8-Month Review

I'm posting this a little late, since we were on the cruise for Georgie's 8-month birthday.

The big news for Georgine's 8th month was ... teeth! About 6 days into the month, she got her first tooth (bottom left). Then on the morning of her 8th month birthday, her top right. We noticed that day that her bottom right was peeking through, too.

She also learned to wave at people and had a lot of fun with waving at people on the cruise. Also, her first cruise! Being around a lot of people was good for her; she seems very social (even if shy as far as having people hold her) and had a great time with her Hobbins family and interacting with lots of other people on the cruise. (Thanks again to Grandpapa and Nana for the cruise, and to all the Hobbinses for being so good with her.) She also visited her first foreign countries: Jamaica, Grand Cayman, and Mexico. We got her passport stamped at the first two (we didn't know we had to get it stamped in downtown Cozumel, which we vistited, rather than nearer the port where our ship docked, and it was too late to go back downtown). She also went swimming for the first time in Mexico. And at her first beach. Another first that happened on the cruise is that she got to interact for the first time with someone her own age: little German Ben, who she scared with her excitement.

The other big travel for Month 8 was Georgie's first road trip: to Portland (741 miles, one way) to visit Aunt Darla and Uncle Steve. Georgie did great in the car, and she (and we) had a wonderful time with the Balikos. Thanks, Darla and Steve, for always being so fun to hang out with.

She pretty much went straight from crawling to pulling herself up when she was 6+ months, and the past month she did more of that and started cruising.

Month 8 she also got her first flu shot and finished her first rounds of vaccines. I think we start again at 12 months with the vaccines, but we need to look that up. Her flu shot was also on her first halloween! She went as a cow and went to Conrad to visit Grandpa and to look around IGA (and to get her flu shot). Oh, and she went to the Dupuyer Elementary's Halloween party with her papa.

Georgie also picked up (but now seems to have lost) her nose-crinkle smile. She's getting much more expressive, but I think I'll write about that for the 9-month-review.