Seven months have flown by. By our best home measurements, Little Bird is 29 inches long and 19 pounds. She has six teeth now and they make her look so much older now when she grins. She puts everything in her mouth and especially likes measuring cups (which Caleb says are not toys).
She has learned to sit up on her own by backing up until her feet hit resistance and then walking her hands up into the sitting position. This has allowed Little Bird to be quite mobile for a girl who can't crawl. She will roll around, sit up, lay down, roll, sit up, etc. all the way around the room. She gets into the crawling position and rocks back and forth but hasn't quite figured out the leg and hand coordination, but it won't be long.
Up until a couple weeks ago, Little Bird would be snugly swaddled and just stay on her back all night, sometimes rolling over once she woke up in the morning. But she started rolling over at night, still swaddled, with her face straight down in the mattress. So she would wake up crying. After one night of this, we went cold turkey on the swaddling and she did surprisingly well. We have to put her in a pajama sack to sleep otherwise she rolls around and her legs get stuck poking through the crib slats.
Now that she has figured out sitting up, after naps we often come in to find her sitting in her crib peeking out between the slats. So cute.- Unfortunately she often sits up when she should be falling asleep and isn't very good about laying down again. Then we have to go in and rock her and try again. Silly girl.
We have been continuing to try some new foods. Like with the applesauce, Little Bird was not a fan of peas. But she really seems to like sweet potatoes. Depending on her mood she is either a really good eater or easily distracted and trying to eat the seat belt or her bowl.
Little Bird is getting more and more interactive with Sadie and Sylvester. She loves to let the dogs lick her (yuck). They are her buddies down on the floor.
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