Bailey's 8 Months

Bailey turned eight months this past week and she is like a completely different person all of a sudden! She learned so many new things over the last few weeks and her personality is really starting to show. I am having a blast with her right now and can't get enough! I had her home with me for a whole week during Thanksgiving week due to doctor appointments and illness and really got attached to being around her all the time. We thought Jacob was a happy child, but she really outshines him in that area!!

Bailey's post-UTI tests came back negative, so her UTI was just random and hopefully won't recur. We spent three hours at the hospital and she developed a fever while we were there. After it rose after we got home, I took her into our pediatrician to be checked out and they did another catheter on her to check for a UTI. It came back negative, but the poor girl had to endure two catheters in one day. I felt so horrible for her!! It turns out that her fever was from a virus that hit all of us during Thanksgiving week. All Bailey had was a fever, but Dan and I had the stomach flu, and Jacob had a low-grade fever and didn't eat for two days. Fun times! I'm just thankful that it skipped the two days we had plans to celebrate Thanksgiving with our families.

Bailey at eight months:

*Crawling! - she crawled for the first time during Jacob's birthday party (11/21)

*Standing with support - this has to be her absolute favorite thing right now, nothing lights her up more at the moment!

*Eating two meals a day and loving it

*Starting to make letter sounds - "baa, baa" and "maa, maa". She said "mama" also on 11/21.

*Holding her bottle by herself

*Pulling herself up onto her knees, she still isn't strong enough to pull up into a standing position yet on her own.

*Strong-willed on getting to certain things. Once she spots something she wants, she can crawl very quickly to it now.


Crawling (this is within two hours of her first doing it)




Playing with a balloon that Aunt Sharla had




Dancing with the musical frog