Clara - 8 Months

Clara turned 8 months on the 6th. (We are a little late getting this out because it seems we block out everything except Olympics these days)  It is hard to believe Clara is 8 months, time has flown by.  It does not seem like she is that old.  I keep thinking that she is doing new things really early but then I realize that she is older than I am thinking she is.  She is growing up fast.  She crawls everywhere and pulls up to standing on everything.  She is also taking some steps while holding on to things. And she is in to everything.  We have had to put the baby gates back up (to Esther's dismay).  She is happy most of the time and a lot of fun. She makes the best faces and smiles constantly.  She is definitely more emotional than Esther was.  She gets hurt more often and gets her feelings hurt more easily.  She is a great sleeper, she sleeps 10 hours at night without waking up and hardly ever cries when we put her down for a nap or for bedtime. She is eating more baby foods and starting to feed herself some little puffs and yogurt bites.

Here is a video of Clara from this morning.  This is her first thing in the morning, right after waking up.  She is displaying some of her funny faces and her all around happiness.  This is how she is almost every morning when you go in to get her.