I have taken and uploaded Tara’s eight month picture, and made a flickr set of all her monthly pictures, and also went back into the archives to fill out all of Anna’s monthly pictures up to her 52-month picture (whew!).

Tara has yet another cold. This morning we went to Anna’s favorite, the Original Pancake House, where Tara behaved, but was mostly zoned the entire time. She achieved a milestone by sneezing out a good three-inch booger on at least two occasions.

Tara also made her first sign, the grasping motion for “milk.” Jen has been showing her the sign when she nurses her, and today I noticed that Tara did the sign when I was carrying her off to have her diaper changed and had her leaned back as we passed Jennifer. After the diaper change, she fussed and again made the sign when we saw Jen. We did signs with Anna, but she didn’t start signing back to us until about 11 months, and had pretty much abandoned the signs by 20 months or so when her verbal vocabulary outpaced her signing vocabulary.