The Harriman Family: 7 Months

Monday, March 8, 2010

7 Months

I'm 7 months old!

Looking up at Daddy

Squealing

Mary Ella,

Happy 7 months! This has been a month of BIG changes! You are eating food, sleeping in your crib, trying to crawl, and just loving life. And we love every minute of you! Here's what you've been up to:

You weigh 19 lbs. 2 oz. and are 26 1/2 inches long! You gained 2 pounds this month!
You have moved up to a size 3 diaper and are busting out of 6 month clothes! You are chuuuuuubby!
You drink four 7 oz. bottles a day at about 8, 12, 4, and 8. We have dropped a bottle but added 3 meals! In between your bottles you eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. For breakfast you eat rice cereal or oatmeal. For lunch a vegetable and for dinner a vegetable and more cereal or oatmeal. I try to give you some juice in a sippy cup, but you haven't quite figured out how to drink out of it.
So far you have tried green beans, peas, carrots, and squash. The only one you didn't care for was green beans, but you still ate them! I was warned that once you started eating food you might get constipated. Well, we have had the opposite problem. You now poop 3-5 times a day. What is up with that?
After 3 weeks of tears you are now happy sleeping in your crib and going to sleep on your own. You go to bed between 7:30 and 8:00 and get up between 7:00 and 7:30. Sometimes if you wake up earlier you get to snooze in the bed with us.
We have also dropped a nap! You take 2 good naps instead of 3 little ones. You nap for 1-2 hours at 10:00 and between 2 and 3.
Right after I posted your 6 month stats you started sitting up by yourself! You love to sit up and stand up- no more noodle legs!
You are happy playing anywhere! The bathtub, carseat, bouncy seat, exersaucer, floor, everywhere! You just talk and sing to yourself and play with your toys.
You love to look at yourself in the mirror and have started giving yourself kisses!
You are starting to want to get down out of my lap if you see something you want to play with.
And you are getting to be a squirmy worm in church. You like to stand up and flash your cheesy smile to the people behind us.
You started going to Bible class by yourself, and you are still a doll at Bible study, even though it gets late sometimes.
You love watching kids, especially your cousins. This weekend Trey said, "Mary Ella's eyes will not leave me." I think he meant you wouldn't stop looking at him!
You still love your musical cow and really like to play with a water bottle.
You get excited and smile and kick when we sit down to read a book. Love this!
You can roll across a room! And this is with only rolling one way from your back. I don't know why you won't roll to your left, but I can only imagine what you'll be into when you figure it out!
You are getting more and more blonde hair, and you still have blue eyes.
You think your Mia is hilarious! The last time she was here you just laughed and laughed at her.
You are getting better about not getting upset if I leave a room- most of the time.
We don't lug your carseat around anymore- it is too heavy! We just take you out and carry you places.
At restaurants you are sitting in highchairs, and you can face the front in your stroller now.
You are happy and content wherever we go, and we are so proud of you. You are the sweetest little girl in the whole world, and we love you bunches!