Jane 8 months old!

Tomorrow Jane is 8 months old! And I feel I haven't posted about her cute face enough on here so I need to do an update!

She is such a blessing to our family. She is happy, calm, content, and so much fun! The girls absolutely LOVE having a baby in the home. Even though she is 8 months old they still often fight over who gets to hold her, talk to her, or entertain her. Feeding her bottles isn't a fight anymore for them...cause she is SO active and wiggly and so feeding her can be a challenge.

Jane loves to move and be active and can't hold still for anything. Changing a diaper can be quite the feat...she can't stand to be on her back and not moving around. She is army crawling all over the place and has gotten quite fast at it. She has to be exploring and finding new things around the house. Jane has also learned how to pull herself up to things which makes her so proud and me very nervous. But she pulls herself and just stands there until I rescue her because she doesn't know how to get back down.

Jane still loves sleeping. She sleeps about 12 hours at night (still has to have one bottle in the middle of the night) and then sleeps at least 5-6 hours during the day. It makes it quite difficult to go anywhere since she starts getting grumpy if she is awake for more than a hour and 1/2 at a time. But its' a problem I will definitely take.

After we traveled to Arizona for Thanksgiving, she got her first cold and ear infection. Cade and I tried to wait it out and use essential oils to help it clear up, but after 8 nights of screaming, we needed to put her on an antibiotic. We tried so hard to avoid it because Lucy got her first ear infection at 8 months old and we went on a 2 year journey of screaming every night all night (ear infection after ear infection which led to many antibiotics which led to really bad silent acid reflux). Jane's crying at night almost did me in because of PTSD. I hope and pray she doesn't have to go through what Lucy did.

Then after recovering from her ear infection, I fed her eggs and she threw up for hours and hours. She threw up so much she hasn't really wanted to touch food for weeks (she very hesitantly puts things to her mouth and takes teeny tiny bites). Poor thing. I felt so bad for her. I stayed up with her until 1:30 in the morning until the barf was finally finished. I hope she grows out of an egg allergy and that we don't have to deal with that again. 

She has been healthy for a couple weeks now and sleeping like a champ. Her newest thing is a scrunchy face and blowing in and out of her nose. It's so dang cute! WE love are sweet Jane SO much!

[At her 6 month appt she was:
15.7 lbs- 33 %
26.5 inches long- 70%
Then at 7 1/2 months old she weighed at 16.5 lbs]

Pictures from 3-6 months old:

Picutres from 6-8 months old: