Oh, 7 months, where did you go?

I can't believe I'm a mommy to a 7 month old. How can that be?

Here's what Emma's been up to these days.

Size:

• 15lbs 13oz, not much more than she weighed at her 6 month check-up (15lbs 9oz).
• Can wear most of her 3-6 month clothes still, but usually wears 6-9 months since it is starting to get colder.
• Size 3 diapers. Discovered Huggies Overnight Diapers (in size 3), which have made a world of difference in stopping what we call poop-splosions and pee-splosions during the night.

Night: The last few weeks have been rough at night. I wrote last week off to her Fifths Disease and ended up feeding her usually twice during the night. Then this week has not been much better, but I refuse to feed her more than once. That means we've had at least an hour of screaming in the middle of night each night...fun! Today I bought some earplugs!

Naps:

• Increasingly, the 3rd nap is going away.
• She is a random napper. Yesterday she took a 2 hour 15 minute morning nap and a one hour 15 minute afternoon nap. Then today her morning nap was only 1 hour 15 minutes. You just never know what you'll get.
• Can handle 2-2.5 hours of wakefulness between naps.

Milestone:

• Not much new. No crawling. No teeth. No whole sentences :)
• She is starting to try to reach for items which frequently takes her onto her stomach, so I think crawling isn't too far in the future for us.

Feeding:

• Still breastfeeding, usually 5 times a day.
• Trying to be diligent about giving her 3 meals of solids as well. I thought I'd be good and make all her food but that hasn't happened other than a few batches of sweet potatoes.
• She's had pears, prunes, applesauce, yogurt, peas, sweet potatoes, mixed vegetables, carrots, cottage cheese (didn't much like), bread, a few cheerios (hasn't figured out finger food yet).
• Surprisingly, I discovered that she loves french onion soup. Weird! I had it at Panera one day and gave her a taste and she just couldn't get enough of it.

Toys:

• We got her a Graco jumper that you hang in the doorway and she loves it! She is so cute and looks like she is doing an Irish jig when she jumps.
• Still has the exersaucer but since our house is on the market, I got tired of carrying it out to the car each time a potential buyer was coming by. So it's been in the car for the past week or so.
• Has quite a few little musical instrument toys like a tambourine and maracas that she likes.
• Really want to get her a play table but it is just too hard with the house on the market.
• Ordered her a Rockabye Colt Horse as her Christmas present that I can't wait to get.

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