Erica’s now 8 months old, and has 6 swim lessons under her diaper.  There’s a game similar to “Ring around the rosie” where you pick an animal or fish, and you go with your baby into the middle of the circle.  The others then swim around you singing “there’s a (duck, marlin, shark, etc) in the middle and she can’t get out… what is she going to do?”  At that point you say “bubbles!” and submerge your baby under to escape the ring.  Clever.

When it was Erica’s turn, Evonne said “she’s a Tilapia!”  Teresa looked puzzled… obviously it was a new one for her. 

So life at 8 months… wow, 2/3 of the way to a year.  She’s still doing raspberries, more complex babbling “mah-mah, bah-bah”, and her manual dexterity is really improving- grabbing and reaching for objects with accuracy.  She can pretty much sit up and stay stable without too much worry, although we bought some foam pieces to lay on our rug from Toy’s R us.  It’s like 4 giant puzzle pieces that fit together.  It’s great because she can spit up, and it’s easy to wipe up. 

As for culinary exposure- yams, chicken, potato, peas, spinach, applies, pears, blueberries, and congee.  

I’m hungry now…