7 Months

Emma, you are Seven months old! Here’s what you have been up to:

-You made it to 15.4 lbs this month!! Yay Emma!

-You wear 3-6 and 6 month clothing. Some 9 month jammies and onesies fit you. But here is some interesting trivia: your feet are SO SMALL!! You only wear 0-3 (size 1) shoe.

-You eat about 6-7 oz every 4 hours. Yea! Predictability. You get 24-30 oz per day. You eat at 6am, 10am, 2pm, and 6pm.

-We stopped adding vanilla to your bottle this month.

-You usually take a short nap in the morning at school between 30-45 min from about 9:00-9:45 and about a 1-2 hour nap in the afternoon at school from about 12pm-2pm. On Fridays when Dad watches you, you take a much longer morning nap of about 2 hours because you go down earlier – at 7am. The earlier you go down for a nap, the longer you sleep! Who knew? J

-We start your bedtime routine of a bath, bottle, book, and bed about 6pm and you are usually asleep by 6:30pm.

-You are sleeping pretty good at night! You go to bed at 6:30 pm and sleep until 6am.

-You have started talking big time and string out your sounds like “bababababababababababa” mamamamamamamamamam, dadadadadadadadadadadadada. And you aren’t the quietiest thing.

-Since you have really found your voice, I have noticed that you have started waking up several times a night. You used to do this before, but you were silent and went right back to sleep. Now you like to talk loud for about 5 minutes and wake momma up before you go back to sleep J. I have heard this is common and any developmental milestone will cause sleep interruptions because you want to practice the skill.

-You have decided rolling is the coolest thing ever. And it also wakes you up at night because you think it is fun to practice in your crib. You will now roll across the room as well. I turn my back and you are in a totally different spot across the room.

-You have also decided that standing up on your own and holding onto an object is the coolest thing ever. You won’t pull up yourself, but I have a feeling we aren’t far from that.

-You have no interest in crawling or scooting but your tolerate your tummy much better now that you have realized you can rock and roll. You will reach for an object so far but you haven’t figured out that you could pull yourself and scoot to get it.

-Your baby food experience has gotten better. You still LOVE carrots. You have finally figured out swallowing and we have found a brand of baby food that you LOVE called Organic Happy Baby. You will eat an entire pouch. I like this brand too because it mixes fruits and veggies together. You are NOT a fan of mommy’s homemade sweet potatoes but you tolerate my homemade squash. Really, you prefer the store bought stuff.

-This month we have slowly transitioned into feeding you baby food 3 times a day – at 6:30 am, 11:00am, and 5pm. You stated eating food at school because your teachers said you were getting jealous of the other kids eating and would try to grab their food!

-You stick out your tongue REALLY far when eating baby food. It’s adorable.

-Sometimes you will open your mouth really wide and give us “kisses”. I am not sure you fully understand the concept. But when we put you face to face with your boyfriend Nolan you open your mouth real wide and stick out your tongue.

-You have been sick on and off with ear infections and you are quite the cuddler when sick. You will also finally let us cuddle you when you are tired. I am so happy! These are the sweetest moments.

-You love sitting up and still prefer that rather than being on your tummy. You like to play and play and play sitting up!