7 Months

 7 month old Emmy girl. 

When baby photo shoots become nearly impossible.

She's seeing all the details in the world around her. She fixates on things like never before, and although she isn't scooting yet, she can circle herself around in a 360 in a hot second to get something off the floor. It's pretty impressive. 

She celebrated her first Thanksgiving with us, and took her first bites (more like sucks) of turkey. 

We're slowly implementing more of whatever we are eating into her diet, which makes feeding her so much easier, but also adds in some extra meal planning work so we aren't serving noodles with 2 cups of whipping cream as the main dish to our 7 month old. Oh but those noodles are so gosh dang delicious.

Black bean burger patties for the win. 

She's a big fan of the banana. 

Peel and all. 

This month we officially stopped swatting the thumb and pushing the pacy on her and are trying to embrace the thumb suck. I'm not gonna lie, it's kind of adorable to lie her in her bed and watch her immediately put her thumb in her mouth. So far she only does it when we lay her down, it will be interesting to see if that changes over time.

We also bought her a snow suit to sleep in just like we did with the other kids so that she can be cozy and warm. 

We had a week of TERRIBLE sleep when her first tooth was popping through. I mean, bad. Like, up every two hours and mom lost her marbles and flooded the house with tears one day from sleep deprivation bad. We somehow got through that and she is now waking just once, around 4 or 5 a.m. and then usually up for the day around 7 a.m. I usually go in and do a little dream feed for her before I go to bed around 10 p.m.

She goes between 2 and 3 naps, depending on the day.

Baby tooth popping through. 

(Also caused her to have some of the most cranky days of her short existence. Tears in her eyes, but somehow she will still flash a smile every once in awhile). 

No matter how bundled, she doesn't like being out in the cold for long. I can't blame her.

Her right eye still goops like crazy. Some days it is definitely worst than others, to the point of walking in her room in the morning to one eye shut. Poor girl. The doctor said it should go away in the next few months, so we're going to keep an eye on it. Quite literally. 

Can't believe she is big enough to be swinging away at the playground.

Her squeals are insanely loud, especially when bouncing around. If we get a chance to take turns sleeping in, Darin or I will always blast the fan in our room to try to cover up her early morning squeals from the living room.

Still loves her singing star friend.

I love that she can sit up in the cart now. Everyone always ooooo's and aaaaahhh's over her and she flashes her award winning smile every time. 

She's one of the gang. We love her to death and can't imagine life without her.

She has a pretty special connection with this brother of hers. 

(Her hair is starting to get longer and more whispy in certain areas too).