Last Saturday, Mady turned 8 months old. She's getting huge and is changing so much right now. She's starting to learn new words and sounds and is such a social little thing. She's been able to say Mama and Dada for a while now. This month she's learned to say Bubba (one of her favorite words), uh-oh, and ny-ny. She's a big fan of growling and fake coughing as well. In fact if anyone around her coughs, she has to fake cough. She does this with so much enthusiasm that she ends up coughing for real. It's a vicious cycle.
Mady has discovered a love for walking this month. Rarely does she want to sit on the floor and pla
y anymore. Oh no. She will constantly grab for fingers and hands in order to pull herself up and start walking. The biggest problem with this is that she will start walking while I'm still sitting on the floor holding her hands. It's very hard to get off the floor with a knee as messed up as mine and baby hands in mine.The girl also waves like a rock star. We walk through the grocery store (or various other places) and she's waving her arm back and forth. Picture her holding her hand up like she was going to be sworn in and then waving it from side to side. Very beauty queen. People in the grocery store love her though. They all think she's waving at them.
Mady is extremely close to being a true crawler. She gets on her hands and knees. She can walk her hands forward until she is almost lying on her tummy and then walk herself back to sitting. She's just had a terrible time figuring out how to use those legs. This week she has started trying to move them a tiny bit. It won't be long before she's got it figured out though.
On Sunday we then celebrated Easter. Mady looked beautiful in her little purple Easter dress. Luke's sisters and their families came over to the house for dinner and an egg hunt. If you've ever watched an 18 month old, 10 month old, and 8 month old try to figure out an egg hunt, you'll know it's interesting. It took them a few minutes but I think all of them figured out what they were supposed to be doing. Abd'Allah even figured out that some of the eggs had something in them and some didn't. He started shaking the eggs and only taking ones that had stuff in them. Mady even figured out that she was supposed to pick the eggs up and put them in her basket. She got so excited about it that at one point she tried to pick up two eggs at once. This was only a problem because in order for her to keep walking, she needed her hands to hold someone's fingers. So cute watching her try to figure it out.
On a side note, Luke just got a promotion. We're really excited about it. He'll be an assistant at another branch. The only thing we don't like is that it's at Phoenix's 2nd airport. His hours will be more varied and he won't have every weekend off like at a regular branch. We're hoping they will be able to work it out that he can have every Sunday off, but that won't be for the first few weeks. So wish him luck!
