Happy 8-Month Birthday!!

Our beautiful ADubXX is 8 months old today.  I have had a couple overwhelming moments lately where my perfectionist personality cannot handle being a parent.  Half the time I feel like I am robotically going through my day-to-day motions because there are so many things to do that I just hit auto-pilot (wash bottles, prep breakfasts, feed dogs, etc.).  However, little miss ADubXX (and her brother) break me out of this and remind me daily that this parenting thing is completely, totally, utterly worth every single stinkin' moment.  I wouldn't change it for the world.  Happy Birthday, sweet pea!

Accomplishments this month:

• This girl loves to dance, sing, and clap.  Her favorite class at school is music class where she shows all of her fellow classmates up with the the rattles.  She can play a mean rattle!
• ADubXX has started eating even more solid foods.  As a matter of fact, her brother has even been impressed for her ability to pick up a Cheerio, transfer it to her mouth, and successfully eat it.  Now that is talent.
• She sleeps through the night even more and more...as in, we might be into a serious pattern of allowing mom to sleep every night.  Although mom isn't quite sure what to do with so much sleep.
• Her favorite thing in the whole wide world is to stand.  She can be in the fussiest mood, and you just have to stand her up for a complete mood change.
• ADubXX has started to use her sign language.  "Finished" can be so dramatic that it can actually knock the spoon right out of your hand throwing food across the room.  (Thank goodness for pups).
• Unlike our first baby, ADubXX loves to sit in her high chair when eating out.  Her brother could only be in it for all of 2 seconds before he needed to be up and moving around.  Now I am not sure what to do with all of this time while eating.  As in, do we need to rush through our meal?  Can we just sit there after we are finished?  So different.

And now for the photographic (or not so photographic) moments:

Clearly it was Wednesday, and we have to wear pink on Wednesday's.

Ring around the rosie.

Playing with some buddies.  Don't ask why brother is just in his undies.

Hangin out at a brewery...

....and taking silly pics.  We try to match as often as possible.

Brother was so excited for this exact moment.  When baby sister got to sit in the second cart seat at Costco.

My kiddos.

So maybe not the best pic of ADubXX but I had to document the usage of our double stroller.

Do you think he could hold one more child?

Play time!

Riding her very first unicorn.

She loves her nightly baths.

They matched.

They matched again.  (Dinosaur...nom nom)

Enjoying a little girl time while brother and daddy were away.

Photo shoot in the dress that mommy wore 32 years ago.

Those. Blue. Eyes.

Honey, you have something on your face.  But you are oh so adorable.

Can we fit anymore into this chair?

Cheese.

My little adventures.