7 Months Old

Aubrey Nicole, you are 7 months old!

You are about 17 lbs and 27 1/4 inches long.  You wear size 3 diapers, 9 month clothes and even some 12 month pants and pajamas.  I can't believe you are wearing some 12 month clothes.  The 9 month pajamas were getting kind of tight but the 12 month ones looked huge.  We put them on and the top half is still kind of big, but the legs are the perfect size.

Things you have learned/do this month:
 - You screamed Dada a couple times when you were really angry.  I think it was an accident and you were more trying to catch your breath, but I liked it because it was only a day or two after Daddy left and so it was exactly how I felt.  Since then I think you've said it a couple more times when you're talking but nothing consistent that I can get on camera yet.
 - You signed "milk" to me this morning.  It was so sweet.  You were scratching your crib when I went to get you up so I lifted your hand and you stopped, then I signed milk to you and you did it back.
 - You can play peek-a-boo.  You will put something on your face and pull it off all by yourself.
 - You act like you're teething just by the amount of drool and all the things you are chewing on, but no sign of one yet.  You have been chewing on your tongue a lot which looks really cute with your cheeks.
 - I will call you a soft surfaces sitter (because you're still a little wobbly sometimes and you'd hurt yourself on hard surfaces).  You can sit up for long periods of time as long as there is something right in front of you that you want to play with but can't move.  You get really excited when you grab something and swing your arms out and drop the toy.  Then you fall over trying to get it back.  You will also try to lift your feet and stick them on top of things while you're sitting which causes you immediately to fall over backwards.  You did sit for over 15 minutes on a blanket outside last night watching the neighbor kids run around and play.
 - You can push on all the way with your arms now when on your tummy and I've also seen you bring your legs up under you and get to your knees but never both at the same time.
 - You love carrots!  They are by far your favorite followed closely by peaches, sweet potatoes and squash.  You also eat prunes, peas, rice cereal and green beans.
 - I've tried giving you some milk in a sippy cup a couple times but you want nothing to do with it.  One day you were pretty hungry so I got your milk ready and put just a little bit of it in the sippy cup and even took out the spill proof part that makes you actually suck on it so the milk just came right out.  You let the milk pool in your mouth and then stuck your tongue out making it slide out down your chin.  I laughed so then you thought you were funny and kept doing it.
 - You are able to grip and move things with your feet.  You were laying under your play gym and the toy you wanted was down near your feet so you brought both feet together around the toy and pulled them toward your head so you could grab it.  I thought it was just a fluke, but you accidentally lost hold of the toy a couple minutes later and immediately grabbed it with your feet again.
 - You got to spend a week with your Daddy this month.  You had so much fun for about 2 days and then you got sick.  I think you two look a lot alike.
 - You took your first trip to the hospital (besides being born) and I was completely serious when I said you weren't allowed to ever go back.

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