Hayden is 8 Months Old!

Happy 8 months, baby girl!

• She is approximately 17.0 lbs according to our bathroom scale.
• We are still in Size 3 diapers
• She sleeps soundly from 7pm to 7am - hooray!  She takes a 2 hour nap in the morning and in the afternoon.
• She eat 6 oz of breastmilk/formula mix, 4x's each day.  Just this week I started reducing the volume to ~5.5 oz.  She has started not finishing her bottle, probably because she is eating more solids.
• She eats 3 solid meals each day.  We've also incorporated finger foods and she does so well feeding herself!  A month ago she just pushed them around her tray and now she does pretty well picking them up and getting them in her mouth.
• Her biggest milestone this month is crawling!  She is a very efficient army crawler and is constantly moving.  The past 2 weeks she also started pushing up onto hands/knees and rocking back and forth.  "Real" crawling can't be far behind!
• No teeth yet.  Isaac had 4 teeth at 7.5 months.  Hmmm.
• Her hair is really growing in.  It's very light and just like Isaac's at this age.
• She laughs and smiles so much.  Still mostly at Isaac but more and more at Mom and Dad!
• Surprisingly, she has yet to miss a day of school for illness since she started school 2 months ago.  Isaac had a fever after his first 4 days of school when he was 6 months old.  Hayden has had a runny nose off and on but nothing worse.  We'll take it!
• She is so content just sitting on someones lap and looking around.  She stares at people with such intention sometimes it's actually a little creepy!  Ha!

Mommy Updates:

• I'm finally to my goal weight.  It took nearly twice as long as it did with Isaac, but I'm finally there!  Wahoo!
• Work is going great.  Of course I have days that I really miss the kids (I think it would be unhealthy if I didn't!) but overall it's been great to be back.  My new assignment is really fun and while I'm still on a steep learning curve, I'm getting more comfortable every day.  
• I'll be traveling to Los Angeles, Phoenix, Montana and Calgary in the next few months.  While I will miss my family like crazy, I'm excited for the adventure!  We are contemplating having all of us go to Los Angeles for a mini vacation after my couple days of work and perhaps have Bryce come to Calgary with me while grandparents watch the kids.  Stay tuned!
• I'm up to 7 miles for my long runs.  Frigid temperatures and lots of snow have prevented me from running outside lately so I haven't been able to ramp mileage.  I'm signing up the Marine Corps Marathon lottery and am also signed up for 3 half marathons this year.