8 months old

January 15, 2010 Riley turned 8 months old! She has been a very busy little girl. Riley has learned to crawl regular now. She no longer "army crawls".She has also learned how to pull herself up on her lion walker and has learned how to walk behind it without falling down. She also loves her walker that she sits in. Riley defiantly wants to mobile all the time. She doesn't really sit still anymore. Where ever we are she wants to be too. I have found her a couple of times in the bathroom shredding the toilet paper into tiny little pieces! She pulls herself up on everything. We defiantly have to keep our eye on her. She has really wanted to play with the cat lately too. Too bad that Mesha doesn't feel the same way. Hopefully when Riley is a little older Mesha will like her and want to be around Riley.

Riley has tried her first cheerios and doesn't seem to like them very much. She also has been given pancakes with syrup and she doesn't like those either! I'm thinking that we will try some bananas to see what she thinks of those. She is still trying her sippy cup. She still doesn't have it down that she need to suck on it, instead she chews on it and then gives one suck and then she is done. We have given her apple juice and recently she has had some orange juice.

Riley really loves her bath time too! Just the other day she decided that she wants to stand in the tub. So now its a constant up and down with her while we try to bath her. She loves to play with Samuel when I watch him. She loved to go over to him and touch him so I really have to keep my eye on her or she will just run him over. I cant wait until he gets mobile and they both can play together without worries.

She is still getting 4 bottle @ 8oz each a day. She is also eating 2 jars a day. She is taking 3 naps a day which are 1 hour long each. She has been going down for the night around 9:30-10 and waking at 8am. She weighs 19.5 pounds and is 28 inches long