7 Months!

Good grief! My baby girl is 7 months old! We are the downhill to her first birthday, it's just amazing.  She has brought of 7 months of joy, smiles, diapers, laughs, milk, mishaps, discoveries, learning, and sleeplessness - or in a nutshell, the best 7 months of my life. Amazing how something, someone so small can pop on into your world and shake it all up!

 Our peanut, affectionately known around here as Shelby Pie, is full of curiosity. Here are some updates....

• ·         She loves all types of foods thus far! We have tried quite a few flavors, fruits, veggies, meats and combos and so far, she has enjoyed them all.
• ·         She sits like a champ and I can see her balance improving almost daily. She used to topple over if she reached for something, but now she can recover
• ·         She chews on everything. Less drool at the moment, but LOTS of chewing
• ·         She makes all kinds of sounds, but Maamamamam, dadada and hi are regulars
• ·         She loves making "raspberries." She often does them on my shoulder, but Jack caught her doing them on her own arm this morning. Hee hee
• ·         She gets very interested in buttons on clothing
• ·         If something has a tag, she finds it - clothes, blankets - you name it, she'll find it.
• ·         She can't keep her eyes off Dad when he enters the room
• ·         She is trying hard to sit up, but can't quite make it there. It is coming soon, I'm sure.
• ·         We have caught her on all fours, but we think she is still a little ways from crawling
• ·         She is still getting the real-deal milk. I have yet to send her to school with anything else, but I have tried Enfamil at home a handful of times. She seems to do fine with it.
• ·         She still goes to bed at 6:30/7 and wakes up 12 hours later at about the same time (with one feeding around 3)

I was a couple of days late in snapping pics and she was still waking up in some of them. We love you Shelby Clare! Here's to the next seven months!