8 Months!

Juliet is 8 months old!

 She is learning new things everyday. Literally. Within three days she pulled to stand, officially started crawling, and started clapping. 

Juliet clapping from Heather Vataha on Vimeo.

Juliet pulling to stand from Heather Vataha on Vimeo.

Juliet crawling from Heather Vataha on Vimeo.

We can now get little giggles if we try REALLY hard...she doesn't give them up easily. She is about 20 pounds, consistently sleeping through the night 7-7, and napping 2 times a day from 9-11 and then 2-4 or 5. She wears 9-12 month clothes, size 3 diapers and size 3 shoes. She is nursing 2 times a day and getting 2 formula bottles, and eating three meals a day. Thanks to second child syndrome she already eats almost everything that Laila eats. She's had eggs, peanut butter, macaroni and cheese, pb&j, pizza, etc. Thankfully no allergies so far. She has her 2 bottom teeth, still has very blue eyes, and her hair is getting lighter every day. She babbles and squeals quite a bit. Before writing this, I went back to Laila's 8 month post and found everything Juliet is doing to be almost exactly the same as what Laila was doing at that age. She loves watching her big sister and trying to play with her. Laila is very patient and loving with her, for the most part.  She continues to be the happiest baby and is ALWAYS smiling. It's not very hard to get a smiling picture of her :)

She also got her first haircut this month because her hair was a disaster.

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