At 8 months Jessaleigh is:
Crawling
Pulling up to a stand (with some cruising)
"Talking" to you
Eating (anything and everything, especially if it has meat in it)
Banging things in her hands together (she particularly like to bang the heads of little people together)
Crawling head first off of high places (the bed, the couch, etc.)
Being a boy magnet!

You may notice that the pictures are um, shall we say it is no longer easy to get Jessaleigh to sit still to take a picture. As soon as you put her down she is off to find adventure or at least grab the camera!

After a very long day we went out to dinner tonight. Jessaleigh was in a high chair at the end of our booth. During the course of dinner our little miss Jessaleigh was gawked over by the server and hostess of course. The funnier part were the two (count 'em 2) young BOYS (about age 2 or 3) that visited our table to smile at and ogle her.

She was in heaven

Fulfilling his brotherly duty, Chanler "came to her rescue" to fend off one of the suitors (the second one, named Owen, was 3 and a half, and used to be 1, then 2, then now he was this big at 3!! - he was VERY friendly). Jessaleigh herself bopped the first one in the kisser before his parents came to collect him.

What are we going to do when she is a teenager?

We started Jessaleigh on O's (i.e Cheerios only organic,etc.) last Monday. Day 1 she loved to eat them, but couldn't get them into her mouth by herself. By day 4 she has figured out that if you grab a big enough handful that your chances of getting O's into your mouth are much better. She currently looks just like her brother - shoveling O's into her mouth as fast as she can!

Jessaleigh also started waving this week. She will hold her fist out to you (in a power to the people sort of way) and then slowly try to open her fingers (with no regard for which direction her hand is facing). She get very excited when you realize she is waving and wave back to her.

Jessaleigh now gives kisses (when SHE wants to). She mostly prefers to "kiss" foreheads or cheeks (I guess that is where she gets kissed the most), but occasionally will go for your mouth. Jessaleigh kisses look like this - open your mouth as wide as you can and then hang your tongue out. They are a bit sloppy, but wonderful!