Enna- 8 months

Enna,

How is it even possible you are 8 months old already? It seems like the baby of the family just doesn't stay a baby for long at all.

This month has been a doozy. Oh, yeah. And my seriously sleep deprived brain is almost unable to recall much of what has happened. But we have burned the midnight oil with you most nights, that is for sure!

You spent a lot of the month feeling poorly. You had a terrible cough that you got from your sister and then that went away for a few days and then you had a rough few days with teething and then you started in with another runny nose that turned into full blow chicken pox and now that you are finally finishing those you have another cough. Okay...now I am going to take a deep breath. Ahh. That pretty much sums up last month.

However, despite your ill-feeling state, you stayed relatively happy during the day. I mean, some days were rough, especially on those first few days of pox, but you stilled tried to smile and play and be happy even when you felt miserable.

You now have 4 teeth and are working on 5 and 6 erupting any day. Seriously, they are all coming in fast. I'm guessing you will have 8 teeth in the next few weeks. Can I pause here and say I loathe teething...like really loathe the teething process. Okay, moving on.

You are not mobile yet, but you are starting to scoot places. You will be full out crawling soon.

You pretty much gave up solids for a little while, but are slowing starting up again. You still do not like to self feed and you don't like anything but homemade purees. And you still hate most fruit, especially bananas.

The chicken pox were a completely unexpected turn of events for this month and it really stunk for everyone involved. You were so miserable and we felt so helpless!

Here you are 4 days ago, exactly 8 months old.

And, this is how you really felt about the chicken pox.

Now, you are scabby and crusty all over, but smiling and playing again. You have a nasty cough, but you are dancing to music and babbling and being your normal self most of the time that we are SOOOOO happy. We sure missed you sweet girl!

Love,

Mama