A few days ago, you passed the seven month mark. Of course, like always, we can hardly believe you've been with us for seven months already. Simultaneously, like always, we can hardly believe you haven't always been with us! Here are some things you've been up to this month.
Mostly, you've been working on movement. It's been fascinating to watch you tackle this task, as you've gone about it very differently than your brother did. You seem to want to master each individual part of crawling, and then to master every possible movement combination, before finally putting them all together. You've mastered going to a crawling position from sitting and vice versa. You can easily scoot backwards, much to your frustration. And, this weekend, while we were at the beach, you took your first real crawling steps! You saw something you wanted and took off in hot pursuit...only to realize a few seconds later that you were actually crawling, at which point you collapsed into another favorite pose - the cobra.
You have places to go and people to see and you want to get there very badly. You've repeated your crawling steps a few more times since this weekend and we know it's just a matter of time until you really master it. As much as we thought we wanted a late-crawling second child, after experiencing an early-crawling first, we can't help but root you on. It's inspiring to see your determination to master a new skill. Today, when we were out and about, you wowed the moms of a couple of much-larger 9-month-olds with your zeal to get going.
You still get most of your calories from Mommy, along with a few here and there from pureed fruits and veggies. We've had to cut way back on any kind of cereal, as you have a tendency to get plugged up, if you know what I mean. So far, you love pureed apple, pear, blueberry, and apricot. You haven't shown much interest in veggies yet, and have quite the love-hate (mostly hate, honestly) relationship with avocado. You seem to be growing well and have been remarkably healthy lately (insert knocking on wood here). Let's keep that up, shall we?
On the sleep front, you're holding steady for the most part. You go to bed between 7 and 7:30 pm, at the same time as your brother. For this, we say thank you a million times, as having the evenings to ourselves gives your mommies some much needed recharging time. You usually wake up between midnight and 1 am to eat, and then again between 5 and 6 am. This is pretty doable for Mommy, although she'd prefer it if you could just wake up once - or just sleep all the way through, for that matter. You usually do wake up several other times throughout the night and need your binky to be reinserted, which is Mama's job and sometimes has her feeling like a jack-in-the box!
Let's see, other things - you will sit and play with your toys for longish periods (10-15 minutes) and this is a wonderful thing. You can transfer a toy from hand to hand and seem happy to play with just about anything at this point - baby toys, toy trucks, measuring cups, shoes, stuffed animals, you name it. Everything fascinates you.
Baby Talia (yes, we still call you that), you are just a lovely, wonderful, joyful baby. People are always asking us if you're always so happy and mellow and we say yes, generally. You love to be snuggled and tickled and you also have a lovely ability to play on your own. Who could ask for anything more?
We couldn't love you any more if we tried.
With all our love and then some,
Mama and Mommy
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