7 Months Old-April 9, 2012

Another month has gone by and in 5 months you will be 1 year old!!!  Today, on your 7 month birthday, you held your own bottle for the first time!  You were laying so sweet in your bummzie chair and I took you a bottle and you just held it and took the whole thing!  You don't get bottles very often, but you do well with them when you do!

I'll just recap this month with highlights!  We have been busy and we have enjoyed you so much this month!  You have really developed a personality this past month and have grown so much!

Highlights:

• You continue to roll EVERYWHERE!
• You are in the beginning stages of crawling.  You get up on all 4s and then plot back down on your tummy!
• You enjoy our morning walk up town in your stroller.  You sleep the whole time.  It's something about the car and the stroller that put you to sleep in seconds!
• You LOVE bath time!  You now think you need to sit straight up in your tub.....I have to pull you back down to a laying position most times to wash your hair.  The whole time you are in the tub you want to chew on your rubber ducky....go figure!
• You sit up on your own still!
• You still only sleep in your crib for half the night. I allow myself 2 times to get up with you....and after the second time, I'm done.  This is still a battle I don't choose to fight right now.  We all need sleep!
• You LOVE being outside!  Your swing set is going to be the best thing we ever got you!
• You ADORE your Daddy!  You light up when he gets home every day! 
• You LOVE baby food.  So far you have eaten everything we've given you.  You didn't prefer apples the first time, but you like them now!
• You CRY hysterically when I leave the room, even for 1 second.  The second I walk back around the corner in eye view of you, you smile.  Even when I try to take a shower, I put you in the walker.  The time I shut the shower curtain you scream until I get out and then you smile.  I have to admit, I like you being a Mommy's girl!
• You are more than obsessed with the dogs now.  You want to reach out and grab them.  They are unsure of this!  I am trying to teach you to be gentle but you've got a long way to go! Lulu doesn't hang around long enough for you to touch her....but poor Elsa! 
• You have started waking up around 7 every morning to eat.  Stay awake until 10 and then you usually nap on our walk.  We have lunch, play, and take our afternoon nap together.  Cook dinner, play some more, bed time is still around 9!  Whew!  You wear me out most days now because we have to constantly switch activities to keep you content!
• You are wanting to crawl sooo bad!  You get up on all 4's and rock back and forth and then fall to your stomach!  I'm not ready for this crawling thing.  Although, it may make me lose some weight and put me below my pre-pregnancy weight that I have been stuck on for eons now!
• You are curious about the computer and ipad.  You think you need to chew on them!
• You have tasted the dog bone.  I turned my head for a second one day and when I looked back around, you had rolled to the other side of the rug and had the dog bone in your mouth.  Your Daddy wigged out, but with as curious as you are....I'm sure when you start crawling and walking you'll be eating dog food before all is said and done.
• You talk....ahhhh, oooohhhhhh, tatatata are your favorite sounds.
• You have learned to chew on your lips.
• You have learned to spit....and spit on everything when you do.
• You drool EVERYWHERE! I keep waiting on a tooth, but still none!

Our major event his month was your first bruise!  We have become safety police now!  You are just in to EVERYTHING already....I can't imagine when you are truly considered mobile! 


This next month should be full of even more surprises!  We love you to the moon and back our princess!