7 Months Old

Here she is. 7 months old today and doing her favorite thing...playing outside.
Alayna has really learned a lot this last month and is becoming quite the "big girl".

She can now roll from both back to front and front to back consistently. This has led to her sleeping on her stomach, which she does like to do from time to time. The first time she awoke to herself sleeping on her stomach, she was a little scared. I don't think she could quite remember how she got that way.


Here's a short video of the rolling queen.


Alayna has also learned how to sit up and as you can see, she is quite proud of herself. I think this really does make her feel like a "big girl".

Sometimes the sitting does end up with her falling over, but not always with a smile like this picture suggests. The boppy has been used a lot around our house these last few weeks. It seems to lessen the tears when there is something comfortable to fall on.
I am proud to say that we are progressing in the baby food area. We have found a couple things that Alayna likes and a few things she does not. So far squash and bananas are her favorite. And rice cereal, oatmeal, and sweet potatoes are not so much her favorites.

Here is a video of Alayna eating squash. Sorry it's so long.

When trying to get a good photo of Alayna for this post, this is what she kept doing...her fake, cheesy smile that seems to say, "Fine mom, if you have to take a picture, this is all I am giving you."

I thought that didn't start until they were older. Guess I was wrong.

But our days are mainly filled with this
And sometimes our days have a little of this going on.

(Unfortunately, this video didn't show it too much but, Alayna does a puppy dog whine, mainly when she is tired and sometimes it is quite funny.)

She also has become even more talkative and makes a lot of sounds that incorporate "da da". She doesn't actually say it referring to Dan, just mixed in with other sounds.

We have just confirmed that she HATES the pool, which is a bummer considering the hot weather (in the 90's), we have a pool like 30 seconds away, and she has a dang cute swimming suit.

Being the parents that we are, we still take her there and she still cries, but we are hoping with time she will get used to it.

Oh, and in case you were wondering.... she still has her chubby cheeks.