Happy 8 Month Birthday Vera!

Miss V:  Over the weekend you turned 8 months old... you are just as sweet and as happy as can be.  This past month marked a few cool achievements or new firsts that may or may not have been mentioned yet in your blog- I can't remember!  About 3 weeks ago you started consistently sleeping "through the night".  This means that you go to bed around 7:30 pm, wake up between 5 and 5:30 for a 5 minute feed, then go back sleep until about 7am.  Not too shabby.  I'll take it!  You started eating meat, chicken and turkey to be exact, so you are no longer a vege/fruit/breastmilk-atarian, and in the last few days you started eating & liking dairy-  yogurt, cottage and shredded cheese.  You have mastered saying "more" in sign language (even though you also use it to communicate that you are hungry) and you also wave hello and goodbye to pretty much everyone.  You continue to LOVE swim class, which is a total highlight of your week.  You vigorously wave your arms and legs around in excitement whenever you are excited an especially every time we go to school to drop off or pick up Griffin from Runamuck.  Crawling wise, Dad and I know we are close to breaking back out those baby gates, as you are starting to push yourself backwards and pivot all around on your stomach.  No official crawling yet, but you are getting there.  You still only have 2 bottom teeth, but have been sucking your thumb a little and putting everything in your mouth lately, so new teeth are on their way.  You love laughing at and with your brother and he loooves making you laugh too.  Sometimes he plays "horse" with you, which means he sits on top of you and pretends that you are his horse.  You don't seem to mind it.. in fact, you are quite a giggly and patient horse. Sweet baby Vera, we couldn't love you more.