We have a crawler - watch out world!

We can hardly believe that Daphne is already in the category of an unsupported sitter and now a crawler! Granted she isn't doing the 'classic crawl' - which is up on all fours. But, what she is doing is referred to as the 'belly crawl'. And as you can see in the video she is eager to get to her destination by any means necessary! She does get up on all fours and rocks back and forth, but hasn't figured out that she can go anywhere by alternating her arms and legs - which we're sure, that is right around the corner. Although, some babies go right from belly crawling to walking. So, who knows.

Daphne - Eight Months Old

Daphne is 8 months old!  

Here are the updates, as we have them:

Weight:
Seven Months: 13lbs, 4ozs.
Eight Months:  14lbs, 6ozs.

Height:

Seven Months: 25 inches (there was no 'official' measurement from a doctor's appointment, so we left it unchanged)
Eight Months: 26 inches, by using the elephant growth chart courtesy of Aunt Amy. (see image below)

Hair Color:

Seven Months: Looks like it might be growing back in; definitely brown
Eight Months:  Brown; and it is coming in thicker and thicker every day

Eye color:

Seven Months: blue, the pediatrician thinks they are here to stay - since she is past the 6 month mark; but I've heard that eye color can change up to 1 year old.
Eight Months:  blue, blue, blue

Here's what Daphne has been up to lately:

Daphne no longer uses/needs her pacifier. Backstory: apparently there are sizes of pacifiers and apparently the baby should be getting the next size up every three months (or so). Well, leave it to us not to notice that Daphne was using the same size (0-3 month) pacifier that she received in hospital at birth right up to a couple of months ago. (gasp! the horror!)

We eventually did buy the next size pacifiers, but she wanted nothing to do with them - except to gum them to death. She refused to take it going down for a nap, she refused it when we used it to try to soothe her while in her different stages of crankiness. No deal, she just spit it out or outright blocked it with her hands. Not sure if she's just one of those kids that doesn't like (or doesn't need) a pacifier but either way we are happy to accept the fact that we don't have to break her of that pacifier habit down the road. We've heard horror stories about it.  :)