My dear, dear, baby girl.

It feels like every day I say, she is so cuddly! She is so cute! You have the most amazing smiles. Sometimes your smile is so big you have to squint. But you get so cranky when you are tired. You are the sweetest first thing in the morning and after naps. Evenings are touchy.. depending on how much you’ve napped.

Now you are 7 months. You spend most of your time on your tummy trying to crawl. As soon as you learned how to flip from your back to your stomach about 3 months ago, you have not stayed on your back – not even for diaper changes. You don’t even know how to flip back. And when I leave you sitting, you end up on your stomach within minutes.

This week you have started to get really mobile. You see something you want, and you go for it. It doesn’t even look like you’re moving but you move pretty fast. Your uncle Richard says it looks like you are swimming on land. I think you look like an inchworm. You push up onto your knees, sometimes even up to your toes and then flop forward.

You started smiling when you were about 1 month old and you’ve been laughing for a few months now too. But you’ve just starting social laughing, like making conversation with a laugh, just a couple of weeks ago. When you first started cooing, you also tried to talk by making noise during a intake (Aba calls it oocing). Now you make a lot of sounds like a sheep baaing, which always makes me smile. I can’t wait for you to start making syllables like mamama and bababa! Sometimes you just start shrieking and boy can you get loud. It’s not from being upset though. We think that you think you’re talking.

You save your biggest smiles for Noam. He can make you smile and make you laugh while barely trying. But he is a busy boy and doesn’t try very often. Now he is actively trying to get away from you because you go after whatever he is playing with and try to eat it. Today he actually played peekaboo with you for 5 minutes with both of you giggling wildly.

We have started you eating solid foods and you are up to 1.5 meals a day now. You don’t like rice cereal at all and tolerate oatmeal. Your favorite so far is carrots.  About 2 days ago, you’ve start sticking your tongue between your lips and blowing our your cheeks. And then you make that PPPhhhhhlpppt  sound. Sometimes you get a little cross-eyed or red in the face. You look so cute doing it but it makes feeding you really challenging.