Happy 7 months Hannah!

Hannah is 7 months old today! It's been a month since we've started posting. At playgroup this morning, she had her 1st ride down a slide with mommy. We were at a playground near a skate park, and Hannah was really mellow - sitting on my lap most of the time, watching the other kids and mommies.

She's been crawling a lot and can basically get anywhere she wants to. She enjoys standing more than sitting and is rather good at stepping with us supporting her arms. She doesn't like to eat baby food very much because she still prefers to nurse, but we're working on it. She likes to spit out her food by blowing raspberries and covering us with food splatters. She started picking up food and eating it this past week. During month 6, she completely stopped biting or gumming while nursing. Somewhere between month 5 & 6, she learned to stick her finger in her mouth while nursing and chew that instead of chewing me. She's very very vocal now. The sound she's been making most often the past week or so is, "dah, dah, dah, dah," and she repeats it loudly especially when she wants to nurse. She's able to balance by herself while sitting on the toilet, and goes poo poo in the morning (and/or afternoon). She pushed herself up into a sitting position from a laying down position also this past week (but only once and with the assistance of a nearby pillow as her leverage). She's very cuddly and lovable. She's become more needy or more aware (depending on interpretation) recently. If I leave a room and if she's not preoccupied, she starts to cry almost immediately. Whereas before, she could last a few minutes before she'd react.

The past 4 nights or so, she's been sleeping an average of about 7-hr stretches at night, before needing to feed and going to bed at relatively nice hours. YAY! Much to my relief.

Though tonight, she had a horrible time falling asleep. It hasn't been this bad for a long time. We started putting her down around 7:30pm-ish. And it took about 2 hours for her to finally fall asleep. The ordeal included her almost falling asleep, but then becoming alert, playing and crawling around, fussing, seemingly calming down, then many 'bouts of pick-up put-down by daddy, then crisis: bloody-murder screaming b/c I ignored her and she ended up crawling/rolling herself into a jam, and then me comforting her b/c I felt so guilty for ignoring her.

It feels like a long time since I posted last Wednesday. Thinking back, my memory probably isn't accurate anyways. She didn't sleep so well that Wednesday night after sleeping well Tuesday night. I remember being a tired mommy Thursday day b/c I couldn't fall asleep after waking for the early morning feeding.

The weeks are a blur, but the days are sometimes long, and the months pass quickly. Time is all relative to me now. And some milestones I don't realize are milestones until a few days later, when they're repeated.

She's super cute. And I totally love our Hannah dearest.

Hannah's many expressions and mannerisms:




Wiggly Hannah...laughing and just being happy.