Blog | Seven Months
Our little munchkin is seven months old today — hard to believe! She is quite the wiggly one these days and practically oozes personality. Hearing her laugh is one of my favorite things.
Based on home measurements, Brianna weighs ~15 lbs. and is ~26.75″ long. She seems to more or less follow the sizing applied to baby clothes, which is interesting since everyone kept telling me she would be in 12 month clothes by now. Not my sweet pea! She can even still wear some 3 month clothes.
Accomplishments to date include:
*rolling from her back to her tummy – this rarely occurs and mostly only happens in her crib at night (no, she is not playing in this picture, she is asleep);
*spinning/rotating while on her tummy – she will wiggle until she moves in circles (I am told this is a precursor to crawling);
*starting to reach and try to move towards objects that are out of reach;
*eating solid food while sitting (more or less) in her chair – rice cereal, whole grain cereal, sweet potatoes, and pumpkin to date, no complaints so far;
*increased talking – lots of da-da-da-da, with the ocassional ba and ma thrown in for good measure;
*sitting up right – I would say she is 90% stable (she rarely pitches herself backwards anymore);
*longer daycare naps – lately she has one nap about an hour long and a couple other naps between 25 and 45 minutes, so she is getting there;
*when home with me she naps three times – lately that includes a short (~50 min.) nap in the morning, a long (~2 hrs) nap in the afternoon, and a medium nap in the late afternoon;
*she goes to bed with little to no fuss and generally sleeps from 8PM to 7 or 8 AM – this is rarely straight through, but hopefully the trend of the last couple of nights will continue;
*amusing herself for relatively long periods of time – if well rested and fed, she can go 20-30 minutes in her exersaucer or her pack-n-play with little interaction from us;
*starting to turn book pages on purpose;
*has a serious fascination with my keyboard – she wants to “type” too;
*just starting to sit in her stroller without the car seat;
*loves to beep the horn and move the zippy widgets on her exersaucer;
*fascinated by patty-cake and peek-a-boo
*would really rather you not wipe her face or change her clothes;
*loves to splash in the bathtub, but shows little interest in bath toys;
*has pet both kitties, although Leia might argue it was more of a fur grabbing event;
*gnaws/sucks on everything, particularly her fingers – showing a stronger preference for her thumb these days
*blows raspberries
