7.5 months

Dear Kaida,

Today you're about seven and a half months old. Right now you're asleep upstairs in the Nursery. After dinner we gave you your bath in the kitchen sink, I nursed you, and then we read Goodnight Moon before I put you to bed.
You're getting a little too big for the kitchen counter and you keep grabbing at everything. Daddy moved the toaster so instead you grabbed for the outlet. We're thinking about starting to give you your baths in the tub.

Now that you're older you can sit up, roll over, stand while holding onto something, and feed yourself some finger foods. You've been trying to pull up to standing from a sitting position but so far you've only gotten to your knees. The other day I put you in your crib sitting up and when I came back into the room you were on your knees holding onto the crib rail. So it's probably time to lower the mattress in your crib.

You're still a little baby, tall but thin. And your parts are little too. If I see other babies your age I'm surprised by how big their hands are compared to yours.
Your hair is getting a lot thicker and some of it is so long I don't quite know what to do with it. It seems silly to go for a hair cut when they'll only be cutting 20 or 30 strands.
This weekend I'll switch out your wardrobe to the 6-9 month clothes since you're getting too long for most of the 3-6 month clothes.
And, of course, you're still beautiful. In fact you're a model! We had your picture taken at Redford Photography so they can use your picture for advertising.

You're eating 2 meals of solid foods. We mostly give you baby food and some finger foods. Pretty soon we'll start zipping up some regular food in the food processor so you can try lots of different things. But for right now you have a very strong preference for foods that are orange. In fact you eat so much orange and so little of everything else that you even poop orange.
You usually nurse about 4 or 5 times a day. What used to take you an hour when you were first born now takes about 10 minutes.

You usually sleep from 8pm to about 7 or 7:30 am. Sometimes you wake up overnight but all I have to do is feed you and you go back to sleep. If you wake up a little early I can put you back down and you'll sleep for another hour. Yay! You take a morning nap, an afternoon nap, and then usually a nap in the car when we go to pick up Daddy at the Park'n'ride. Sometimes if your naps are a little short we end up throwing an extra nap in there. But we usually follow a schedule of back to sleep 2 hours after you wake up.

You still really like the kitties and Tonic really likes you but sometimes, when you scream really loud or hit him, he doesn't want to be around you anymore. You love your table with the phone, computer, book, and piano on it. You are very proud of yourself when you make it play a song and when you use it to pull yourself up to your knees.
You smile at me everytime I zip you into your sleep sack. We're not sure but we think you like the sound the zipper makes.
But your favorite toy right now is the frog that ribbits when you pull on him. You giggle at him every time you play with him.
You love to watch people and especially other kids play. You're starting to get more involved though. This week you and Addy both played with the gumball machine toy while we were at Aunt Jen's house.

I have been having a lot of fun staying home with you and I'm very excited to see how much you'll change and learn in the next few months.

I love you,
Mommy