got her 2 bottom teeth in and she started getting her first top tooth now she's getting them both in.. she's reaching more for us when we put our hands down.. Loves looking in the mirror, she is better at holding her bottles and holds them one handed sometimes.. She tried graham crackers and cheerios for the first time and she seemed to like those.. She loves Mickey Mouse all you have to do is show her a picture of him and she gets all excited.. She also loves the Christmas tree, she loves grabbing it and pulling stuff off of it.. She still loves bath time and has learned how to splash in the water and loves it.. She opens things with her teeth like her wipes container and her puffs container. We took her to a Christmas Tree farm with my Aunt, Uncle and their 2 boys.. She wasn't so sure about it at first she was all snuggled up to Gil and then I started talking to her and we were able to get her to turn around and look and then she got all excited and started talking, screaming, and just loving being outside.. Yesterday I was laying on the floor and Gil was sitting near me and Elycia came over to me and used me to help her stand next thing we know she's still a little wobbly and she's standing up by herself as she wobbles Ha.. for like 5 seconds she was doing it.. I'm a Proud Momma! Gil finished his semester of School, now he's done until it starts up again after the new year.. We are heading to Wisconsin tomorrow night to spend sometime there for Christmas (SO Excited!).. We will be driving tomorrow night to North Platte NE and staying the night then we will leave Thursday to drive to Lacrosse to stay the night at Gil's friends place and then head to the Dells Friday afternoon to meet up with my family.. It will be fun.. Please keep us in your prayers for traveling it will be Elycia's first LONG road trip too, so hopefully she will do well.. We hope you all have a Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We are still working on Christmas cards, yes I know its almost Christmas, I'm pretty sure it sneaked up on me this year.. Ha..