7 Months!

Dear Ava,


A bit late as usual, but here is your 7 month update! So many milestones happened this month it feels like...or maybe its just that you're doing things that make me feel like you're growing up too fast...same difference...

Let's start with this whole sitting unsupported thing. Umm, one day you're tipping over after 10 seconds and the next you're hanging out upright for 30 minutes. What?! When did this happen? Well, sometime in May. I can tell you that much. Do I have an exact date? No. That's because I never really knew when it counted as sitting unsupported. After 10 seconds? 30 seconds? A minute? 15 minutes?! One day you were just hanging out for what seemed like forever so I thought it was time to check this milestone off the list! Oh, and now? You're going from sitting to laying to sitting to laying to rolling to sitting to laying and you're alllllll over the place!




Also sometime in May, you started crawling backwards. Its more of a pushing yourself backwards sort of thing rather than the hands and knees crawling, but you started doing it and you started getting to the opposite place that you wanted to be because of it! It was cute, but it made you a little angry that you wanted to go forward and were instead going further back.

On May 21st though...you know what you did? You started rocking back and forth on those little knees of yours. You know what that means? Crawling was to come ANY day! We've waited and waited and although I'll have to save it for your 8 month blog post since I'm putting this up late...it happened TODAY, but only about a couple feet forward. You slowly scooted your hands and legs forward one at a time to get to the walker and you made it onto the wood floor from the carpet. You don't have it down yet, but I guarantee by the end of the week we'll have to watch your every move to make sure you aren't getting into things you aren't supposed to have! I doubt that's going to stop you though....


Your favorite thing to play with right now? My wallet. The handle is thinned out from you chewing on it, but it always calms you down so I let you play anyway. Not for long though because I'm sure you'll figure out how to open it and that just spells bad news! Unfortunately I don't have a pic of this. No biggie though.


In the end of May you had your first POOL DAY at Brent and Angie's! You hated the water at first, but after a good 20 minutes or so you were ok with it. Not thrilled, but ok. You were exhausted within the first hour so you slept on grandma for a while.

You are currently eating about 5-6 ounces of formula 5 times a day, some rice cereal and fruit in the mornings, and rice cereal, a fruit and vegetable at night. You don't always want the vegetables (except sweet potatoes which you love), but we're working on it. 


You're in a size 3 diaper right now. Getting bigger and bigger! Oh, and you're 20 pounds! Can you believe it? 


That's it for today! Considering I'm posting this in June though I will say that you have already achieved 2 more big milestones and we're not even halfway through the month!!! Looking forward to the 8 month update!


Love always,
Mommy