Birthdays!

My sweet, wonderful husband turned 30 last Friday (January 23). We celebrated with his family at Bob's Steak & Chop!




And Julia turns 8 months old today! At 8 months: -

• She is trying to pull up and loves standing up, but has zero interest in crawling.
  
• One of her top teeth is about 1/2 way in, and she clicks/grinds it against her bottom teeth. The sound is absolutely worse than nails on a chalkboard!


• Her personality clearly takes after her dad more than her mom (hooray!). She is mellow and calm, and she's generally very happy but doesn't necessarily show it on her face 24-7.


• Also like her daddy, she can still sleep like a champ. She sleeps 11.5 - 12 hours at night and still takes two good naps during the day (every once in a while, 3 naps).


• She's a fantastic eater. We'd heard plenty of stories of babies who ate great until green beans were introduced. The child eats them like applesauce. Many times, she has her mouth wide open before we can even get the next bite ready! We call her our little birdie. This is how wide she opens her mouth (yes, we were letting her sip water from a straw):



• She likes to "dance" to music. She'll bounce up and down to music when she's sitting (see video below), but she also gets a big smile on her face when I hold her in my arms and boogie to upbeat dance music.






• Her favorite discovery of this month has been to hold an object in each hand and bang them together. She gets such a giddy grin on her face as she makes "music".

A cute picture of my two favorite people together: