8 Months

Lyvi is 8 months old today, I really can't believe it! She is getting just so cute! I love this picture of her above, she has the cutest face. Lyvi is up to 15.8 pounds, this is such an improvement. Lyvi has always been on the smaller side. She was in the 10th percentile at her six month visit, but when I took her in for another visit she had dropped down to the 2nd percentile and lost a pound. She is a huge eater she has progressed very quickly. Lyvi loves real food and is at the point that she is eating everything from the table, woohoo no more baby food. Thursday she had chicken pot pie, pears, and stuffing mix with us. Her dexterity has really improved and she can pick up food off her tray or out of my fingers with her thumb and pointer finger. She loves to eat what we are eating, she loves banana muffins and green beans (real ones not baby food from a jar). So she has a very healthy appetite, but she has had problems keeping it down. I took her in two weeks ago, I was just so sick of all the vomiting. He said she had reflux which is something we already knew but hoped she would grow out of. He put her on some zantac and reglan and the first three days we didn't have any vomiting it was so nice! Since then we have had to increase her dosages but it seems to be working since she has put on almost two pounds! She is starting to look so chunky I love it.

She is also talking up a storm. She waves and says hi. She says "more", "baba" for bottle, "dada", and finally "mama". She also signs drink and food. She is just so stinkin cute and loves her family. Her separation anxiety has gotten really bad, she cries when I leave the room. She still loves to be in her walker and is getting into stuff. She grabbed my vase and threw it on the floor one day, it didn't break. She will also watch us over her shoulder and when we aren't looking she goes for my plant, she likes to eat it. We have had to fashion a blockade so she can't get to it. Now that she isn't vomiting when she leans over she loves to be on the floor now and is starting to think about crawling, I give her a couple of weeks. She is the best sleeper, she takes a 3 1/2 to 4 hour nap during the day and sleeps 11-13 hours at night! I think she is getting her top teeth although she acts like she is getting molars the way she chews on everything. I can't believe she is already eight months old, she is growing up fast. We love her so much!!!

Check out her cute teeth below.