Everything Eliana: 7 Months!

Didn't I JUST post your 6 month post!? I am really feelng like time is slipping me by...and I'm not a fan! I told my students that it was your 7 month birthday - and one of my kids goes, in 5 months she'll turn 1! I just can't believe I'll be planning your first birthday soon! Oh sweet girl, it just seems impossible!

So, You are definetly crawling! Okay, up on your knees you can do it - but you're slower at it so you tend to drop and go back to army crawling so you can get to your destination faster! But you can go any direction you feel! You just recently discovered that there is a lot more floor than what is just by you! You found the other half of our living room, and just today you discovered the kitchen! You are a pro at sitting up now too! 

 You are in size 3 diapers! And you are pretty much wearing 6 month clothing. You still wear some 3-6 month clothing, and if it's used clothing you can wear some 9 month - but it's pretty big on you.

You have had more food now! You have had carrots, sweet potatos, bananas, apples, prunes, rice cereal, and oatmeal! Your favorite is bananas and sweet potatos! You had peas for the first time tonight and you did not like them! You are also still eating bottles. You have 4 ounce bottles at daycare, 6 ounce bottles at home, and one 8 ounce bottle right before bed!

You just started to sleep through the night again. The past 3 nights you have gone to bed later (9:30 or 10) and slept through the entire night! Of course, tonight you went back to bed at 8:00 - so you might wake up again!

Your daily routine is pretty predictable! Which I love! We wake up around 6-6:15. You feed yourself a bottle while I shower. You hang out in the bathroom, typically crawling all over the place, while I get ready for the day. At about 6:50 you get a diaper change and you get dressed for the day. Then you play in the living room while I get dressed and finish getting ready! We go and say goodbye to daddy at 7, and we're in the car and headed for Garnett by 7:03! :)

You typically take a nap on the way to Garnett. Then we get to Jodi's and you're just so happy! At Jodi's you eat cereal and fruit for breakfast around 9, a bottle around 11:30, you nap from 12:30 to 3:00, have a bottle at 3:15, and I come to get you at 3:45. In between all that eating and sleeping you play on the floor and play in the walker!

On the way back to Garnett you typically had been sleeping; but lately you just sit back there and talk and chew on your foot! :) When we get home we play and hang out, then you eat some fruit, vegetable, and oatmeal at 5:30. Then you typically take a 30 min nap! Then we play the rest of the night. I barely sit anywhere but the floor in the evening because I want to spend time with you! Then at 8, 8:30, or 9 you go to bed! :)

You are waving hi/bye!! Can you believe it!? You started at daycare when they would say hi/bye to the cars that drove by. Now you do it to us too! You waved bye to me this morning when I left you at Jodi's!

You passed out on the floor while playing the other night!

If we are ever in the same room as you, you whine and crawl over to us trying to get us to pick you up! Tonight I was frosting cookies and you were practically wrapped around my ankle! You had both fists full of my pants and your body was wrapped around them!

Your daddy and I can't get over how cute you are! You love other kids and just always want to play with them!

You are just growing like a weed! I CANNOT decide what you should be for Halloween...it is so difficult to decide, but we will! No matter what, I am sure you'll be just adorable!

We love you very much Little Girl,

Mommy and Daddy