8 months!

I've got another month under by belt!  They seem to be flying by.  I'm getting in my grove, sleeping through the night, eating when I'm suppose to and taking my naps like a good little baby.  What more could my parents ask for?  Apparently they want me to gain more weight!  At my last appointment I was 13 pounds 3 oz, up just over 1/2 a pound from last month.  Even though my height is taking off at 25.6 inches (25th %), my doctor here is freaking out.  Bolivians believe that the heavier the baby, the healthier.  She is never too concerned about my development...just wants to know how much I weigh.  My doctor had lots of suggestions for me.  Here are a few of her suggestions:

2 cooked egg yolks a day

PediaSure

chicken liver

yogurt

jello

2 spoonfuls of vegetable oil a day

spinach

Thank goodness by parents are taking her advice with a grain of salt.  But, I am going to try several of these suggestions.  My mom did buy chicken liver at the market the other day...we'll she if she is brave enough to give it to me.  Anyways, I do need to beef up a little bit.  I have a weigh in on the 27th, so you can pray that all the hard work my parents are doing, cooking me 5 meals a day, will pay off!  

Other than my weight, I'm a pretty normal 8 month old.  I love sitting up, but I don't really stay in one place long.  Technically I'm not crawling yet, but that doesn't stop me from getting to where I need to go.    In fact I've already run away from my parents.  It took them a little while to find me...but that's for another blog.  I'm talking more and more...and I try to be just like my big sister.  So I have to talk really loud!  Life is pretty good and I can't complain.

Think I'll be spending a lot of time in this chair!

Love playing with my big sister.  

I like being out and about.

Just in case you were wondering...I can still get my foot in my mouth!

Visitors!

Our friends, The Moulding Family, came for a visit last week.  They are missionaries from the UK that work for FH in La Paz.  Maybe you remember me talking about their daughter Alana before.  She is just turning 5 this month, so she is a little bit older than me.  But this visit we also got to meet her new baby brother, Isaiah.  He was born 1 1/2 months after Lydia.  The two of them had fun together.  Lydia did a good job sharing her toys with him.  

Hamming it up for the camera.

Lydia is trying to measure up!

Feeding the birds at the plaza.

A Visit to the plaza is not complete without a ride on the lion.

"Hey guys...don't forget us in these things!"

Thanks for coming to visit.  It was fun!

Special Daddy Time!

Since Lydia has been born, I've gotten to spend some extra time with just Daddy and me. I LOVE it!  A few weeks ago, Toy Story the Musical came to our outdoor theater in Sucre!  Daddy and I got to go and it was so much fun.  Well...actually it turned into quite a Bolivian adventure and the anticipation was the most exciting part.  The doors were suppose to open at 4:30pm.  So we decided to get there right at 4:30pm even though we knew there would be a lot of people waiting in line most of the afternoon to get the best seats.  It's a good thing we didn't leave any earlier...we ended up waiting in line for an hour anyway as the doors didn't end up opening until a bit after 5:30pm.  (Which is when the show was suppose to start.)  We found seats and waited, and waited, and waited.  Clowns came out to entertain us...and they kept saying "cinco minutos mas..."  (5 more minutes...).  This went on for almost 2 hours...finally the show started a little after 7pm.  After all that waiting...nothing really lives up to the hype.  We ended up leaving at intermission at 8:30pm, an hour past my bedtime!      

For his job, my Daddy does trainings in churches, which usually happens at night time.  Since I don't get to see him much in the evenings, I am happy that he can be home with us in the afternoons sometimes.  A few weeks ago my Daddy and me did a project...making a prince and princess out of aluminum cans.  (My Daddy is a really good artist!  A lot of people don't know that!)  

Thanks Daddy!  I love spending time with you!

Jugando en la casita con mi hermana!

The other day I was playing in our playhouse with my sister...

Somehow, I became the play toy...

...but it was fun...

...and I survived...

...barely.

Crawling....

...well not quite yet.  But I'm working on it.  This is my new favorite trick.  I'm up on my knees!

7 months old!

It's been an eventful month for me!  As you can see in the above picture I'm now sitting up all by myself!  I've also got my first two teeth.  I just woke up one day and there was the first one.  Then the next day there was another one!  I've also been doing a lot of eating.  I've tried several vegetables and a few fruits too...but my favorite food by far is avocados!  At my check-up I was 12 lbs, 12 oz.  I'm still off the curve, but it's a bit of an improvement from last month.  I will just have to keep working on it! 

I am really good at rolling around now, and can get to almost anything I lay my eyes on.  I'm getting familiar with several of my toys now and have my favorites.  Pretty much anything soft I like so I can chew on it.  I also LOVE looking in the mirror.  Did you know that there is a cute little baby that lives in all the mirrors?   She is so cute and I love looking at her!  

No jars of baby food in Sucre...so I've got my freezer stocked with the fresh stuff!

I love being apart of story time!

Ready to Roll...

The joys of being a little sister...

...why do they let her do these things to me!