Clara 8 Months

Clara is on the move! She started crawling and pulling up while we were at the beach. She still only has 2 teeth but is now 20lbs 2 oz and 26 inches long (I weighed her at our house and then at the doctor so that's why the weight is different in the picture). She LOVES music and dances whenever she hears it. She is very vocal, especially when it comes to food. She belly laughs at Lily and becomes part helicopter when she gets excited.

THIS MONTH

 Clara loves:
-music 

-pulling up on everything

-chewing

-plastic water bottles
-crawling
 

  

Clara Hates:

-waiting for food. Seriously if takes more than 5 seconds for food to be put in her mouth she lets out this ear-splitting, shriek that is probably going to cause me to need hearing aids in the next 6 months. 

Our big trip summer trip this year came in the middle of August. We packed up the car and drove the 8 hours from Knoxville to Wilmington, NC for a week at the beach. Clara did great in the car despite a hour long delay when a tractor trailer overturned. We drove to Raleigh and spent the night with a girl that used to baby sit my family when we lived in PA. Clara had a great time playing with their sons (and all of their toys).

 I put Clara in the bouncer to see if she would like it....Lily decided

to make it a thrill ride and we promptly removed Clara

 Sharing toys....and personal space.

 

The next day we got back in the car and drove to the beach. Because of Clara's nap schedule (morning and afternoon) she only went down to the beach 3 times while we were there. Of those 3 beach visits she spent approximately 85% of her time trying to eat fistfuls of sand and the other 15% of the time LOVING the water. She did get to play in a blow up pool on the porch of our house and go to the club playground right next door.

 hanging out with her godmother

 Nana, Pop and their granddaughters

 a trip to the beach

 

 conversations with a cousin (I can't tell if it's Hazel or Bea)

Clara's other big adventure this month was that she had tubes put in her ears after months of ear infections (not that you could tell....happy is pretty much her default setting). Clara did great before, during and after the surgery and since has become a lot more vocal.

 playing/ waiting to be called back

She did great. I know I would not be

happy going that long before eating

 

Clara is still enjoying bath time. Mommy doesn't enjoy bath time as much because Clara poops in the tub at least once per week (usually when daddy is working late/ working nights).

 

 

 

She also loves to play with/ crawl over/ drool on CJ.

maybe it's like doggy/ baby yoga or something?

Here are some other pictures from this month:

 we fall asleep a lot during dinner

 a baby's life is so hard

 

 carrot mustache