Josh, Ashlee and Elsie: Elsie is 8 Months Old!

I feel like I start each "month" post with the same thing...But as each month passes, I really can't believe how big Elsie is getting, how much I love her more and more each month, how lucky and blessed we are...the list continues! Elsie is the best baby! She gets more and more fun the older she gets :) These past couple of weeks, Elsie has started to move a lot more. She reaches for anything and everything in her sight, whether you are holding her or she is sitting or laying on the floor :) She still isn't crawling yet, and I don't know if she ever will. :) Every time we put her on her tummy, she immediately rolls to her back. If she can't reach a toy from sitting or from laying on her back...she doesn't need the toy. She will just entertain herself with her toes instead :) She does love to reach for our hands and pull herself from sitting to standing. It won't be long before she is pulling herself up to furniture. I love that Elsie is still immobile, becuse I know that once she starts getting herself around, she will never be back to the immobile stage :) I have no idea how much Elsie weighs, I am guessing around 20-22 pounds :) She is slowly weening herself off of the bottle. She would much rather eat food than have a bottle. Elsie hates baby food. She prefers table food. I give her whatever we are eating. So far, she has liked everything I have given her. She loves fruit, vegetables, pasta, bread, cheerios, pretty much everything :) I hope it stays this way and she isn't a picky eater like her daddy :) There aren't many things Elsie doesn't like. She hates getting dressed, being hungry, being bored (she has just recently started getting upset when we leave the room - she now prefers we sit right next to her while she plays with her toys), I really can't think of other things she doesn't like. She is such a happy, social (she LOVES to be out-and-about and to see everyones faces), fun baby girl :) Josh and I are the luckiest parents in the entire world!!! Thank you Amanda!!!!

Remember when she used to be smaller than this bear?

...and smile at the camera and not the tv?

...and not notice there was a piece of paper sitting by her?

No matter her size...I LOVE THIS SWEET BABY GIRL!!!

Elsie thinks she is such a big girl in her highchair :)

Don't worry...Elsie LOVES to watch tv :)

Her favorites now are: Baby Signing Time, Sesame Street/Elmo's World, The Price is Right, The View (she giggles every time Whoppi Goldberg is on the screen), any commercial with kids voices or music, pretty much, Elsie loves all tv! :)

Kind of makes me feel like a bad mom.

Elsie even has her own remote

She thinks she is such a big girl now that she can sit up on the couch all by herself and talk to the tv :)

Mom needs to turn the tv off when she has a photo shoot of Elsie :)

Such a smiley baby girl :)

I think Halloween is my mom's favorite holiday :)

"I hope I get lots of candy this year" :)

Shhhh...I haven't told Elsie that she is too little to go trick-or-treating this year :)

This is Elsie's new singing puppy, she loves the music it plays :)

Elsie LOVES music of all kinds!
Her favorite song for me to sing to her is "Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree" she giggles the whole way through it :)

What mom hasn't given a lemon to their child just to see their reaction (abuse, I know)