7 Months

- Her favorite sounds this month (in order) have been BA BA BA, YEAH YEAH YEAH, DA DA DA (aw!).
- She sits up REALLY well. We still put pillows behind her just in case, but she rarely falls over. She has also started falling forward on purpose to lunge toward toys. Apparently that's one of the first steps toward crawling. Eek!
- Her second tooth just broke through a couple of days ago, so she now has her two bottom, middle chompers!
- Sleep has been a COMPLETE disaster for the last month. Last night she was up pretty much every hour. Sleep is a whole 'nother blog post, though...
- Sleeps unswaddled finally.
- She continues to sign for MILK. She does it when she's hungry, but also sometimes when she's tired since I often nurse her before a nap (but I don't actually nurse her to sleep.)

From 2009 - 08 - August

From 2009 - 08 - August

From 2009 - 08 - August

Standing alone.

Here's a video I took around her half-year birthday. She'd actually been doing this for quite a while before, but I love how she's examining her hand in this video. Please excuse the music in the background - Madison and I don't like a quiet house during the day.

First Park Baby Swing

So many firsts lately! Now that she can sit up well, we felt comfortable putting her in one of the park swings. We went to the park that is just next door to see what she would think. I'd call this a huge success. Her love of the park has begun already!

Tooth Watch 2009 is over! First Tooth.

Madison popped her first little chomper through on vacation - July 26th!! It's her bottom left tooth. While teething on vacation isn't ideal, it actually wasn't TOO bad. Jason did get kicked out to the couch, though, so Mads and I could have the bed to ourselves. Her way of coping with the pain, apparently, is to nurse at night - a lot.

I was actually able to snap a quick photo of it today.

From Madison Kate

I still can't believe it took about 3 months of teething to pop the first one through! She seems to be working on 3 more and nights have been ROUGH. She has never slept this poorly (even in the beginning.) I'm ready for them to push through and for us all to get a break. I feel like she's never going to sleep through the night again...

First Solid Food

Yesterday morning was Madison's first run-in with solid food. We started her on Earth's Best Organic Sweet Potatoes. I'm going to be making her food, but I wanted to make sure she liked sweet potatoes before I make a bunch of it.

As you can see in the video, she really wasn't sure what to make of it, but didn't reject it or spit it out. It did get harder and harder to coax her to open her mouth and she probably ate less than half a tablespoon, but I think it will just get easier from here. This morning she ate almost a tablespoon! (Though I think a lot of it ended up on her bib, face, and washcloth.)



This photo sums up the experience pretty well:

From Madison Kate

P.S. I have SOOO much to blog about and am falling behind. I need to catch up. But to summarize - She has her first tooth, is teething 3 more, is sleeping terribly and mama is tired, Kansas vacation was great, I swear I have a re-cap/photos from Oregon back in MAY, and more...