Lucky Number Seven

Yesterday our baby girl turned 7 months old.  She celebrated by pulling up for the first time while we were out at a movie.  We almost never leave little boo to get out and about just the two of us & when we finally do she is busy conquering a gross motor skill in our absence.  To that I say to her, "rude".  I mean I only brought her into this world, & that was such a piece of cake, so nope, I don't mind missing out on her firsts.  ((Sigh))

Luckily my mother in law has got some quick recordin' skills.
 

I'm not gonna lie, watching that video sparks an internal conflict.  My heart is screaming, "I'm never leaving your side again baby boo!", while my mind is looking down at me snarkily remarking for me to "lock it up".  Never the less, I am so thankful to have it on video.  Chase & I haven't stopped talking about how we can't believe how fast this is all happening.  We are having to be more conscious about what is around her when we step away from her & today we moved her crib down.  She looks like such a big girl!

 

Mommy, Wow! I'm a big kid now!

Can you believe your eyes people??  I mean doesn't it seem like this was just yesterday...?

 

 

 

I'm not going to bore you with more talk about how time flies by us so fast, but I am going to point out & flaunt that I am posting her 7 month post only 1 day after her 7 month birthday!  I mean get excited people.  I have successfully been bringing you posts & rocking your boring afternoons, mornings, evenings, you name it, for the last month.  You're welcome ;) 

Keeping in good documenting fashion I have also taken her 7 month shots along with a boat load of Halloween pics that I will be bringing to you in another post.  Gotta leave ya wanting more peeps.  So here is the best of the 7 month shots.  Baby girl wasn't really feeling me snapping away, but she did give me one awesome shot, which is all I really hope for when I drag out my fancy camera along with my fancy faces & noises in attempt to keep her attention.

 

So excited to show off her new trick



For those of you who stalk this blog, you may now know this to be her flirty face.
She's knows how to work the eyes already ;)

 

Look at this smile!
Yep, Houston...we have a problem; saying no to this little one will be no easy task

 

I will leave you with the latest video of what we see on the daily around our house now.  Our baby boo sliding around the house desperately reaching & stretching for whatever has caught her eye at the moment.  In this case it'd be the remote.  You may have remembered the remote from the other video, turns out home girl is a remote hog. 

 

 

This last video you should really enjoy, as I did for the first 5 seconds of hearing her do this.  I have now covered the "new toy".  Thank goodness object permanence doesn't kick in until closer to 9 months, for now it is out of sight out of mind-& out of my ears!

 

 

 In other news I am still attempting to make her baby food & she is still turning it down for the premade, ridiculously over priced stuff.  Never fear, me & my cheap side will not give in & she will get used to it...one day :)

Home made peas- yum, yum

More prepackaged butternut squash!

Dear Alyssa Kate, this last month has brought even more firsts & the next few months show no signs of stopping.  You are scooting all over the place these days, getting faster & more curious by the day!  You were scooting backwards for quite awhile because you're nobody's chump, and you realized it was easier & faster in your soft footed pjs.  Occasionally you use your legs but most of the time you just drag one or both behind you doing what I like to call, "the wounded soldier".  You are a sitting up pro, I will sit you down and you will pull yourself forward to reach a toy & then push yourself back up to sit like it's old news.  You just pulled up for the first time yesterday!  You have been threatening it for awhile but you finally put those hefty thighs to good use.  You are still not doing much real talking, or even babbling, your main form of communication is squealing either breathy at me with a cute smile or at the top of your lungs with the biggest gummy grin.  You are doing better at eating "solids", but none of the ones that I slave over & make myself.  We just found out the you l.o.v.e. butternut squash, you woulda thought?  I think that you would just keep eating it if I kept giving you spoonful after spoonful.  You are still sleeping through the night like a rock star.  We put you down & you roll over and play with your glow worm until your sound asleep.  You're also still proving to be a morning person.  It is the best days when I get to be the one to wake you up.  You are so happy to see me it just melts my heart every single time.  You have become a little parrot; you will mimic the things we do regularly.  You have started to wave if we say "hi" or "bye bye" & it is absolutely the cutest.  You even just start waving at the dogs if we walk you into the room and you haven't seen them for a bit.  You clap too, and give us the sweetest, "am I doing this right?" face.  If we ask you to clap after you've waved or vice versa you seem to have a bit of trouble switching to the other.  To that you give us this face that says, "I'm not already doing that?".  You're still our tiny dancer & singing to you is the best way to get you out of a funk if you get yourself into one.  Your dad & I still aren't quite sure how we got such a sweet, fun, easy going baby...and we're both a bit concerned we'll be paying for it big time when you're older, but for now we're just enjoying every second of every day we get with you baby boo!

XO-The Culpeppers