8 Months Old

She is quite the character now! She has mastered the "army crawl" and loves the ability to move from place to place. At our weekly moms' group, she spent most of her time creeping along the floor instead of gigggling with the other kids like she normally does. She had places to go, I guess. Her other new development is that insists on feeding herself. This is quite difficult, as she does not have any teeth. So we attempt to spoon a few bites of pureed food into her mouth, but mainly she prefers that we spoon it onto cheerios or Kashi crackers and let her go to town with those. Maybe a quirk of a independence-seeking second-born child? If Mali doesn't need help eating, neither does she!