8 Months!

Ok...so she'll be 9 months soon, but thought I should post some new pictures of her! I know that's all I do on this blog, but it's all I have time for! (and patience for since my internet is super slow)

Less than a week after I posted her 7 month pictures, she started crawling! It was fun that she was crawling when we went to Nauvoo (July 9-14) so my Dad, Brannon and Courtney were able to see her on the move! Since she started crawling, it seems like she has something new every time I turn around. Here's a list of her new tricks:

• 7/3: said ba-ba
• 7/6: crawled across the room for the first time, clapped her hands when I clapped to congratulate her crawling, signed "milk" when it was time to put her down for the night. Since then, she signs milk all the time and makes the funniest face along with it (scowls her brow and looks very serious...like, you better know what I am asking for and give it to me now!) Needless to say, I can't oblige all the time! Like last week my mom and I were in the middle of Wal-Mart and she started signing it with both hands with that serious face...it was quite funny!
• 7/7: Said "da-da" (says that one ALL THE TIME now...and can scream it at the top of her lungs with a really high-pitched tone!)*Today while watching Baby Signing Time, they said "DAD" and she was busy playing with something, but immediately after they said it, she looked up at the TV and said "DAD" just so matter of fact, like "I know that word too"!
• 7/24: Signed "all-done"
• 7/31: Signed "ball" when she saw it on Baby Signing Time
• ?: Don't know when she actually started signing more, but she signs it usually when she wants to, not when we ask her to...but usually she will if we sing the "more, more, more" song!
• ?: signed please when Rusty was feeding her and he was asking her to sign please (she hasn't done that one since!)
• 8/14: said "ma-ma"
  Pulls up to stand on anything and everything, especially my legs after she has chased me down and wants to be picked up! She also loves to pull up on my closet doors which are sliding mirrors and press her face up against it like she is kissing the "other baby".
• Can walk down the couch or ottoman
• Makes babies at church cry because she is constantly screaming at the top of her lungs (just to hear her own voice, not b/c she's unhappy...they are actually quite happy shrills!) Needless to say, we try to listen to sacrament in the foyer, b/c it's impossible to keep her from screaming!
• She also has 3 out of her top 4 teeth in...they all came in one at a time about a week apart, we're just waiting on the 4th to cut through the skin!
  

I hope I got it all, she is just growing, learning, and changing so fast it is hard to keep up! I LOVE being home with her everyday and am so blessed I get to witness all of these things first-hand!

Now for the pictures of our beautiful "Princess"

Elle with my mom @ Kaitlyn's birthday part - we put Katie's tiara on Elle & as you can see, she didn't mind!

I french braided her hair! I have to bribe her with puffs to get her to stay in her highchair long enough!

Digging for toys...I love how her diaper is hanging out!

She found a pacifier in the toy basket, even though she has never sucked on one before in her life! She hates them, and usually only wants her thumb(s).

This is her screaming like a wild banshee as she is crawling toward me as fast as she can!

We went out to eat, but forgot a bib, and in an effort to save her white top from being orange...we tried tieing a to-go bag around her neck...needless to say it didn't work, but had us laughing so hard at her trying to pull it off!

I love her sweet little face in this picture of her in her "big-kid" pajamas (size 12 month...they are a little bit big, but I had to get that size to have them with out feet)
This is the face she made all day one day (7/20) when she started feeling her teeth coming through!