Eight Months Old!

Hangin out in the afternoon, originally uploaded by Evelyn Lang.

On August 7, 2009 the girls turn 8 months old. We are still running on adjusted time, so that means we are the size and shape of 6 month olds. So what’s new now? Well, we have bouncing and laughing and loud little voices as you can see from the video.

Mom has returned to work part time for the summer, so we all spend our Tuesdays and Thursdays hanging out like this at home while the other days are spent at daycare. The first week of this arrangement was rather sucky for both mom and babies. But we have, as always, adapted to the change and it’s all routine now. At least until the end of August and then we switch to a new daycare and then mom goes back to work full time! Yikes. I’m sure that will also come with a sucky week, but we’ll get through it.

The girls are eating solid foods — oatmeal and stage 1 baby food jars of fruits and veggies. Jilly most definitely has inherited her Bammies’ sweet tooth and prefers sweeter items, so I have to trick her into eating oatmeal and any green vegetable by mixing in something sweet like bananas or sweet potatoes! Amanda will eat ANYTHING I give her, atta girl. We are giving sippy cups a go, but we still have to work out some kinks. They totally understand the concept: grasp cup, bring to mouth, suck on nozzle. It’s the whole tilt the cup upwards to send the liquid downwards toward the mouth thing that has us perplexed at the moment. And who can blame them, that is quite advanced if you ask me. So for now we will practice practice and practice some more. We have lots of bibs.

The girls have been sleeping through the night quite successfully for many months now, which has gained mom and dad a considerable amount of energy for daytime activities, not to mention sanity. Now we just have to work on some way to sleep more on weekends. I can understand getting up with the rooster crow at 5:30am on week days, but it would be nice to sleep in on Saturdays or Sundays once in a while. Sigh.

All in all, things are going great, life is good and it’s still summer time! Can’t beat that.