AYLA JUNE:: SEVEN MONTHS

Seven months!

She is growing up so fast lately, it seems…and suddenly it hardly feels like she’s a baby anymore in some ways. A few days ago, I was looking back through photos from her birth and those first few weeks of her life and I just about couldn’t take it! How was she so teeny and small and new just seven months ago? It feels like she’s been our girl for an eternity already. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…I cannot imagine life without her. We first fell in love with her the minute we discovered she was growing inside of me, and then all over again the minute she was born and laid on my chest…and yet it seems that there are moments throughout every single day that I feel like I fall in love with her all over again.

I find myself facilitating between wanting to freeze time and keeping her at least this small for forever, and then in the next moment looking so forward to her growing up and being able to teach her things and take her shopping and going out for coffee dates and talking about life with her. I was making some Christmas cookies earlier this week and she was there on the counter beside me in her Bumbo just watching me and chewing on kitchen utensils and throwing measuring cups around…and I had to think about how different the scene will be next Christmas….and the next, and the next. Time is such a beautiful, conflicting thing, and you really just have to be intentional about soaking it all in as it happens, right?

Here’s what she’s been up to lately::

– sitting on her own! She will still topple over sometimes still so we try to always keep a pillow or piles of blankets around her when she’s on the floor. She loves to sit in the living room and play with her basketful of toys. So far she hasn’t shown any interest in crawling or scooting around, and hates being on her tummy so much! I’m actually ready for her to start moving around on her own because I think she will be much more entertained when she can get around (and i imagine that i’ll be a lot more entertained as well, hehe). I guess she’ll learn when she’s ready!

– eating solids! We started offering her solid foods around six months, and it took her a while to get the hang of eating from a spoon, but she does good with it now. Some days she won’t eat as much and will wrinkle up her face at certain things, especially if it’s a new flavor. Then other days, she will open up her little mouth wide and eat and eat and eat and get impatient if you take too long to get her the next bite! She likes banana, applesauce, avocado, and sweet potato so far…and we’re working on getting peas on the “will eat” list. I can’t understand it…peas are so yum!

– “talking”! She’s becoming quite the chatterbox lately, and she’ll sit on the floor with her toys and just jabber to herself. It’s the cutest thing! We’ve been trying hard to get her to say “da da” and there are times when she does make a “da” sound and of course we think she actually tried to do that and make a big deal about it, hehe. #firsttimeparents

A LOOK BACK: six months, four months, two months, first week, and our birth story.

What about you: what are some cute/fun things that your child(ren) are up to lately?

I’d love to hear your thoughts!