My girl's monthly update

The baby turned 8 months old this week. She has learned so much this past month. Her stranger anxiety is at an all time high (she particularly winces at men with facial hair). She has learned to wave, give high five and clap. She claps all the time. She has learned to eat many foods by scooping them up in her chubby little fingers. (I can't believe she is beginning to eat without my help! Just a month and a half ago she was solely having breast milk!) She half crawls and half scoots still. Now that she has figured out how to get from belly to bottom she can sometimes pull up on things. She is looking with interest at the steps...ut-oh! She is getting a little hair and cutting her 9th tooth. She can roll the ball back and forth. She loves to swing in the baby swings at the park. She is adorable to me.