Sophie Turns 8 Months!

This little cutie turned 8 months this weekend!

 

Sophie's 8 Month Milestones include

• Ba Ba Ba Ba is her answer to everything.  Either that, or hmm.
• Blowing spit bubbles is her new favorite skill.  I think she loves the feeling of spit flying on her own face.
• She also likes to breathe in and out really fast through her nose sometimes when she's having lots of fun.  Nicholas will imitate it back to her, and they will go back and forth doing it until Sophie switches to Ba Ba Ba or spit bubbles.
• Her Jolly Jumper is still her best friend, but rather than her intense big jumps she used to have - she now uses the jumper to try and swing forward and touch the wall.  She also loves admiring her own shadow.
• She's 30 inches long, has 2 bottom teeth and one upper one piercing through.
• Sophie still sleeps through the night!  Last night she passed out at 10pm and didn't wake up until 10am. 
• She is starting to sit up on her own (for a few seconds at a time).
• She loves to roll around, and rolls like crazy on our bed (we barricade her a rolling area with pillows).  She has no desire to roll on the ground, and instead does baby crunches or just has tummy time push ups.
• Sophie tries to pick up toys with her feet, and can now detect her favorite objects that aren't so visible, and will move around until she can reach them.
• She wants to put anything and everything in her mouth.  And also grab mommy's nose & hair, and daddy's beard.
• One of her new fave activities is trying to grab and hold onto a balloon.
• Her new foods she's been introduced to, since turning 8 months include cottage cheese, cheddar cheese, and organic eggs.  The first time she had cottage cheese (mixed in with her pureed food), she made gagging sounds and I totally panicked.  Then I realized its normal that babies will make gagging sounds when swallowing new textures.  Her fave baby food mix is still organic quinoa, beets, sweet potato and cinnamon.  She also eats a mix of kale/peas/pears every day too.
• She loves her new babiator sunglasses, and surprisingly doesn't try to take them off.
• The outdoors is her ultimate happy place.

For her 8 month old fun, we headed over to Van Dusen Botanical Gardens so Sophie could check out some new plant textures and scents.

 Sophie and Daddy also had a tickle match going on.

 And neither one wanted to look at the camera.

 Sophie and I dancing away to Hey Jude, as the day was filled with many songs from the 50s and 60s.

 Sophie trying to grab as many leaves as she can.  And then eat them.

Hope everyone had an amazing weekend!

Weekending - Jamaican Stylez

Hello lovelies.  And Hello May long weekend!  This weekend definitely felt like a family weekend for us, filled with good vibes and sunny days. 

 

Sophie is clearly ecstatic for her first Jamaican party.  Clearly.  

Although its only May, it feels a lot like summer in Vancity - and with the summer heat, comes the party invitations.  I've actually been pretty reluctant to bring Sophie to a party - but given that we are first time parents, we are bound to have those Are we ready for this? kinda moments.  My biggest concern when it comes to parties, is that Sophie could be exposed to smoke and drunken idiots falling over her.  Nick & I are non smokers, and none of our friends smoke.  And none are drunken idiots either - but that doesn't mean that there wont be any at a party.  However, we put our fears on hold and decided to seize the moment and bring Sophie to her first party - a Jamaican BBQ bash. 

 

This turned out to be an AMAZING day.  One of my besties, Meric just bought a new house - so it was kinda like a house warming party.  Merics place is always good vibes, so if we were gonna bring Sophie around a party, we might as well embrace half her heritage and show her what a Jamaican bash is like - but the family style one.  The kind that's filled with families, dominoes, DJs competing over a dancehall vs lovers mix up, and of course - Jamaican comfort food.  Oh - and no one was smoking! Holla.
 



I'm having so much fun I'll just eat my fingers now.

 

The rest of the weekend was filled with Costco hauls, baby stuff, and watching Fury.  As new parents who never go out to the movies - we kinda get excited when Shaw On Demand or Netflix releases new movies we really wanna see - and since Nick obsesses over anything Military - he couldn't wait to see this.

 

We ended our long weekend with some quality family time at one of our local parks.  I'm pretty sure I told Nick on our first date how much I looovvveee long walks on the beach.  Clearly, he paid attention - as our family is all about those long walks on the water.  Now time to watch the Bachelorette - and yes I'm team Kaitlyn.  Go Vancity!