Evelyn Clara: 8 months old

Evie is 8 months old today, I can't even believe it! She is the most amazing little girl, every day she makes us laugh and we are so surprised by how quick she learns and grows. Evie is about 50/50 between army crawling and regular crawling these days, she often starts out in a regular crawl towards something she wants, then at the  end drops to army crawling- it's like her sprint to the finish. :) She is pulling to stand on EVERYTHING, climbing all the time, and she's been cruising the furniture for about two weeks now. Her balance is improving daily, she can stand while holding on with just one hand, and has mastered getting down from standing without falling.
Evie's eating more and more table food these days, she's just like daddy and loves her bread! :) When we go out she sits in the high chair and eats bits of whatever we have just like a big girl- you'd be surprised how well she does since we still don't have any teeth! Her current favorite snack is yogurt melts, and I think her favorite food right now is peaches. We started yogurt and cheese with Evie a couple weeks ago- she loves yogurt (especially peach!), but can't really be bothered with cheese. It's actually the first food I've seen her NOT be interested in, she eats pretty much everything we give her. We'll probably start meat in another month or so.
Evie's new favorite toys are definitely books- mostly because she learned how to turn the pages now. She will lay on the floor with a book for a good 20 minutes or so and just turn the pages back and forth over and over. She especially likes her "Happy Baby Colors" book, I think because it has so many smiling babies in it and she LOVES to look at pictures of other babies.
Evie is becoming a little social butterfly with her other baby friends, she gets very smiley and chatty whenever there's another baby around and she wants to get down and play. She's just starting to show a little bit of stranger anxiety with adults she doesn't know, but if you give her 15-20 minutes, she warms up to pretty much everyone. :)
As you can see above, our photo shoots are getting more and more difficult- she was obsessed with the sticker this time around and I couldn't get a decent photo without her crinkling it. And most of our photo shoot went a little something like this....

I don't know how people do this every single month and keep the photos so consistent!! We tried her sitting up, but that was even worse, she kept crawling away. We'll see how next month goes! ;)