8 months

She's mobile!  Yep, right around the 5th of October, we noticed that she was able to scoot herself around her room a little.  She's moving like an inchworm, scooting her legs up under her and then lunging forward.  A few weeks later, she switched to more of an army crawl.  She gets up on her hands and knee, rocks back and forth but hasn't figured out how to go anywhere from there.  I'm okay with her taking her time - not totally sure I'm ready for her to be that mobile.

As I wrote in a previous post, Ashley had her first plane ride this past month.  She did wonderful, never cried and hardly made a peep.  She got to meet a lot of my old college friends (and their babies) and check out my alma mater.

Ashley continues to make good progress with eating solid foods.  We put her high chair together so she's got a great place to enjoy her meals.  We've started giving her a few o's so that she can practice her pincher grasp.  Her face when she first tried the o's is hilarious!  She's gotten pretty good with them, even managing to put them in her mouth herself.  She's also practicing with a sippy cup.  She's got the basic concept of them down but isn't able to tip the cup up far enough to drink from it herself.  She's still young, though, and this is all for practice.  She was also holding her own bottle for awhile but recently decided that was too much work for her.