Madyson is 8 Months old!

Holy cow, time is flying! Next week she will be driving! ;)

Madyson is doing extremely well. I think she eats better than Kevin and I. Here are some of the things she has tried thus far (all of which, we have prepared for her):

-Bananas
-Avocado
-Carrots
-Peaches
-Pears
-Apples
-Apricots
-Tomato
-Basil
-Corn
-Peas
-Leeks
-Onions
-Pumpkin
-Sweet potato
-Potato
-Cauliflower
-Zucchini
-Chicken
-Lamb (surprisingly, she really likes this one)

Tonight I am introducing her to asparagus and mushrooms.

Yesterday we went to Bates Nut Farm! This was our first trip to Bates and Madyson's first trip to a farm/pumpkin patch! We had a blast! We started off with a hayride around the farm, we even brought Shaye along and he loved it! After that, we headed over to the shade for Madyson's mid-morning snack, then over to the ponies and farm animals... Madyson wanted to ride the ponies but I told her she would have to wait until next year. :) We checked out the country store and then headed to the pumpkin patch. There were so many pumpkins! Itty bitty ones to Giant Pumpkin size, Charlie Brown would have been impressed. We walked through the bigger ones just to look around and take some pictures of Madyson and then we picked out our Jack-O-Lantern pumpkin and headed home. It was a great morning and it wiped all of us out!

She is still doing good with sleeping through the night, although her bedtime varies from 4:30pm to 6:30pm and generally wakes up around 6-6:30am. If only we could push both these times back a little we would be in there! Although, I am not complaining.

Lately, I have been trying to slowly introduce small bites for her to pick up with her hands and feed to herself. We started yesterday and she really was just moving the food around the tray. I would hold a piece for her, bring her fingers together around it and then guide it to her mouth for her. Today, we started the same way, but after about 10 minutes she was off on her own!

She has also recently started to crawl and by that I mean she has her face in the ground while kicking her legs in a frog like motion and slowly inches towards the toy (or the pine cones I have set out) until she reaches it. She is starting to figure out that it is much easier, and less painful, to keep her head up. Baby proofing here we come!

And the last update, but by no means least; she said "Mama"!!! She usually only makes this sound when she is upset, but just to hear it come out of her cute little mouth was enough to make anyone melt... I promise, you would have too. We are working on "dada" now. :)