Eight Months

Check out the big girl!

Since last month's update, she's learned how to clap, can hold her own bottle, is still working on the whole crawling gig, likes to pull up on fingers (but not yet on furniture) and loves standing up.

"Nice Sadie"

She is so much fun these days. Lots of quirky parts to her personality have popped up recently: loves when Mommy slurps tea, flaps her arm when she has to burp, shakes her head furiously (but it doesn't always mean no...she just figured out she can do it so far), talks to herself LOUDLY, makes fish faces and old-lady-with-no teeth-faces.... the list goes on and on!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

With a name like Shannon Michaela McGee, you're pretty much expected to get all decked out for St. Paddy's, right?

Making her Daddy proud...

And speaking of Daddy, look at this clever dinner idea that he cooked up!

A wee little picture to leave you with... because while the smile is too cute not to post, the quality of the photo is horrible!

Oh, Addie!

Monica, Steve and this little cutie pie stopped by for a visit on Sunday. It was so fun to see how much bigger she was than the last time we saw her at Christmas.

The girls had fun checking each other out. Actually, I think that Addie was most interested in Spike ("what IS that thing?") and Shannon wanted to taste Addie's fingers, Addie's toys, Addie's blanket, etc in addition to just looking at her.

Baby swap!

Thanks for coming, Silvestros!

Latest Trick... Lunging

Watch out, world... Shannon has figured out that she can get stuff that is out of her sitting reach by lunging for it. Here's what it looks like:

She's also starting to pull up. I think our world is about to change drastically!

A Grand(parent) Week

It started with breakfast with Grandma and Grandpa...

...and ended with a long-weekend visit from Grammy.

(It was also a week of new pink things...)

Seven Months

Look, Mom, no chair!

At seven months, here's what Miss Shannon is up to...


--Her hair has gotten long enough for us to do this! (Think she'll forgive us for this style when she's older?) And its getting curly. When she gets out of the bathtub she's got a whole head of curls.

--All sort of new foods this month... bananas, apples, sweet potatoes, peas, oatmeal, rice cereal. Think we're going to try avocados in a foodbag next.

--At meal time, she gets her own spoon and control over a bottle of water (I'll have to post later about the cool handles and spouts that allow you to change from a bottle to sippy cup gradually.) In other news, our kitchen floor is getting more things thrown on it, namely spoons and bottles of water.

--She is a master sitter. She can play, look around, reach for things, catch herself... She's just starting to eye the toys out of reach and you can see her beginning to think about lunging for them.


--No crawling yet but we have added "babyproof the house" to our to-do list. On her belly, she can hold her chest up, airplane with her arms and legs, and spin herself around so she can face all directions. On her back, she's gotten good at arching up onto her shoulders and pushing with her feet.

--She's quite the dancer. Here she is pictured on one of her two favorite stages (the other one is her changing table...with the spotlight!). She loves bouncing along to the Juno soundtrack, regrets her once-favorite jam "Low" being way overplayed now, and also is partial to the little tune her Elmo puppet sings.


--We love this cutie pie!

Happy Valentine's Day!