7 Months Old

The months continue to fly by. Hallie turned 7 months a few days before Christmas. There haven't been too many changes during this last month with her, more just fine tuning the things she started at 6 months. Her personality is probably the biggest thing that has started to really come out. She's so much fun. However, she is perfectly content to just sit and watch what is going on. No desire to crawl or move around at all, despite the efforts of Mikkele to teach her how. Mikkele was funny and thought she could teach her in a day how it was done. She found out otherwise. I kind of think she might go straight to walking and skip crawling all together. We'll see, only time will tell. Typically you don't go to the doctor in the 7th month for a well child check, but she has had ear infection after ear infection so we were able to check her weight. She is weighing in at a whopping 21.11 lbs this month. She has slowed down a bit. I kind of think this has to do with eating solids more frequently and less bottles. She has also started to take a binky, which I think is fabulous. Now at night I just have to put the binky back in her mouth if she wakes up, rather than a bottle. So yes, I'm starting a bad habit 6 months before we'll be trying to take it back away. But I'm TOTALLY okay with that. She is able to play with her little friends a little bit now. There is a little bit of toy stealing that has already started, but the tantrum that usually follows a toy being stolen hasn't started yet...thank goodness. I can wait for that. One of her friends Teegan. He comes over to play once a week while his mommy goes to the temple.

She continues to be more and more vocal. She does the best with her "d" sounds. She babbles "dad" and will even say "that" but with more of a "d" sound at the beginning. She loves to put anything in her mouth that she can get her hands on. She is such a busy body, and always trying to find the next thing she can reach. She loves paper. The feel of it, the sound it makes when you crinkle it, and even the taste.

She's always trying to steal my phone and suck on it, but every time she does, my earpiece gets wet and then it's hard to hear out of it. So I found one of my old phones and gave it to her. It doesn't light up though, so she doesn't like it as much.

Aunt Lisha was trying to convert her to a Diet Pepsi girl. But we all know she had Mt. Dew running in her umbilical cord (don't judge me), so I don't think she's gonna go for the Diet Pepsi. Sorry Lish.

Her hair is starting to grow finally. It's still really fine, but we can get it into a mohawk.

She is sleeping better at night with the help of that awesome binky. As long as her ears are feeling good she only gets up once, if at all. Lately it's been a whole other story with her dang ears though. (She is scheduled on January 20th to get some tubes put in. I can't wait.) Typically she's not all sprawled out like she is in the picture above. She usually has her blanket up by her face, and quite frequently we'll go in to check on her and her face is totally covered. That's how she likes it, but I sleep better once I check to make sure it's not. Silly girl.

We just love this girl to pieces. Jeremy thinks we need 10 more since she's such a good baby. We know they don't all come like that though, so no rushing off to fit in those next 10 in the next 10 years.