7 months!!

Suddenly, I feel like we are on the downward slide to 1 year old! This past month seems to have encompassed several changes for Grayson. As you can see, she has gone from using her toes as a clever chew toy to something much more functional. We often find her in the "downward dog" position telling me that she's trying to skip right past traditional crawling to standing and walking. She seems like she is always experimenting in new positions which always leave us laughing. We have found her sitting up in her crib just once --- I think having the rails to use as leverage had something to do with the feat. Here are some other things that have been going on with Grayson this past month:

• At her 6 month check up, she officially weighed in at 17lbs 14ozs (75-95% percentile) and 26 1/2 inches (75-95%). She has been consistently at the top of the growth charts, so this indicated to us that her rapid growth might be slowing down.


• Speaking of the doctor, G had her first sickness this month. She had a ton of eye gunk one day and ran a low fever --- it turned out to be a double ear infection :-( . We felt awful because she never seemed that ill --- if it hadn't been the eye gunk, we likely wouldn't have even taken her into the doctor. I still feel like I have dodged the sickness bullet because she has yet to have anything that has disrupted her 8pm to 7am sleeping schedule.


• She is still a champion sleeper! Most days, she takes a long morning nap (2hrs) and a long afternoon nap (2hrs)....occasionally, she'll take a short cat nap in the late afternoon, but that one seems to be happening less and less frequently. She sleeps soundly from about 8pm to 6:30am (on workdays) and 7:30 (on weekends).


• She now eats three meals a day. Typically, a fruit or oatmeal or rice cereal in the morning at school. Then a stage 2 baby food for lunch and another stage 2 food at dinner. We have tried those dissolving puff things but she doesn't seem to really understand the chewing and swallowing thing yet.


• She LOVES her dog Herbie. She smiles and laughs every time he walks by. She loves watching him retrieve his beloved duck. It is our secret weapon to cheering her up if she is getting fussy....."let's go see what Herbie is doing!"