8 months old

Here is a picture of Brynn standing all by herself! She actually pulled herself up for the first time this past Friday while holding on to this shelf. Another sign that she is truly growing up!


Here is Brynn with her buddy Ty eating cookies and watching Baby Einstein together.

I can't believe my little baby is 8 months old already! Time has gone by way too fast since Brynn has been born. But we are loving every second of it. We are still waiting to see if she will ever crawl, and are thinking she might start walking first. She rolls everywhere, and would much rather stand than anything else. Jesse is constantly trying to teach her new words. The most recent has been poop, and now every time we say it or ask her if she pooped she spits. Its pretty funny! I tried to get it on tape but she just wasn't wanting to perform for the camera.

This past week and a half has been great because Jesse had off work and was able to spend a lot of time with Brynn and I. Sadly, Brynn was sick most of the time, and were ended up staying at home more than we wanted to. And Jesse had to return to work yesterday which made Brynn and I very sad. I know it was so much harder for him though. I really do appreciate all the sacrifices he makes for our family. He works so hard to provide for us so that I can stay at home, and is still always helping out with things around the house after he gets home. I am going to work on getting a little more done around the house during the day so he can just relax and play with Brynn after work.

We have also been working on getting Brynn to sleep through the night. She used to do it really well when she was younger, but then she suddenly began hating her crib and screams everytime she is awake and realizes that she is in it. With her being sick for the past few weeks with colds and ear infections, I haven't been letting her cry it out very much. But now it's back to business. We started just letting her scream in there on Sunday night and it is so hard! Sunday night she screamed and tried to escape from the crib for about 50 minutes until she finally cried herself to sleep. Then she woke up about 3-4 more times during the night crying and we just had to let her cry herself to sleep. Then last night I messed up big time! I let her cry herself to sleep which took about an hour, and then at about 1 am she woke up and was screaming. I think I was still kind of asleep, and went into her room and took her out of her crib. I didn't realize what I was doing until it was too late and I was so mad at myself! So I feel like we need to start all over again tonight! If anyone has any great advice on this whole sleeping thing, I am all ears!