Eight Months Tomorrow

On the cusp of Iris's eight month birthday, she is doing great. She has figured crawling out (I'll try to get a video up), but hasn't truly grasped the significance of her new skills yet. She will still only crawl a few paces and then sits down to play with her toys. She shuns many of her formerly beloved toys, which are apparently, boring, in favor of keys, measuring cups, tupper ware tops, pens (with caps on, of course) and anything electronic she can get at . . .

She can pull herself up to kneeling, which she enjoys doing a lot. Just this morning she pulled herself up on her knees at the coffee table in order to grab a piece of paper. Unfortunately, in the process of transferring the lovely paper from her right hand to her left hand, she let go with both hands, bonking her head on the table. A sign of times to come . . .

She is eating solids a few times a day now. Favorites are prunes and pears. Fresh local zucchini went over well as well. Yellow squash has been unpopular.

Some photos and videos below.

A few from our photo shoot in the yard this afternoon:

From this morning: Iris practising her yoga (in other words, pulling herself up on the dresser):

The Eckelmen Brouhards came for a visit over Labor Day weekend - yay! Here Karen and Iris read a book:

Lovely measuring cup, how I love you:

This one is from the BabyFest weekend. Iris pulled this Dutch wooden shoe off the shelf in Peter and Audrey's house to play with:

Another one from the BabyFest. Iris noms some Olive Garden bread, with celery as back-up in her other hand. Yum!