How is it possible that you are already seven months old? Somebody asked me how old you were at church this morning and the question kind of caught me by surprise. You are over halfway to your birthday; you are more big girl than baby. Some days I love your new found independence and other days it makes me want to cry.
You still only weigh 15 pounds {Ella was 17 lbs 2 oz} and are 26 inches long {Ella was 27}. You’re still in the 20th % for weight and 95th % for height! Dr. Darby was impressed with your motor skills this month and gave us the go ahead for table food. You aren’t sure what you think about all that texture just yet, but you’re slowly getting the hang of it.
You love to eat. You’ve tried apples, bananas, pears, peaches, blueberries, raspberries, plums, carrots, squash, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, tomatoes, green beans, peas, oatmeal, biscuits, muffins and apple juice. You love to suck on your sister’s suckers after dance class and you like to steal her sippy cups. I think we need to get your very own cup this week and let you practice drinking juice and water. This morning, I let you sit in our worship service with me and you were eating banana puffs, hand over fist.
This month you learned to crawl. I don’t mean that cute baby scooting where you can only go backwards. I mean, you can crawl from the front door to the back door in the time it takes me to turn around. I find myself saying, “has anybody seen Sophie?” And the response is always something like, “She’s under the table”, “behind the door” or “stealing my bunny!”. You are so good at it and your speed is quite impressive.
You are so close to pulling up. You get up so high on your knees to reach things and when you’re on all fours you push up onto your legs. I think if you can ever coordinate those efforts, you’ll be giving us a run for our money! We have always said that you are going to be the one who tests us… I’ll guess we’re about to find out.
You love to bounce, whether you’re on your knees, in your walker or in our lap. If me or your daddy say “Jumpy, Jump” you start rocking back and forth and bouncing wherever you are. It makes you so happy and always gets big smiles. You love sitting in your crib with lots of toys and your big sister reading to you. You LOVE bath time. I can put you in the tub with a few inches of water and some toys and you will play for an hour. You come out all pruny and shivering, but with a big fat smile on her house!
You have started waving this week and it is so precious. You only do it with your right hand and up until today, you never did it when we asked you. Today, when I tried to get you to wave, you did it on command AND repeated it back to us. Daddy didn’t believe me at first, but since you’ve done it pretty much non-stop since then and I finally caught you on video, we’re declaring “bye-bye” your first word – at seven months. You say it so quietly, almost a whisper. Can you say adorable?
You are growing up TOO fast.
