8 Months

Natalie turned 8 months old yesterday!  We're already two thirds of the way through her first year.  Amazing, isn't it?  This past month has been full!  We flew to Texas to visit family, Natalie has perfected crawling, and has just now started to pull up to standing.

Thanks to her increased mobility, it was very difficult to get a good picture of her this month!  She did not want to lay still on her back and smile at the camera.  haha!  It will be a challenge to get these pictures for the next 4 months.  

I feel like several big changes happened all at once yesterday.  Since Natalie is pulling herself up to a standing position, we had to move her crib mattress to the bottom slot.  Since the mattress is so low now, the crib skirt will no longer show and has been folded up and put into the closet.  I suppose that's not really several changes, so much as one really big change in the look of her room.  She's growing up too fast.  She's starting to chew on the edge of her crib, too, so I'm in the process of making a crib teething guard to protect the wood.  More on that in a later post.

Here are a few more pictures from yesterday.

Sticking her tongue out.  :)  She does this all the time.

* Please forgive any focusing issues in the above pictures.  :-/ *