Growing Up - Miss E., 7 Months

Life with Elly at 7 months:

• Everyone who sees you compares you to a cabbage patch doll. Okay, not everyone...but it is darn close!
• You gabber a good deal, but so far you prefer grunting to get your point across ; )
• You started sitting last month, and boy have you mastered it! The only time you fall over is when you are getting tired.
• You have started to "crawl" from your sitting position. You'll reach for something until you fall forward into a crawl position. You can't really get anywhere, and you can't get yourself sat back up so this has become a bit frusterating for us all.
• You love to pat. I love when I pick you up from your nap or diaper change and you just pat my shoulder or back : D
• You are a piggy! Veggies and fruit twice a day, and if you would stay awake you'd get breakfast too!
• You have also started to drink from a sippy cup. I don't know if you love getting the drink or the opportunity to gnaw on something new more.
• You LOVE to be outside. I'll carry you in the wrap and we'll follow Max around many afternoons and you think it is all for your entertainment! The laughs you share with us are great!!
• You've moved into size 6-9 month clothing, right on target.
• You still wear a size 2 diaper, but soon we'll have to move to 2-3 or 3!
• At your last appointment you weighed 16lbs 13 oz and were 26 inches long. I looked up your brothers stats from the same time in his life and he was a pound heavier and an inch longer! I guess it's all going to the cheeks ; )
• You got to meet Aunt Mel for the first time this month. I think you have another fan : )
• You tried table food this month, too. Meat loaf, baked potatoe, ribs, mashed potatoes and a deluxe grahm (from grandma!) are the things you've sampled so far!

HELP!

I'm not a good decision maker. We are FINALLY finished painting, and now onto haning our pictures. But appointing the place to hang remains to be decided. So, HELP! Let me know what you think in the comments. I'd put up a poll, but find that the blessed nap time is over ; ) And...THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP : D

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Growing Up - Miss E., 6 Months

Life with Elly at 6 months:

• You are a little piggy! You started eating cereal just a week or two into your 6th month, and have already progressed to eating a serving of veggies too! You're a good, clean eater, the main mess maker is me ; )
• Your cheeks seem to get pudgier every month! I guess it's a good thing, people seem to adore them : D
• You officially sit up now. Your balance is better every day, and you're so much happier now that you can do it yourself....and play with toys on your own.
• You love to stand! I don't think there will be much crawling in our household this time around either.
• You're verbal skillz are growing...but we seem to be branching into an area your daddy and I would prefer to leave behind...WHINING. You spend a great deal of the day doing this!
• You are straddling the line between 3-6 and 6-9 month clothing, it won't be long now!
• We recently had to switch you from Huggies Snug and Dry to Huggies Lil Snugglers because you were leaking through! Now Mama's considering a switch to clothe. We'll see.
• You're smiles and laughs continue to highlight our days : )
• You love to watch Baby Einstein's Baby Neptune. This is my sanity saver when you keep scooping the loop in Whineyville.
• You love to dance with your family. I hope this is a love that lasts a lifetime!
• You love to look at yourself in the mirror : ) If I were as pretty as you, I guess I would too!

Jump, Jive, and.....

Those crazy kids can dance! The parents aren't too bad either ; ) This past Saturday was National Dance Day. This is something that is common in our house every weekend, but recording it was a little tricky, and a little embarrassing!

We Love Cheese

Wheel or wedge...

On a toothpick, with fruit...

Sliced or shredded...

Baked...

....and in many other forms and flavors. But our favorite, our absolute favorite, is this:

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It's a classic for a reason; Ham and cheese ; ) Notice how his hand is up in both pictures? It's becuase along with the "cheese" comes the camera click!

Captivating

I think I mentioned that Elly likes to be read to. Is this not the cutest thing!?

Growing Up - Miss E., 5 months

Life with Elly at 5 months:

• You're eyes are still blue!!!!
• You are still chewing on everything you can, but no teeth to show for all your effort! I think we've just about exausted all our teething avenue's w/o finding you much relief : (
• You love to grab at things now that you've figured out how to *kinda* hold on to them. Tonight you took Mommy's water bottle away from her!
• You are finding yourself and your brother HILARIOUS.
• We have finally moved you into a size 2 diaper; with that change came a change in your diapering demeanor.....meaning you no longer like them! I blame Max.
• You've figured out how to roll from your back to your tummy, but for some reason you don't like to show this new talent off!
• We've started some Baby Einstein videos and you are slowly starting to pay a little attention; you are finally playing more independently for longer periods of time too! (Yay for macro breaks!)
• You've really discovered your voice and love to exercise it before bedtime : P
  
• You're hair is starting to get noticebly longer (to me anyway!) and I've started to daydream about hairbows : )
• You are liking to be outside a little more now; I think you figured out the scenery changes more frequently!
• We cannot take you anywhere without at least one person mentioning your cheeks! I confess, I love to kiss them!
• You cheered the ICubs at your first baseball game ; )

At your last well baby appointment (6.29.10) you weighed 14 lbs (75%) and were 25 inches (80%)=combined 50%. I took you in a week later for an ear check and you had already gained an additional 6 ounces and grew another 1/2 inch!!!!! WHAT!

As a side note...this is our/my 100th post ; ) It took me almost 2 years, but here we are. Hopefully we'll be adding to that count considerably more often in the near future. Tell me, how do the other mommy bloggers do it??? I can't seem to find enough time to sit down and put a post together between my two (and I will not be making a habit of doing it at 11 pm as I have tonight!).