The One with Jane at 8 Months

Another month has come and gone making Jane 8 months new today! 

Here are her done-at-home stats:

Length: 28" (75-90%) 

 Weight: 19 pounds 2 ounces (50-75%) 

 Head circumference: 18" (90-95%)

Her head has gotten big apparently, haha. In the Taylor family we say, "It houses her superior brain you insipid peon!" :)

Some pics of her 8 month photoshoot:

She naps mostly in her crib now, which Chris misses because he loved "daddy/daughter naps", so he'll take baby Jane snuggles any time he can - even in the middle of Sunday School.

People comment about her blue eyes all the time. My eyes are definitely not blue. Chris's are hazel. So she must have gotten them from her Great-Grandma Doris and her Nana Evans.

This girl is so affectionate and sweet. She loves grabbing our faces and snuggling into our arms and chest and it's just so adorable.

A few passport photo outtakes. This girl has so many cute smiles and faces. I just want to eat her. But not really.

Jane is so fun to take pictures of. I could take a hundred a day. Sometimes I do!

She is very inquisitive and always looking at people and things, taking in the world around her.

She's so interested in everything and reaches and grabs for anything.

I'm slowly trying to wean her off nursing and get her to take a formula bottle. It's been successful so far and I'm hoping to fully wean her by the end of May so Chris and I can go on our very first vacation with no kids. We've never left Fox or Jane overnight(!!!). We're going to celebrate our 6th anniversary, my golden 28th birthday (I'm turning 28 on the 28th of May), graduating from dental school, and moving across the world, all rolled into one getaway to Canada. I'd say we deserve a little solo time, no?

Still no teeth. Where are they? Fox got his first two bottom teeth when he was 8 months old, so she'll probably get them any day. In any case, EVERYTHING goes straight into her mouth.
Jane would eat all day long if we let her. She prefers feeding herself, but since she doesn't have teeth, there are only so many things we can feed her without fear of her choking. But man she just eats and eats and eats and eats. Bottomless pit!

Jane refuses to use her legs to "stand" so we've been putting her in the bouncer a few times a day. She's getting the hang of the idea - use your legs to bounce and it's fun! Note to self: get this on video.

I haven't been worried about her physical development, until this month, because she still hadn't rolled from back to front, EVER. Why would she want to when she hates tummy time? BUT as I was taking her 8 month pictures just this morning she totally did it! And then when we came inside I tried getting her to roll over again and she did! Again and again and again! She's a rolling machine as of a couple hours ago! FINALLY! Next big step, or rather, milestone: crawling!

99% of the time she's a happy-go-lucky baby. But when she does cry, Fox cries too. This is a new thing and I guess he's just trying to fight for my attention. Heaven help me when this happens:

I don't even want to talk about how she sleeps. If anything, it's gotten worse. Her naps during the day are a bit better, she's sleeping in her crib rather than someone's arms. But man. What is sleep? I don't even remember...
Her daily routine at 8 months is as follows:

6:30am - wake up and eat breakfast of some sort of mashed fruit and finger foods
 8:30 - 9:30 to 10am - nap in her crib (the quieter it is, the longer she sleeps, but she's usually woken up by a screaming Fox or barking dog or loud motorcycle passing by. Nothing we can do about that.)
10am - play!
12pm - lunch of some mashed veggie or fruit and finger foods
1pm - 2 to 2:30 - nap. For this nap we put her on our bed because Fox takes a nap in his crib at 1pm and one thing we've learned is they can't sleep in the same room together.
 2:30pm - play
5pm - dinner of mashed something and finger foods
6:30pm - bedtime routine: bath, fall asleep in my arms drinking a formula bottle..
7:00pm - asleep for the night in her crib 
8pm - she wakes up because we bring Fox into the room so we put her on our bed.
9pm - she wakes up. We console her back to sleep
10pm - she wakes up. We console her back to sleep and go to sleep ourselves.
1am - she wakes up and I nurse her back to sleep
3am - she wakes up and I nurse her back to sleep
5am - she wakes up and I nurse her back to sleep
6:30am - repeat
Sigh. We'll get there. Some day. In the meantime, I think I'm done having kids. For reals. I can't do this again!

We love you sweetest, prettiest, cutest girl in the whole wide world!