Jayna at 8 months: First tooth, scooching backwards, more signs

This last month has been momentous for Jayna--she's a new girl! We really no longer have a newborn on our hands and it kind of makes me a little sad. Jayna's first tooth is coming in, it's the bottom right one. Jayna is sitting very solidly and can go from sitting to her belly and then scooching, usually backwards. Jayna is eating all kinds of things but she LOVES to feed herself little finger foods. Jayna was constipated for the first time! :-( it was truly one of the saddest things I have ever seen. I could tell she needed to poop so I sat her on the toilet, she just cried and cried, then she'd rest on my shoulder , try and push, then cry a little more and then she would almost fall asleep. Then wake up and try and push some more. I felt like I was coaching her through labor because that's exactly the way I felt when I was in labor with Jasper---on the exact same toilet!

Chad went through the same thing with Jayna a few hours later and he had the same thoughts I did, about how it seemed like labor. We didn't talk about it until late that night but we both got a little sentimental thinking about how Jayna someday may go through labor and have her own children.

and finally, Jayna is consistently doing four signs now--she has been doing "milk" for over a month now, as well as "Mama" and now she does "more" and "eat". She won't do them on command but when she wants any of them she's VERY articulate about them and it's So exciting to see her communicate!

We've been doing night weening with Jayna, it's been great I've had much better sleep and Jayna has been sleeping longer stretches 4-5 hours. Chad left today to go play in Austin though so the next two nights we'll see how Jayna does....we had Chad holding her and soothing her back to sleep when she woke up, instead of me nursing her back to sleep. but it's just so much easier for me to nurse her back to sleep than to have to get up and walk her back to sleep.

Just some random thoughts...the final season of Battlestar Galactica has started!!!!
For the first episode we had gone over to Chris' place to pick up a huge, 42 inch HP television (it's a long story, but he's loaning it to us indefinetely) We didn't realize how much happier we would be with it until we got it. When we got it home Jasper said, "yeah...it's just medium huge"
We were watching our movies on a tiny 24 inch computer monitor....this is gigantic compared to that. Anyway, we decided to just stay at Chris' and watch Battlestar, it was SOOOOO good. SO good. Last week's we watched yesterday from scifi.com. It amazes me just how good this show really is, as soon as I hear the opening music I get unbelievably excited. Almost the same excited as we have been watching Lord of The Rings and Star Wars on the 42inch screen.

We've also just started watching the Sopranos....yes I know it was on for years and years and now it's over but we just never watched it. I'm kind of glad we're doing it now, I know all of the episodes are out there and we don't have to wait for anything the discs are readily available through netflix and we're really enjoying it.

ok, that's all the tv talk i can muster. I can't believe I just had enough time to write all that and that both kids stayed sleeping that whole time. WOW!