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!
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.
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?
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!
If is official – we have a crawler (and in the forward direction)
Jessaleigh can now get up on hands and knees, rock back and forth and even move her hands and catch herself. Her pace is … well let just say her brother can still out pace her, but she will break glacier speed soon enough
Jessaleigh ate some banana today!
We tried some avocado last week, but it came right back out with a thrust of the tongue, but this week banana was a go. Jessaleigh made some very interesting faces when the banana would first go into her mouth, but still wanted more to try. Such a silly girl.
Pictures to come (when I get them off my camera)
Height: 26.5 In 81st percentile
Weight: 16lbs 5.5oz 55th percentile
Head Circ: 17.76 in 97th percentile
At six months Jessaleigh can:
Taken on her first camping trip!
I know I have mentioned it before, but now we have finally caught Jessaleigh rolling over on “film.” She has been able to do this for weeks, but doesn’t seem to want to very often. I guess it is a personality thing.