Dear Jorie,
I'm a little early on the 7 months thing, but that will be happening on Friday, so I figure I'm safe saying it now. I can't believe your 30 weeks old. This week you've been working on getting yourself to a sitting position, even though you can't manage it yet. You love sitting up and will play for a long time with your toys sitting in your crib. You are actually playing with your toys now, moving them around and manipulating them.
Your other new trick this week involves vocalizing. You've been working on that B sound a lot! You babble all the time now, to your toys, to us, to yourself. And I swear when you're in your crib and you get upset you're yelling "Maaaaaaa!"
This week we started you on mashed bananas. So far your list of foods includes: Oatmeal, Pured Apples, Pured Pears, Pured Peas, Pured Carrots, Blended Avocado, Yogurt, Banana and Rice puffs. We also feed you this Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal from Earth's B.est that has raisins in it, so I guess I should add blended raisins in that list.
Your favorite food is Pears, although the Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal comes in second I'd say. We blend either the Apples or Pears in with the Yogurt often to get you to eat it.
When we feed you the rice puffs, we just dump a bunch on the tray and let you play with them and try to put them in your mouth. It's so cute watching you try to pick up the puffs and put them in your mouth. I'd say you get one out of every five, but if we're quick about catching the ones you drop, eventually you get them all. You have so much fun eating them too!
We started using the high chair to feed you, it's much easier on both us and you I think. You really seem to enjoy sitting up high and having the big tray to play with things on. Also, I got a bunch of baby food recipe books for Christmas, so soon enough I'll be whipping up stuff that's a little more complicated than blended fruit!
This past week you got to meet Rose for the first time. She and her parents and grandparents were over at my parents for dinner on Saturday. I've known Rose since she was just born, and her mother since she was just born. Rose is 20 months old now, and it was amazing to see her interact with you. She was so gentle with you, giving you hugs and patting your head. She looks so big next to you, just like you looked so big next to Wesley.
Your grandparents got you a jumper a while ago, and I keep forgetting to mention it! You absolutely love it. When we put you in it you laugh and then bounce around like crazy! You also really love all the toys attached to it, one of which you bang against the side and then laugh at the noise it makes. We've even pulled out the wooden spoon and tupper.ware over there and let you bang on it. You were enjoying that until you figured out you could chew on the spoon, then you forgot all about banging your "drum."
Speaking of chewing, you're still working on that first tooth! I can't believe it hasn't shown up yet with all the chewing and drooling you do. At least we've found a bunch of teethers that you like now, so when your gums start to hurt we can whip those out for you.
We gave you your first bath in the baby bathtub without the infant sling on it. Other than being really cold (you get cold very easily!) you seemed to enjoy the bath a lot better now that you can splash and play with bath toys. I'm hoping that in the future we can figure out a way to keep you from getting so cold while you're in the bathtub, since that seems to be our biggest problem with bath time right now.
I didn't post your measurements from your 6 month exam, because your father took you, and I keep forgetting to copy them down here. I'll make sure to do it soon, and add it in at the bottom of this letter.
The doctor did say you were still underweight though, so we've been stuffing you full of food when we feed you. We basically just keep offering you food until you either stop wanting to eat, or you start spitting up. You eat SO much food! Your father thinks it's close to a pound of food, but I think he's exaggerating. I do know that it's close to 14 oz usually, so I guess that's almost a pound.
I love you so much Baby Girl!
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