7 Months Old

Helen Grace turned seven months old on Christmas- what a joyous day! Here are some things that she is up to these days…

• She loves to give hugs and reach and grab for things.
• She will put her hands up when she wants you to pick her up.
• She has front two bottom teeth now. They have come about halfway up. She is drooling like crazy and wakes up randomly crying at night, so I expect some more soon.
• She can sit up very well but shows no interest in crawling. She wants to stand up or sit up all the time. She can stand up holding on to her activity table or coffee table.
• She is still working on swallowing water from the sippy cup, but she can handle it well.
• She is super chatty and friendly and seems to be pretty easy going.
• She is wearing 6-9 mos clothes although her feet are still tiny.
• She is getting more hair by the day, and it seems to be coming in blonde or light brown.
• She has been waving a lot this month but hasn’t done it in the last week or so.
• She is still working hard on blowing raspberries.
• She usually goes to bed between 7-8 p.m., but she is now getting up more routinely between 6-6:30 a.m., probably because that’s when she leaves on Mon, Tues, and Thurs to go to Grandma Jeanne’s. She will sometimes go back to sleep for an hour or so after a bottle, but more often than not she will stay awake for an hour and then give in for a nap.
• Her hair can finally hold an itty bitty bow- but just barely. It looks funny, like it’s floating on her head!
• I don’t have an official weight for her, but she is probably around 17-18 pounds, heavy enough that I am having a very difficult time heaving her car seat into the middle of the backseat!
• She got the second half of her flu shot this past week, so she is now done with shots until her one year appointment. YAY! This shot was so easy- we walked into the office with her in her car seat and went straight to the nurses’ station, I pulled up her pant leg, the nurse gave her the shot, she wailed for a sec and then caught her breath and stopped, and we walked right back out. Amazing. Wish it were always that easy!
• Helen Grace continues to be such a fun, easy, sweet spirited baby. My heart still swells every time she smiles at me or grabs my hand. I am pretty sure a day hasn’t passed since she has been born that I haven’t teared up with joy at some point. We are so grateful for this little gift from above!