Our little princess is 7 months old.

And it doesn't seem like it was that long ago that she was born! Time is flying too fast! The weekends just zoom by and I feel like we live in our weekends and try to fast forward through our weeks to get to the weekends when we can spend time together as a family. I am so looking forward to my summer vacation - a whole week off :) And then in january - 2 weeks off!

At 7 monhts old...

*Laura pulls to a standing position with ease.

*Once she is up, she's still very wobbly.

*She eats: peas, sweet potatoes (Her favorite!), banana, apples/applesauce, cantaloupe, pears, rice cereal, oatmeal, avacado...oh, and she tried a couple bites of carrot last night. I think next we'll try broccoli.

*She said "ma-ma" today! I'm sure she doesn't know ~what~ she's saying, but she said it ...over and over and over again. Lots of times it sounded like "mom's mams" so maybe she's not talking about me at all and is instead talking about her food? ha ha ha!

*She says "ba ba ba ba" all the time... comes out sounding like "bob" quite often. We'd like to know who Bob is... Maybe it's her duck?

*She has definitely entered the "I want my mommy" phase. She'll whine if I'm in sight, but she's not in my arms. Could be playing totally content on the floor and then if I walk by - bam. Whine for mommy. Whines when I leave her at daycare too.

*She still nurses a lot :) Morning, after work, as she falls to sleep, and again two more times in the night. Of course, during the weekends she nurses during the day too.

*She's been consistently taking just about 12 ounce a day at daycare... yeah, just 12 ounces. Same she's taken for a long time! We used to send four 3 ounce bottles, but then switched that to four 4 ounce bottles and most days she was just taking the three bottles - so now I send three 4 ounce bottles and let Lynne defrost a bag of milk if she wants a 4th bottle. Of course, some days she doesn't even take the full 12 ounces.

*She gives the best hugs! She'll just lean her head on your shoulder. She doesn't wrap her amrs around and cling for the hug, but you can definitely tell she's giving hugs :)

*She just got her first pass port ... for the cruise in January.

*She fits into a few of her 6 month outfits still, but is wearing a lot of 9 and 12 month summer clothes. I think they fit well because there aren't sleeves and pant legs to be too long.

*She wears a size 1 shoe still! Yeah, she's got little feet.

*She is still in her size medium diapers... even on the smallest setting for some of them! We had to take a short break from cloth (for a few weeks) because she had some nasty rash from them, but we got that straightened out and she's back in cloth by day, sposies by night.

*Her hair is growing in... you can see the new really light blonde stuff coming in under the long whispies she's got. ... still has a big old bald spot on the back though!

*She used to like wearing hats (or at least not bother with them) but yesterday she started taking them off ... guess that means more sunscreen now.

*She still scooches backwards when on her tummy. She can turn herself around to face the direction she wants to go, but then gets MAD when she goes backwards.

*She decided she likes her pacifier again for naps and falling asleep. She had stopped using it for a few weeks, but it's back again.

*No two nights are the same as far as sleep goes. Typical night now is in bed at 6:30-7pm. sometimes I get her up to nurse her before I go to bed. that buys me a few hours of solid sleep at the start of the night. She sometimes goes 4 hours. Other times it's just 2 hours. I feed her between 2-3 times each night. Twice most nights.


...I have pictures from today, but can't post them yet. Richie reformatted our computer today and we have to reload my photo editing software on before I can do more. I did take some though :) Stay tuned...