8 months

Ella Jo Odom, you are the light of all of our worlds! You forget how exhausting but happy a baby makes the world. 

At 8 months, YOU:

Weigh 19lbs 4oz 

Wear 12 month footie pajamas and size 3 diapers

Roll your little wrists and hands around and around when you want something.

Say the sounds that mimic "momma, momma or mmmmmm,dada, and ba,ba"

Still wake up around 3a or 4a and we try to let you cry it out. The earliest mommy will get up is 4am then you go back to sleep after nursing until 7:30 or 8am. 

Nurse every 3 hours during daytime

Eat baby food 3 times a day

Seem to love everything except peas

Love to be given a whole banana to knaw on

Have TWO bottom teeth and the top are trying to push through

Are up on all 4 in the crawl position, rocking back and forth

Try to pull up but have not succeeded yet.

Cry every time you are laid down for a nap and eventually you fall asleep. This can be for 30 minutes or 2 hours.

Celebrated your first Thanksgiving

Met your great-grandmother Nanny and your bestie Begona

Are still sitting with mommy and daddy in church- no nursery.

Wave your sweet hand like a pageant girl. We keep saying "bye,bye" but have no idea if you know what you are doing.

Have figured out that your little pink car gets you places and you scoot in it until your destination. Mommy is plotting out the baby proofing situation.