7 months

7 months. 7.


I'm not really sure how it happened, but my sweet baby girl of 7 lbs. and 8 oz. wearing newborn onesies and fitting comfortably in my hands is now 20 lbs. even (as of 4-4-12) wearing 12-18 month clothes and is full of smiles and wiggles and no time to just sit in mama's lap. Her favorite food is a pear, banana, apple combo in oatmeal cereal, she nurses like it's going out of style, and she naps 2-3 times a day. We've mastered the morning nap at somewhere between an hour to two hours, with very little to no fussing beforehand. The afternoon nap or naps are a little trickier. Sometimes she get an hour in... other times she just cat naps in the afternoon. She sleeps 10-12+ hours every night and wakes up once or twice in that 12 hour span.


She has lots to "say" almost nonstop. We hear da-da, gee, gaa, ba-ba, ya-ya, and some other alien-like noises. She sits up like a big girl with almost 100% success... and has just started going from sitting to her tummy on her own to worm around a little. She can completely turn 360 degrees on her tummy and if she is on the hardwood floor she can back herself around to where she wants to go (and gets stuck under the furniture). Yesterday I set her down in one room and walked to the next and when I turned back to the room she was in, she was behind me. Hmmm... that's new.

She smiles at everyone at the postoffice, at Target, at church... as long as she is being held by mom or dad. She puts her arms up when she wants to be held, and I *think* she's signed "milk" to me a few times when she's hungry.

She does "so big" and "patty-cakes" when we ask... about 50% of the time. And sometimes she just does it when she feels like it. She claps all.the.time just because we smile and cheer when she does.

Her diapers are on the biggest rise with two notches in between... but it seems like she's already starting to wear off some of her sweet baby fat so we may have to make them smaller again.

Bath time is still a favorite, and she cries when we take her out before she thinks she's done chasing toys around. If she manages to get ahold of something and we take it away from her she starts crying too.

We've recently started trying a sippy-cup, but she isn't very successful yet.

She loves to be outside. Loves it.

She thinks her dad is hilarious.

She wants her mom for comfort.

And she is still our Angel Baby.