A portrait of Elizabeth at 7 months:
- She is super active, throwing herself all over and trying desperately to figure out how to crawl and pull herself up on objects. On the day she turned 7 months old she started going to sitting from lying down by going up on all fours first. As of her Sunday 7 month mark she could scoot herself forward a few inches or a foot to get a toy but wasn't actually crawling. Getting her dressed or even changing her diaper has become a wrestling match because she won't stay on her back.
- Most nights she gets up twice to eat. Half of the time she goes right back down and the other half of the times are difficult. She still nurses herself to sleep sometimes (esp if she is really tired) but often she declares that she is done nursing before she is asleep and so I just put her to bed. Sometimes she then fusses for a bit and gets herself to sleep. Other times she needs me to stand there rubbing her back until she falls asleep and screams bloody murder nonstop if I leave.
- She loves finger foods. She still fights us to try to get the spoon when we feed her baby food, but anything she can eat on her own is a winner. And she now gets more of the puffs and yogurt melts in her mouth than down her chair, although just barely.
- She loves grace at dinner and is remarkably attentive at church. I have no idea.
- She doesn't babble very much at all. She mostly just shrieks or pants when she wants to express herself, but no intonations that I've picked up on.
- She is developing a sense of humor. She thought it was hilarious the other day when I sucked on her pacifier to clean it off. That actually suggests to me a lot of complex thought because she had to have figured out that it was odd for an adult to have a pacifier in her mouth. Unfortunately she also thinks that pulling Nicholas' hair is funny and we are having trouble convincing her that it isn't.
- It is often a real challenge to get her to nurse, at least more than just a quick snack. She wants to be doing things and moving and looking around.
- She still loves chewing on everything.
- She still doesn't have a nap schedule. She has finally at least gotten to usually napping twice a day, which is what most babies do, but the times of day and lengths have no consistency. Most of her home naps are still taken in her carseat, simply because we're always on the go on days we're home, especially since we can't even try to plan around a nap schedule.
- She finally had her 6-month checkup 1 day after she turned 7 months old, so here are her stats: 17lbs 6 oz and 26.5 inches. She has hung out right around the 50th percentile since she was born.
Contemplating world domination:
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