Finding the Forseters: Dagny at 8 Months

Before Dagny turns nine months next week, here's what she has been up to in her eighth month!

She's pretty expressive and lights up when she sees me, Dan, or her big brother.

We're working on her people food skills. She enjoys being spoon fed just about anything (baby food, spaghetti meat sauce, yogurt, etc.) but is pickier about her finger foods. She does adore carbs--pumpkin waffles, sweet potato fries, challah french toast--so at least we know she's related to us! She's pretty good about trying new things...but after four or five pieces of a novel food, she tends to be all set. Here she is at The Local Table when we went out to lunch with some friends.

By 8 months, I'm beginning to get the hang of dressing a girl. Here she is debuting a denim dress and some tights. When I picked her up at school that afternoon, I noticed her onesie was now snapped over his tights instead of under as I had dressed her that morning. Her teachers said that it helps keep the tights up if the onesie is over it...genius!

She loves stuffed animals, much like her cousin Natalie, and Finley's tiger is one of her faves.

And just like her big brother, Dagny LOVES her lovies. Rocky Raccoon and Hops (the pink bunny) are always tucked right under or next to her as she sleeps. I snapped this photo so that years from now when these lovies are slightly different colors and worn on all edges, I can show her how their love affair began.

She rarely slept on us except for when she was really tiny, but one weekend when she was sick with a fever and an ear infection, she passed right out on me for over an hour. Thank goodness I had my phone and the TV remote handy.

We feel like Dagny isn't as stroller-trained as Finley was at her age, so we are trying to take more family walks around our neighborhood and last weekend she was bundled up from top to bottom and the overall look was pretty hysterical. But she had a great time in the stroller so who cares!