8 months

Picture taken at 7 months

Cecily is 8 months today. One more month and she'll have been living on earth as long as she was in my belly!

I love this little girl. She is the happiest person in the family. She loves us each individually and shows us everyday with her babbling, squeals, smiles, laughter and excitement.

She has an incredible toothless smile. An incredible head of hair. And incredibly beautiful eyes. They still haven't turned brown! I will settle for hazel since they are obviously not blue. I still hope for my blue genes to be passed on to perhaps a future child? Maybe? Not announcing, just sayin.

Cecily has a contagious laugh. A hearty appetite. She tries to eat my face, my glasses, my hair, anything that she can get into her petite little hands. She's a very tactile little baby.

She is not crawling yet and I am perfectly content with this! Call me a bad mother for not wanting my child to "progress" but I don't want to have to vacuum every day yet! No kidding. Samuel crawled for about a week and then walked so I'm not worried. Actually, her temperament is a lot like Samuel's was at this age, progressing at about the same pace.

She's our little angel and growing up way too fast!

Cecily and our families newest addition, Owen. My brother and sister-in-law finally got their boy after having 3 girls. Yay for more boy cousins!

Can you tell Cecily doesn't know what to do with him? When I first held him she got very concerned and even showed signs of jealousy! She's 8 months old! Just more proof she's related to me. But when my sister Rose held him and I was holding her and she got very excited, ie, twirled her hands and feet and grunted while watching him. I think she thought he was a little pet or something.