jade's new tricks #2

We LOVE to watch jade grow and learn new tricks every day. At 8.5 months, she's eating solids three times a day, crawls everywhere, tries to walk all the time with the help of walls and tables; she even figured out how to climb up the stairs all by herself!!

#1. She started going to bed at 8!!!! OMG can we tell you how happy we are?!! We actually have our life back!!! The first night she did that, we didn't know what to do with our free time :-) We ended up watching a movie In the Next Three Days. It was AWESOME!! She's been doing that for a couple weeks now and we've been so busy enjoying our evenings. Thanks to Megan who stays home with her, we were able to have date nights with Mark and Callie a few times, go out to eat Chinese,  have Fondu and Majiang night at home and go to Naisi's brother's baptism :-)

 Sub Zero is awesome!! We went there after having a wing-eating competition at the best wing place in Springville. It was a tie, mostly because we ran out of money before stomach space :-)

Mark and Callie are getting addicted to Majiang!

Cheese Fondu is great. We did a chocolate one a few days ago, which is even better :-) John got me a surprise gift: a Chinese fondu pot!!

#2. Mommy and Jade loves going to the mall and walk around everyday since mommy's on a break from school!!

 #3. All of a sudden, jade has 4 teeth!! We were expecting the bottom 2 to come out first and we kept checking, but one morning John noticed the top 2 already came out!! It didn't bother her at all, thank goodness. But one of the bottom two seemed to bother her a little more. Beside Baby Orajel, daddy got all the teething toys off Amazon. Such a spoiled little princess. Her favorite is this raspberry binki :-)

#4. Solids. We are so blessed to have a baby that eats everything. So far, she's had bananas, carrots, butternut squash, sweet potatoes,and  apples. Her fav is mashed bananas. Mommy's too slow for her at feeding :-)

 Jade's first meal: carrot is in cooking :-) I love Babycook!

First time eating solids-carrots!

#5: She somehow learned to do this fish lip and she does it ALL the time now. John actually took some good pictures with the good camera. I'll have to make a separate post for it. It's so cute.

#6. She usually doesn't sit still while getting her nails cut. But this time she's actually enjoying it because daddy's doing a good job distracting her.

We love you, sweetheart!!