Aria and Siena have officially been here longer then they were inside me (yes that’s what happens when you give birth a month early!)
Their hair is both long enough to put little clips in. It's cute to see how grown up they look with a little clip keeping their hair back to the side.
I decided to let them start sitting up in the bath tub. They love it. They splash, play with some toys, and steal each others toys. And when I go to lay them down to wash them, they throw a fit most nights. So now I lay them down and wash them first and then sit them up to play.
I gave in (again) and both are back on their pacifiers to sleep. The saving grace was that Siena learned to find hers in the crib in the middle of the night…life saver for us. She is sleeping so good now. Aria only needs hers if she wakes up to talk in the early morning and then sucks it and if/when it falls out she stays asleep. So I don’t mind putting it in once a night, and hopefully she will be able to find it in the crib soon enough as well.
I think/hope they are finally teething, then maybe the snot, drool, chomping and sucking will subside for a couple weeks until they teeth again.
I love to check on them every night before I go to bed. I sneak into Aria’s room and she is without fail on her back with her arms spread out and her legs are usually bent a little with the bottoms of her feet touching each other. Siena has moved all over the place and her favorite position I think is her side with her head cocked upwards. Most the time it doesn’t look very comfortable but she loves it. I could watch them sleep for a long time.
Both are still eating really good. Siena screams if we don’t put food in her mouth fast enough and Aria shakes her head side to side really fast when she is done eating. How does she know to do that and does she know that means no?
They have both turned opinionated more this month. My mellow Aria decided to get an opinion and will often let us know when she isn’t happy about something, and she is still loud and starting to shriek, kind of cute, kind of not. Siena gets mad, in fact I see the forming of temper tantrums on the horizon…and it’s not going to be pretty.
Both girls got colds this month. In all 3 colds they’ve had so far, Siena has gotten it first and then Aria gets it, but it’s never as bad as Siena and Siena produces at least 10x’s more snot than Aria (seriously, not an exaggeration.) Poor cute Siena is always so miserable from not being able to breathe and us having to suction her.
Siena - 8 Months
Siena gets up on all 4's, rocks back and forth, has started to move her legs forward but is not officially crawling yet, but oh so close. I’m not in any hurry to have her mobile.
She can roll and get just about anywhere now. Time to start child proofing the house. So far, she hasn’t gotten into trouble with anything but I know that’s just waiting to happen.
Siena’s favorite pass time when she is sitting up is to straighten her legs and arms straight out and tilt back on her bum and then she likes to see how far back she can lean without falling over. It’s so funny to watch. This picture doesn’t do it justice but you can get an idea.
Siena starting spitting her food again this month. It lasted about 10 days and she gave it up again…thank goodness.
When Siena is up on all 4’s she has started shaking/rocking her head and body side to side. It’s the cutest and funniest thing to watch. Not sure where she learned it or why she does it, but I love it.
ARIA - 8 Months
I’ve started calling Aria Thumper. Whenever we feed her or hold her she always takes her left leg and thumps it up and down fast just like Thumper on Bambi, so funny she is.
Aria started playing peek a boo right after she turned 7 months. I hadn’t really even been doing it and all of the sudden one day she took the burp rag and started lifting it over her face and bringing it down again. I love playing it with her and she loves it too. Siena doesn’t do it at all and doesn’t really care so it’s just a little game between Aria and I.
Aria is pushing up not quite on all 4’s but getting closer. She is scooting backwards on her stomach and turns in circles on her stomach. So she doesn’t move around as much but is getting around a little at a time.
Aria has started looking away from me (mostly when I’m feeding her) and then with her head turned all of the sudden she moves her eyes to the side of her head to look at me without turning her head. It’s so funny. It’s like she’s saying, I’m not looking at you and then looks to see if I’m looking at her. When I talk to her then she moves her eyes away from me again.
I’ve never documented this but Aria has been doing this I’m pretty sure her whole life. At least since she was a couple months old. When Aria is on her stomach or if I’m holding her over my shoulder she puts her face into the ground or my shoulder and rubs her nose back and forth really fast. It’s almost like her nose itches or something. It’s so funny and we aren’t sure why she does it but she does it all the time.
Aria started sucking on her bottom lip. At first it was kind of cute but now it’s annoying because she has a rash on her chin from sucking on it so much. Maybe that will go away when she cuts teeth.
Just a cute picture...because.
