- is 7 months
- loves carrots
- started eating Puffs a few weeks ago and loves them. Strawberry Apple flavor.
- gagged at the first taste of homemade squash and mashed potatoes
- also gagged at the first taste of apple sauce
- still nurses in the morning and sometimes in the wee hours of the morning.
- is currently going through another growth spurt and is signaling so by waking up around three a.m. lately. And that is with a cereal bottle before bed.
- still loves her fingers. Her best self soothing method. That and with her other hand brings her blankie up to her face and just holds it there.
- still wearing lots of her 3 month old onesies and some new 3-6 month clothes too. She is our sweet string bean. Long and skinny. People have been commenting lately about how small she is for her age. To us, she seems so much bigger, but I guess compared to some babies she is definitely on the smaller side.
- She still has some cute chubby rolls on her thighs, but that’s about it for rolls. String bean.
- Does not mind wearing bows and headbands. Grandparents, however, tell me that she, in fact, does not like wearing them and promptly pulls them off of her when they see her - smile.
- Also does not mind wearing shoes or sandals. To her, they are just something extra she can chew on (smile).
- Loves reading her board books - as long as she has one we are reading and another she can be chewing on while we read.
- Sometimes still fights sleep at night. But then surprises us when she is fighting it and then we just put her in her bed and she falls right to sleep...sometimes I think I want to rock her to sleep more than she actually wants/needs me to rock her to sleep.
- Notice my foot in the bottom of this photo trying to stop her from crawling right off the chair.
- Crawls like crazy. Especially fast when she is headed to henry’s bowl, or when Grandma Rose shows up in the afternoon to see her. If she is on the floor playing she quickly crawls to greet her.
- Has gotten better when she’s at the gym daycare. Now that she can sit on the floor and play, I think she has realized how much fun it is to play with all the toys!
- would choose an iphone or ipad to play with over any other toy. every time.
- Still loves to feel surfaces and scratch them with her nails.
- Says “Da-Da-Da.” And squeals when she sees Henry, “EEEeeeee!”
- Has not been blowing raspberries as much lately, but has replaced it with lots of babble. I think she is going to be a chatty cathy - and I can’t wait!
- Smiles all the time now. I love it. Especially when I pick her up in the afternoons and she greets me at the door with a smile in excitement to see me.
- Is pulling up on things and standing on both feet. This girl is ready to move.
- Sits on her play mat and plays and plays now...Well, chews and chews on her toys, really, but it’s amazing to us how interested she is in playing these days.
- Whines and sometimes cries when I leave the room lately. It breaks my heart but also makes me feel pretty darn special too.
- Has the softest best smelling hair. And it’s actually grown out quite a bit recently. I still think she will have curls like her papa, but I guess we will wait and see.
- Loves bath time but after bath ritual of lotion, diaper, dressing and combing is not her favorite. She just does not like to lay that long. Squirmy worm.
- Had her first restaurant dining experience in Fort Worth a couple weeks ago and did so amazingly great! She sat in a high chair and played and was absolutely mesmerized by looking at all the people and other kids talking and eating.
- Also had her first experience at the Brownwood Reunion fair. She was so very pleasant the entire time. Again, I think she is just so mesmerized by people watching and loves all the sounds and sights.
- Stayed in her first hotel this past month. Did very well considering it was not home and her normal bed. She slept between Adam and I and solidified the fact that we need a king size bed at home.
- Still no teeth. Or even signs of teeth. We go through bouts of lots of drool and then hardly any drool. But no teeth. Just a sweet gummy smile :)
- Does NOT like having her face wiped down after a meal. Carrots can be up her nose, and she will be happy as a clam. As soon as the damp paper towel even touches her, we have a melt down.
- Is seven months and it feels like she was just three months yesterday.
It's now hitting me how fast this really goes. I think it's because for me it seems like she changes so much just from one month to the next. Every milestone just comes so fast. It's absolutely the most fun experience and just keeps getting better. A sweet friend of mine text me a lot in the early weeks promising that it would get better and better. She was so right. It has.
Happy seven months, sweet Ellis Chandler Rose.