7 months!

This month has been a month of lots of firsts for our sweet baby.  First time at the beach, first time at the lake, first real car trip. We are absolutely loving getting to experience all of these 'firsts' with her.  We are so smitten. Seriously smitten.  

weight/height: we didn't go to doctor this month, but she is growing like a weed :) 
size: she is in 6 and some 6-9 month clothes. I packed up her 3 month outfits and teared up a bit when I did it:(  she is wearing size 3 diapers during day and night.

nicknames: bean, beanie, monster, stinker, big girl, Sugar Bear (nana), Jo Jo (Pop) 

physical: she still has gorgeous blue eyes and long eyelashes.  her hair is sort of a strawberry blonde.  still just two teeth on bottom but we are convinced another is coming somewhere. she is chomping hard on anything she can get her hands on. 
eating: we have tried several new foods this month. we can now add to her list: squash, pears, green beans, acorn squash, zucchini and yogurt (who even knew they make baby yogurt?!) she LOVES pears. but really she just loves baby food. i am convinced she only takes part of her bottle because she knows I will make her cereal when she does that. I am still making her baby food and even managed to keep this up in FL and in MI. (*disclaimer- I do not think making baby food makes you a better mom or that store bought baby food is bad for the baby. I just actually enjoy making her food for her) she got a taste of her Daddy's key lime ice cream in FL and she got a taste of Papa's icing off of his cinnamon roll in MI:)  her appetite has decreased quite drastically this month, so I do what I can to get her to eat. 

yogurt?!

our deep freezer

sleeping: she still takes her nighttime bottle around 730-8 and then sleeps until 730-8. she followed this pretty well both in FL and in MI and we were impressed with her. white noise- it is magic. she will take a little nap in the morning wherever she happens to fall when she's tired:) and she naps in her crib for her afternoon nap. she now gets mad and fussy when she gets tired in the afternoon. 

bed.head.

play: oh my goodness so many fun new things! 

• she is reaching for everything she sees. if something is farther away she reaches as far as she can, sometimes pushing herself forward, or backward, to get it. 
• loves grabbing/pulling hair. hard. 
• she is doing great with 'tummy time' and pushes up with her arms. she has started to pull both her knees under her chest, we keep waiting for her to figure out this crawling thing. 
• she moves herself around in circles to get a toy or her paci. she is rolling from both sides and from back to stomach and stomach to back to get around. girl is on the move! gone are the days where you sit her down and fold laundry. last time I did that i put her on the blanket and came back and she was stuck between coffee table and couch. 
• she has always rolled her little feet around in circles when she is sitting. her music teacher comments on it every week. but now she is rolling her hands around too. it's the funniest thing. 
• she has become more vocal. she is starting to work on trying syllables. mostly BaBa and a few M's in there. Philip is working hard on the Da-Da:) 
• she now sits in a highchair when we go out and in the front of cart at grocery and stores. makes life much easier. 
• while in MI she discovered her shadow. it was the cutest thing ever watching her try to touch it and see it move when she moved. haha 
• she is laughing so much. it is the best thing in the world. 

 

 

 

first time down the slide:)