7 Months Old!!!

Today is Miley's 7 month birthday! I can't believe she is already 7 months old! The months seem to fly by faster and faster! So, at 7 months Miley can:

Roll over and now likes to roll over in her bed now so she can sleep on her tummy

Sit up all by herself and then reaches for what she wants and most of the time ends up on her tummy to get it

Feed herself little puffs and any toy she can get in her mouth

Chatters all the time- she has said MAMAMA but lately she likes to say DADADIE-- thats what it sounds like anyway

Knows how to ask for help by doing this little whine-- actually- I would like to break that habit so we are trying to show her how to do the sign for help instead (also the sign for more and milk)

Can clap perfectly and do SOO BIG

Wave HI and BYE BYE when asked

She can pull herself up (sometimes) and stand by things if we help her alittle

Can walk with assistance

And she is getting better each day at using her imagination and playing by herself for longer periods of time

Miley likes:

To try foods we are eating

Eating her dinner at night and drinking mommy's milk from a sippy cup to wash down her dinner- I'm thinking about starting to offer her breakfast each day too, we'll try it out this weekend

Baby Einstein- she knows when we put in her DVD's and knows when Little Einsteins comes on TV

Jumping in her Jumperoo

Walking around the house

Performing her tricks

And playing the piano

She is growing and changing with every passing day. Like this whole walking thing- she learned that in a weekend! And waving Bye Bye and Hi- Taylor taught her that last week! It's just so much fun to see her do new things. And I don't want it make it sound like every moment is fun and full of joy because she sure does have her fussy times. Like the past two weeks- her teeth must really be bothering her because she goes from super happy to super crabby in a blink of an eye. Today, Taylor had her and it was a rough day. She didn't feel like napping and then got over-tired and it made matters worse. He tried everything he could think of to make her happy and finally after 2 hours of trying he put her in the car and drove around until I got home. And lately going to sleep has become a little issue- we can't just lay her down and have her fall asleep- she won't sleep and she cries and cries until we come in and 'lay by her' (that's us putting our head in the crib next to her so she can feel our hair and then she'll drift off to sleep) I know- it's not the best habit to start but sometimes you just do what you have to do in order to get some sleep. I'm sure it is just a phase and next month she'll do something different. So we are all hanging in there and learning as we go.