Sweet Zara is 8+ months old.  She is so much fun and her personality seems to arrive more daily.  This has been a hot summer and we have spent many afternoons in our backyard baby pool.  Zara loves to crawl around, play with her toys, get in and out of the pool, and splash the water with her hands.  Her baby hands are getting stronger and her fine motor skills are developing beautifully.  Just the other day she figured out how to use her fingers to pick up food and now that is how she wants to eat.  She does not want to be spoon fed by mommy or papa but instead wants to try and feed herself.  Another fine example of what a driven little individual she is.  I have a feeling that she will be walking by the time she is 9 months old, she is pulling herself up on furniture and even balancing for a few moments on her feet.  She is moving faster on her hands and knees crawling around everywhere and loves swinging at the park more than ever, she giggles as she swings and cries when I take her out.  Zara has 3 teeth, two on the bottom and one on the top and is working on that fourth top tooth.  Sweet Zara is going to have a rude awakening in a couple of weeks when I go back to work.  She is quite clingy with me right now and with all this teething has been nursing A LOT.  I planned on trying to feed her boobie juice less during the day so that she and I can get used to it but I do not see that happening.  I am her mama and I have the juice and when I am not home she will figure it out.  She is eating 3 meals a day so she will not be hungry.  I have also grown quite attached to my sweet baby Zara.  I think it is going to be harder going back to work this time than it was when she was 4 months old and it will probably get harder every year until she is at school with me.  I feel so blessed to have had such a delightful little human come through me.  She is my little tiger cub and I love to give her hugs and kisses.