Eight months!

This week Maren turned eight months old. I can't believe how quickly time is going by. In three months, I will be headed back to work. Here is a snapshot of Maren at eight months:

She has really started to get into eating food. She eats everything we give her, though not every time we give it to her. One of her favorites is yogurt, but she is very ambivalent about spoons, so this sometimes makes for very messy times :-) She is sitting up and rolling around and sort of climbing all over, but hasn't started crawling yet, so we are still able to be fairly confident that she will stay more or less within certain boundaries. We have a baby gate installed at the top of the stairs, and are ready to baby proof things when necessary, but so far we haven't had to.

She is busy busy busy all the time, and loves to jump with a little help. When she isn't jumping, she is often babbling, screeching, or shaking a little shaker that is currently her favorite toy. In general, she is full of energy and full of joy.

Here is a video taken the other day in the morning not too long after we got up. What you don't see is Jeff dancing around in his pajamas, so you will have to imagine it: