Months 7 and 8

It's getting a lot harder to take Clara's picture each month.  Month 7 went pretty well:

Although she did do a fair amount of rolling around and trying to get off of the couch:

Month 8 was nearly impossible.  This is just about the best one I got:

First she grabbed my shoe and took it with her up onto the couch.  She wanted to eat it, which obviously she couldn't do (shoe removed before above picture):

Then she started rolling around:

Then she got ahold of the remote:

Then she got distracted by online shopping (like mother like daughter):

Then she decided she needed to get down and put on her shades:

By that point she'd drooled all over the sticker and the colors ran onto her onesie, so I gave up.  The pictures are still pretty cute!

At 8 months Clara is army crawling, pulling up to a stand, waving (though not often), saying mamamamama and dadadada indiscriminately,  and moving from her tummy to a sitting position.

She is eating baby food and feeding herself table food.  She started with puffs and also enjoys bits of banana and ripe pear, soft peas and carrots, hard cooked egg yolk, whole wheat pasta and anything else that we are willing to give her off of our plates.  She enjoys table food so much that we have to feed her baby food before putting anything on her tray or she won't eat it. 

In the past month she's developed a serious case of separation anxiety, which is enough to drive me nuts.  I am hoping this will be a brief phase.  The big, open mouthed kisses definitely make up for it.

She's a sweet, precious little girl, we're having such a good time watching her grow!