Lydia is Eight Months Old

On October 23rd, Lydia turned eight months old! I can't believe how fast the time has gone by. She is getting so big!Her hair is getting so long. I decided to take some pictures with it straight because it shows the length a little better. If I don't pull her bangs back they hang into her eyes. Her bangs are almost long enough to tuck behind her ear. It is so much fun having a baby with lots of hair.
Lydia gets more fun to have around every day. We really are blessed to have such a cute, happy, health baby. Here are some pictures with her hair curly and pulled out of her face.Here is a list of what Lydia has been up to lately:

*She claps - she loves to clap and has started to clap at everything.
*She can wave- she opens and closes her fingers as her wave. She is starting to understand how to wave back when someone waves at her.
*She loves to talk and talk and talk- dada and baba are her favorite words but she also loves to just babble.
*She still sings - she will hold notes for over 30 seconds and also will raise and lower her pitch.
*She still rolls to get wherever she wants to go. She is really good at turning in a circle to change the direction that she wants to roll.
*She tries to crawl but ends up going backward instead of forward. She has been able to move forward a little bit. It is a lot of fun to watch her try.
*She has started dancing to music. She bounces up and down, shakes her head, stomps her feet, and moves her arms all around. She will dance to most songs, but when we play Lady Gaga, Bad Romance is when she pulls out all of her moves. It is pretty entertaining watching her.
*She loves to eat finger foods and to feed herself. Rice biscuits are her favorite. She gets excited when I pull the biscuits out to hand her.
*She has started taking a bottle. She took it a few times in Tennessee and when we came back I just kept trying to give it to her and she decided that she likes the bottle and drinks from it better than she nurses now. She is mostly on the bottle now because I have started to dry out.
*She loves to play with toys. She is content to just sit and play all day by herself.
*She sleeps through the night - yay!
*She still doesn't have any teeth.
*She has been to seven states - Utah, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi, and North Carolina. That is pretty impressive for an eight month old.
These are pictures that we took before church on October 17th. She looks so grown up in her dress.