Baby Cummings: February 2014

8 MONTHS OLD!!!!! Someone make time slow down just a wee bit please....before we know it our girly is going to be one.

What an eventful month it is has been! Aunt Karey and Uncle Dan came home on January 10, and Emmy finally got to meet her cousin Lochlan. He is so adorable and he is such a good baby with a super sweet temperament. He's going to be a heartbreaker for sure with those big blue eyes! We had the opportunity to spend lots of time with them over the past month and it was really wonderful. It's amazing to watch the babies together and to see how similar and yet how different they are considering they are only 5 days apart.

The best news....the spit up is finally slowing down!!! She actually went almost 4 days without really spitting up...it was amazing. She has started again, but it's still waay better than it was. I think she's only spitting up now because she's teething. I feel like all babies do between 3 months old and 2 years old it teethe, poor little things. Em was also pretty sick for about a week...it was not fun! I literally couldn't put her down for 4-5 days. Since then, she's been sooo happy and smiling constantly...so fun!

Here's some tidbits from the past month:

- Em has four teeth now, she got her top two teeth just 5 days apart
- She was sick with roseola, a virus where babies get a fever for 3-5 days, and then develop a rash all over their body. There is nothing you can give them, they just have to wait for it to pass
- I took Em to the doctor for the roseola, and at just under 8 months she weighed 19lbs 3oz
- Em has just started to crawl. She's been working on it for about four weeks, and yesterday she finally actually moved forward about four steps
- She moved into her stage 2 carseat, no more carrying her around in her bucket seat
- She hasn't been eating much this past month, she actually didn't eat anything for an entire week while she was sick
- She sits up in her crib now all the time, which makes it difficult to put her down to sleep
- We had to move her crib mattress down because she was starting to hold onto the side of the crib and try to pull herself up
- She has started to wave and it's absolutely adorable! She does it all the time, she even waves at Casey
- She still isn't sleeping through the night....and I'm still tired :)
- She went in her snowsuit for the first time
- She went in a baby sled for the first time and hated it, as a matter a fact she hated being out in the snow altogether...ha!
- She is obsessed with the tv remote
- She looooves greek yogurt!
- And she loves pulling hair!
- This month we did the following: went to Clarksburg four weekends in a row to visit with Karey, Dan, Lochlan and the Cummings fam, went to Aunt Karey and Uncle Dan's Canadian wedding, went to the movies (with Daddy too!), went to some momsgroup gatherings and a few playdates, went to Mississauga to see Grandma Levstik, had Karey, Dan, and Lochlan visit for a few days, and lots of other fun and exciting adventures!

Here's some photos from the past month (Karey took most of the family/baby ones)....:

Emmy and Lochlan meeting at the airport