7 months old!

Wow! My baby is 7 months old today. I can barely get over it. We have been so busy and time flies. The good news is she is doing great! She sits and plays for long periods of time. Although she can get a little grouchy if you leave her on her own too long. She loves to find two of my fingers so she can pull herself up to stand. Once she's up she wants to move and is learning to put one foot in front of the other to "walk" around. She has also started reaching forward to grab things that are out of reach and looks like she wants to start crawling. (For my sake, I honestly hope she takes her time before she crawls.) No teeth yet, but she enjoys eating and gets excited when she sees her bowl and spoon. According to my calculations she weighs about 18 pounds. However, she moves so much I think her legs are slimming down. (Or maybe I'm just kidding myself.) She is also learning to become a better sleeper. We moved The P into her own room a couple weeks ago, so now I don't have to run in and stick the pacifier in the p's mouth every time she moans. I let her go and she learned to put herself back to sleep. Now she rarely wakes up in the middle of the night (knock on wood). She still likes to wake up early- usually starting around 5:30- but she is happy to play in her crib for a while or she will put herself back to sleep, so I don't normally need to get her up before about 6:30. That makes everyone's life a little happier ;) She is still as smiley as ever and LOVES her big sister. We have been taking a baby sign language class for the past 4 weeks. It is still early for her to start signing, but she loves the class. She plays with the toys, watches the other kids, and is completely exhausted by the end.

Just yesterday she started to say "da da da". It's super cute :) You can kind of hear it on the video.