8 months old!!

Jazlyn will be 8 months old tomorrow. My how time flies. She is my pride and joy!! Although I don't take her to the doctor until next month for her 9 month check-up, I predict she weighs about 15 lbs. Now that she is eating cereal and baby food, she is chunking up a little bit. She's got the chubby cheeks and the double chin. Her little legs are not so little any more either. I think we finally have her on a good schedule. She has cereal and milk for breakfast and lunch with a bottle in between and then after an afternoon bottle she eats a whole jar of baby food for supper and then drinks another bottle just before bed. This week she has been getting really tired around 8:00. Believe it or not, we have put her to bed by 8:30 every night. I am kind of liking this. It gives me a little time to do what I want to do before I go to bed. She still sleeps through the night. Every now and then we will hear her fuss a little bit, but she manages to fall back to sleep. The last few mornings she has been laying the opposite direction of how I laid her down the night before. She's a little squirmer at night, but I would never guess that on the monitor. The monitor is a savior for me. I have had some pretty sleepless nights just worrying about her, but when I hear her on the monitor I feel relieved. Not sure why I worry so much, but I do. I lose a lot of sleep. :( I always feel so bad waking her up in the morning. She is so sound asleep. I pick her up and she just lays her head on my shoulder for a little bit and doesn't want to open her eyes. Once she wakes up she is in a really good mood. I get her dressed and feed her the cereal and a bottle before I take her to either Alex's mom or my mom. I still need that bonding time with her in the morning. I enjoyed every minute of it when I was nursing her and I didn't want that to change when I quit. Things are too chaotic in the evenings, so I don't get that one on one with her as much. She's still not crawling. She rolls around a lot and scoots, but can't quite get her knees up. We'll keep working. As she continues to say 'da da', we are practicing very hard to get the 'ma ma' down. She's got the 'b' and 'g' sounds down and loves to smack her lips, but that is all the closer we are to 'ma ma'. She has been entertaining us with some pretty funny faces. It's a sight to see. Alex's mom told me this week, that when I pull up at her house, she'll tell Jazlyn that 'mommy's here' and Jazlyn immediately looks toward the door and then looks at his mom and smiles. It makes my day every evening when I pick her up just how excited she is to see me. She kicks and coos like crazy and reaches her arms out for me. I love it!! Well that's all for now.