7-months-old!

Eliza turned 7-months-old today. She's been having a lot of fun being a big girl lately. As I noted here, she's recently started eating a breakfast of cereal and fruit. She loves her food so much that she'll lick it off her bib if we don't shovel it in fast enough. She's now trying to hold her bottle a bit and she's mastered holding (but not necessarily drinking from) her sippy cup. She's started to scoot across the floor to get to a toy and we're just now working on letting her hold herself in a standing position using a piece of furniture.

Getting ready for bed is a joy. She loves her bath in her giant duckie bathtub. If we undress her and put her pajamas on without putting her in the bath, she complains about it loudly. She loves to try to eat her books at story time and really seems to pay attention once in a while. She no longer sleeps swaddled, but she does give us a bit of a challenge at bedtime. Even though we've gotten into a routine, she gives us a good 10-20 minutes of crying fairly loudly before she'll go to sleep. She generally has a couple of crying fits in her sleep at night, but if she doesn't get back to sleep on her own, giving her back her pacifier usually does the trick.

Mostly, though, she's such a good and happy baby. She still loves Yo Gabba Gabba and can even tell we're turning it on when she first sees the DVR menu screen. We're a bit concerned that she seems to be a tad behind some friends' babies at this age, but she's such a joy. We're just glad she's happy and healthy.