Where does the time go?!?!
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At 7 months, Melanie is a constant joy - cheesy to say, but so true. This kid always has a smile on her face. So many things bring her joy; hitting her hands against the desk/her legs/paper/anything that makes noise....seeing her cat....."cheering" (anytime you say YAY!! - she loves it!)....clapping (she doesn't do it herself yet, but loves to hear clapping).....standing up....someone looking at her.... seriously, it doesn't take much. She was giving her daddy high fives this week when the Cubs were doing well (of course, the high fives didn't make them actually win any games!); she LOVES the bath, and can sit for a long time splashing around and putting all of her toys in her mouth. She likes the bright lights of the TV, but doesn't get to watch very often, unless she's snuggling with Daddy watching sports.
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She hasn't cut more than the two teeth she had on her five-month birthday, but her favorite teething toy is her giraffe Sophie. Sophie's legs can fit to the back of Mel's mouth, so I tend to think her molars are bothering her. She pulls to standing by herself (over and over and over and over and...), can get herself to sitting on her own, "walks" a little bit with a push toy (see previous post picture), stands up in her bed when she wants to be picked up, is still army-crawling everywhere - the other day, she went all the way from her bedroom to her bathroom, following me with the washcloth and towel - got all the way to the tub, pulled herself up on her tiptoes, and was attempting to get in the tub.
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Each day she eats cereal mixed with fruit, and a Level 2 fruit and Level 2 veggie, in addition to 4-5 bottles. At dinner she sits in her booster seat while we eat, and she is exploring bread crumbs; it's possible a few have even made it down the hatch. She doesn't use a sippy cup yet, but we've played with it.
Each day she eats cereal mixed with fruit, and a Level 2 fruit and Level 2 veggie, in addition to 4-5 bottles. At dinner she sits in her booster seat while we eat, and she is exploring bread crumbs; it's possible a few have even made it down the hatch. She doesn't use a sippy cup yet, but we've played with it.
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She still doesn't sleep through the night; but when she gets up she eats and is back down - typically only once per night. The doctor agreed, once he figured out what her pattern is, that she just needs to eat - she knows her nights (has been a-ok on that for months and months) - but just needs a little nighttime snack. When it's time for bed, she takes her last bottle in her room, and knows that she's going to sleep. She can even get put in her crib fully awake (she was even sitting up the other night when I left her) - and she gets herself to sleep. She prefers to sleep with her "silky" as she sucks her thumb, with the knit piece that Aunt Cory made her covering her legs. Waking up is a bit of a potluck - some days she's up early, some days I have to wake her up for daycare - but she's always happy when she finally opens those big eyes.
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She's wearing size 0-3 month clothes, and size 1-2 diapers. Size 1s are too small, 2s are too big, based on some experimentation we did - but she wears Costco diapers, and they come in "size 1-2" - lucky for us!
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We look back at the long and curvy road that we took to get Melanie here, and it all seems a blur now, since we have been so blessed every day since she joined us.
1 comment:
What fun it sounds like you are having and she is growing and learning so much right now!
Continue to enjoy each and every day!
What a blessing Mel is!
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