8 Months

Ellen has reached 8 months. Here are her developments:

1. She is excellent at sitting now. 

2. She can effectively get anywhere on the floor through rolling and scooting backwards. She cannot crawl yet, but she often gets up on her hands and knees and rocks back and forth. 

3. She has a happy scream that is very loud. I think she typically does it when she is bored.

4. She is developing more of a sense of humor-she likes to be tickled, thrown in the air, and she likes to laugh when Summer is laughing. 

5. She has started to develop an awareness of strangers-shown mostly through staring at them.