Carmen - 8 months

Our baby Carmen is 8 months old. Her face and personality are changing so much. She started to crawl at 7.5 months and still does not crawl a lot. She is very slow when she does too!

She is a huge mama's girl right now, which means, if she's with anyone and she sees mom, she starts whining until she gets to her mommy. She still has a great, laid back personality and does not fuss much unless it's warrented with hunger or tiredness. However, don't take anything she has in her hands away from her because she'll get mad!

She loves her big brother so much and laughs at all the silly stuff he does. Brother returns the love and always wants to hug her. He calls her his baby and will only let me refer to him as big brother around her.

She walks all over the house in her walker. She loves to visit Vince in the playroom and watch him play. She also loves taking the kitchen towels from the oven, taking magnets from the fridge, and grabbing the trash bag from the trash can. This week she knocked over the trash can and a stool back to back! She's funny the way she controls the walker, she'll go into the laundry room, then look back and reverse as if she's driving a car.

She loves waving at everyone. Maybe not at the correct times. She just waves and waves. After she waves, she puts her hand to her mouth back and forth to make noise in what I call the Indian. After a bit of that, she grabs her other hand and pumps them up and down, doing what I call the hammer. I love the wave, Indian, hammer combo.

She started babbeling as if she is talking to us this week. She especially does it if you put her in front of a mirror.

Unfortunately she is somewhat sickly. For the past month she has been sick non-stop and she's had congestion and coughing problems since birth. Antibiotics couldn't get her healthy recently. It probably stems from allergies. She is actually on steriods right now to try and get her better. She had chest x-rays recently that showed either pre-asthma (Vince has asthma) or a broncial virus, but her dr thinks it's both. I'm learning all about the respiratory system and asthma so we'll get her better soon with all her treatments we do daily!

We are blessed to have this angel with us. She loves and is loved by our whole family. Her 8 month birthday fell one day before Thanksgiving and 2 days before daddy David's 32nd birthday. Happy 8 months Carmey!