7 months! (well now 7 1/2 months...takes me too long to post!)

We've had another busy month, enjoying our little baby become more of a little girl! She's still loving sitting up, and is doing such a good job at lunging for toys and keeping her balance. Sometimes she'll lunge so far that she starts to move into this half-crawling position, and by the looks of it, it doesn't seem that crawling is too far off! She squirms all around on her tummy now too. She can move in a 360 degree circle on her tummy (only clockwise!) and just this week has started scooting backwards in a straight line. How frustrating to move further away from your toys, when you are trying to get closer! :) We had a funny moment yesterday when she was on her tummy. I was trying to distract her into getting more tummy time and was singing and dancing with her sun hat. I started throwing it up in the air and she thought it was hilarious! Big, belly laughs! I managed to get some video of it and will try to post it at the end of this post. So much fun!

She's babbling more, lots of mama's, baa's, ffff's, and gaa's. Haven't heard the daa yet, but I'm sure it's coming. She's real vocal, either with those sounds, or she also likes to growl a lot. Must feel funny in her throat! Super cute.

She's starting a bit of the separation anxiety now too. Sometimes momma just can't be close enough for her! It's endearing, but at times trying--for example when I would like to make a run to the bathroom sans child on my hip! :) That's ok though...she's such a love bug that it's hard not to want her with me all the time anyway!

Oh, she also loves to walk around holding our hands. Not sure if this means she'll be an early walker (oh dear!), but she sure loves it right now. We were at the park this week, over by the slides, and she wanted to do some walking. I put her down, holding her hands for balance, and she walked right back over to the swings! So cute! She does love the swings.

A few days before her 7month birthday, she decided that she likes to eat! We'd been offering baby food for about a month prior to that, but she really just wasn't into it. She'd close her lips, turn her head and refuse to eat. She wanted to eat--she kept reaching for our food--but just wasn't ready I guess. I figured she'd eat when she wanted to, and sure enough she did. All of a sudden, when I offered her food she eagerly went for it! We've had lots of fun trying new foods and watching her get it everywhere on her body. She gets excited to eat and has liked pretty much everything we've offered: sweet potatoes, bananas, apples, carrots. Good stuff!

I'm sure there's other new things that she's doing, but I just can't remember them all! I really should post more often, even if it's just a quick update. As it is, it's hard to complete a big post like this! (I'm finally finishing this May 2nd!).

Here are some pictures to enjoy:

Kate in her party dress at one of the many baby showers she attended this month!


Getting ready for an EEG for a research study at the UW (she was such a good sport!)


Mmmm...sweet potatoes!


See, I really do like food!


Playing with my toys!


Good friend Aidan making me laugh!


How many pictures does it take to get all 3 kids looking at the camera?
One? Nope.


Two? Nope. (Kate's trying to eat Charlotte's shoe)


Three? still nope. Aidan's got the smiling down, but the girls are a bit behind! (well at least Charlotte's trying to direct Kate's chewing to something more appropriate). :)



Here's the video of Kate laughing at me tossing her sunhat around the house. At the end, you can see me pitifully roll my ankle and fall down. Ahh, the things you do for a laugh! :)