Lily's 8 Months

My baby girl is 8 months old!  Doesn't she look excited?

This past month she has acquired two bottom teeth.  She can now say mama and dada.  Loves to be in her bouncer and squeals with delight every time she is in it.  

She just discovered that she has a shiny crown on her onsie.

Lily has also become quite mobile.  Not only can she roll like a pro, she can sit up, get into plank position and roll to her side and almost sit up from there.  She loves to smile, laughs when you nom, nom her chin and  likes to look at books (especially The Belly Button book).

Her favorite foods are still avocados and pears with the addition of blueberries, yam fries, and steamed broccoli.  Basically if you give her anything in finger food form she will eat it.  She tried peaches and absolutely hates them, but does love grated cheese.  

Lily is such an expressive baby and loves to babble (usually very loudly in the middle of Walmart or the grocery store).  

It's like she's saying, "You want to me to do what?  Seriously..."

New Floor

A couple of weekends ago Tyler and I set out to tear up the flooring in our living room, hallway and kitchen. The carpet in the living room and hallway was horribly thin and the carpet tacks were coming through.  So instead of just replacing the carpet we decided to make the living area more cohesive by using the same flooring throughout.  

I really wish I would have taken pictures of the torn up mess our house was, but alas I was a little too busy pulling up carpet and staples to remember.  Here is a before picture that I took right after we moved in, it's a little dark but you can see a bit of the carpet and some of the vinyl in the kitchen.

Now here is the new laminate floor.  It goes throughout the kitchen and living room and down the hallway.  I absolutely love it!  The girls are especially happy about not stepping on carpet tacks when they walk into the kitchen.

4th of July

This year our 4th of July was pretty laid back and uneventful.  We went to the parade in the morning and then just hung out around the house for the rest of the day.  Tyler's mom and sister did come over for pizza that night.  We didn't even do fireworks, the girls were in bed by 8.  I know, it sounds pretty lame, but we had a good time at the parade and playing together the rest of the day.

Sophie and Zoe anxiously awaiting the start of the parade.  It was cute though, Zoe clapped for all of the runners that ran by for the 5k before the parade. 

Lily, not sure what to think about being in the hot sun and wearing a goofy sun hat.  Let's just say that the sun hat didn't last very long!

My cutie patooties!

The Zoo

At the first of June Tyler and I took the girls to the Hogle Zoo.  If you haven't been yet this year, you really need to go.  The new exhibits are amazing.  My favorite were the river otters.  They were adorable, very active and fun to watch.  The seals were cute too!  The zoo did such a good job making it easy to see the new animals. 

The girls loved the seals. It was so fun to see them gliding through the water!

Sophie, Zoe and Tyler....we need to remember to tell Sophie not to feed the bear or we will be in a heap of trouble when we go camping!

We had so much fun and the girls loved it!

Zoe

This little girl...oh my!  How I love her and her little bit of quirkiness.  She is fun loving, comical, expressive and is going to be a heart breaker.  

Here is what she has been up to lately:

See that cream colored blanket in her hand, well that is her beloved "blankie bear."  It goes EVERYWHERE!  In the car, to grandma's, to church...it is very hard to separate the two.  When she does have to leave it (I won't let her take it into the store. I'm such a mean mommy), she will give it a huge sniff with her thumb stuck in her mouth. 

Oh and don't you just love the pose. She is quite the crazy girl.

Yesterday we were on our way home from getting groceries.  I had some M&Ms and the girls wanted some.  I told them they had to wait until we got home since Sophie was too far away in the van for me to give her some.  Zoe proceeded to tell me, "my bones are crying because mommy won't give me any M&Ms."  She also is very fond of playing ninja and will randomly karate chop or sneak up on you.

The past 6 months this girl has been deathly afraid of the wind.  And let me tell you nine times out of ten the stupid wind starts blowing right at bedtime.  As a result, she repeatedly comes out of her room and usually ends up in bed with Tyler and I at midnight.  She is also not an easy person to sleep with, she doesn't like covers and for being so little sure take up a lot of space. 

Zoe is shy to strangers, isn't a big fan of boys/men, only allows mommy to put her to bed and loves to cuddle.  

Here are her new pictures, they speak volumes about her personality.

Those eyes can make you do anything...trust me!!