She's a tall drink of water!
Emma had the second half of her flu vaccination today (twice the needles and twice the fun for one vaccination, yee-ha), and while we were there, I asked the nurse if we could weigh her since we haven't weighed or measured her at all since her 6 month appointment. Well, it turns out Emma is maintaining her 50th percentile weight (18.25 pounds at 8 months old - or at least she'll be 8 months old on Monday) but that made me wonder what her height, or rather length, is up to now, so I measured her when we got home. Much to my surprise, Emma's length has jumped from the 50th percentile at 6 months old to about the 80th percentile at 8 months old! (Chris notes that it seems that whenever I measure Emma at home, the doctor's office always comes up with a shorter length for her at her appointments, but I did it three separate times so I'm standing by my measurement!)

After all the measuring was over, Emma did some playing on the floor in her room:

• We get Emma to practice sitting up by putting toys in front of her while she is sitting on the floor. If we don't give her some incentive, she will just flop over and start rolling around, which is her favorite thing to do at the moment.
  
• Em gets a very serious and intent look on her face whenever she is playing with a toy. Lighten up, kiddo!
  
• Emma always has to lick and taste everything, from toys to people to flooring materials. We think she picked up this habit from observing Chloe the cat, who licks everything from the windowpanes to the plants.
  
• Mommy had to take another close-up shot while Em was busily rolling around on her changing table. Yep, we can't step away from her for a second anymore! Crawling isn't too far off in the future, either, much to the cats' chagrin!

- posted by Heather @ 9:22 PM