Seven Months Old

Dear Daughters,

You two are wearing me out! I'm glad that you let me sleep pretty well most nights, because you keep me busy ALL day long.  You're moving all over the place.  I'm constantly trying to prevent collisions with furniture and between the two of you. Still, it's pretty incredible to see how much progress you're making physically.

I propped this big pillow up against something hard to keep you from hitting it

and you pulled it on top of yourself.  Thankfully, the hole was in just the right place for your head.

You both want to crawl sooo badly.  A few weeks ago, you started getting really frustrated because you wanted to get something and you weren't sure how to get there.  Every day, you're getting a little bit better at moving forward.  Miss L, you are an unstoppable force now.  Once you set your eyes on something, you plow forward until you reach it.  Dad actually calls it the 'snow plow' move.  You put your head down as you move forward.  Then you look up once you've stopped to see where you ended up. You just started getting into the crawling position a few days ago. You are so close!

There has been a lot of sitting practice at our house.  Miss E, you're a sitting pro.  I was blown away the other day when you sat up for over a minute by yourself.  Miss L, you are getting pretty good, too, but you usually get distracted by a toy or something, so you generally don't stay in one spot for very long.

Your toes! You are both obsessed.  You love holding and sucking on your own toes, each other's toes, and even my toes.  You sometimes get upset when I move my feet away since you don't understand that my feet are a lot less clean that yours are. I made the mistake of painting my toe nails a bright color yesterday. Now you're even more drawn to my feet. 

You have the best laughs I've ever heard.  It never gets old.  It's so fun that you're starting to get ticklish.  You also laugh when we play peek-a-boo with you, when we get silly, when you splash water in the tub, when we lift you in the air, and sometimes I have no idea why you are laughing.  The other day I was using tape to get a bunch of lint off some fabric and Miss L thought that was so funny. 

Miss L, your favorite game is hide and seek. You hide the pacifiers and Dad and I find them. You always seem to get them  in the trickiest spots. I now keep the grabber right by your crib. Dad suggested that the reason people get crib liners must be to prevent the loss of pacifiers. 

You started eating solid foods! Woohoo! You are pretty good at eating from a spoon.  You started with rice cereal and then moved on to butternut squash.  Your dad prepared a whole bunch of squash for you, so that's basically all you've been eating.  

I can't wait to see what you do next!

Lots of love,

Mom