7 Months

 Has it really been seven months already?  It does seem like the time is just flying by.  Her little personality is starting to emerge.  She loves to be around people--being held, especially.  She is very vocal and will let you know her mind.  She is also already a mover--she is all over the place.  She will mostly roll to where she wants to go, but she has also started army crawling, and is on the verge of crawling.  She will get up on her hands and feet and rock back and forth.  At that point she usually gets frustrated and cries because she hasn't quite figured out how to coordinate her limbs to propel her forward, but she is close, so very close.

 She is also teething.  Oh, the joy.  She has two teeth which have emerged on bottom, and one starting to poke through on top.  Her schedule has completely changed, and the last several nights she has woken up around three or four in the morning and has not gone back to sleep for a few hours.  She has been a fussy girl.  It makes me miss the three AM wake-up to eat, and then right back to sleep. 

 She is also a pro at sitting, and sitting herself up.  She is at the point where she seems to say, "I have sitting down, let's work on standing!"  She will lock her knees into a standing position when I try to have her sit and play.  She loves her exersaucer and will bounce up and down when in it.  I even caught her pulling herself up on a stool earlier, but I was too slow on the camera to capture it before she toppled over. 

I wanted to show her pulling herself up, but she decided to stick her leg out, but you can see how close she is to crawling--she gets herself up!

 

A good view of her two bottom teeth.  She is such a cutie!