7 months!!

Presley is 7 months today. Nope, that's no typo. SO hard to believe. I want to soak up every minute of her baby-ness because it's slipping through my fingers.

At 7 months, Presley is not interested in crawling. I've seen her combat crawl a few times but it's few and far between. She is not getting up on all fours. I have yet to see her belly get off the floor. If she sees something she wants, she uses another method to get it. Rolling! She is darn quick too! She has gotten a lot more stable when sitting in the last month. She falls back less often and when she does, she kind of crumbles over so that her head doesn't bonk the floor. Her favorite thing? Standing. I'd say she is better at standing than she is at sitting. She cruised her first piece of furniture last week and yesterday actually let go of a friend's coffee table so she could use both hands on a toy and stayed balanced for a couple of seconds!

Her favorite toys are any her sister will let her play with. Ha! Kidding, sort of. She loves Sophie the Giraffe and is really into a Leapfrog learning table we have. She also really likes any kind of teether.

Her favorite activities are being in the Beco, baths, going for walks/runs, dancing with mama, hanging out in her Exersaucer, swinging at the park and going grocery shopping in the cart.

Her favorite foods...well, this is hard because so far she has eaten everything we've given her with great enthusiasm. We're one month into solids and she's been a dream eater. She's had rice cereal, oat cereal, barley cereal, prunes, bananas, apples, pears, squash, yams, green beans, carrots, chicken and avocado. She is getting the hang out of drinking water from a sippy cup as well. She sometimes needs us to tip the cup back for her to get anything and I'm not positive that she's sucking so much as chewing the water out, but she gets it either way!

Sleeping...I always hesitate to talk about this because it never fails that we have a string of bad nights after posting! She sleeps an average of 11 hours a night with one wake up to feed about 9 hours in. About once every week she teases me and sleeps the whole night with no feeds. She puts herself to sleep at night and for naps. She is napping around 4 hours a day and we're just looking at going from 3 naps down to 2, eliminating the early evening nap.

Presley weighs 15 lbs 9 oz. This puts her at the 25th percentile. She measures 25.75 inches long She wears 3-6 month clothing with quite a few things (dresses) still 0-3 months. Her shoes are size 2. She is in size 2 diapers.

Things I never want to forget:
- what a happy baby she is. She smiles at strangers and I'm always hearing how her smile brightened someone's day.
- how Presley reserves her heartiest belly laughs for her sister. Shawn and I can get some cute giggles but Samara barely tries and has her sister in stitches.
-how good she smells. Can you imagine if they were able to bottle a baby's smell? You couldn't keep it on the shelf. Yes, the lotions and shampoos come close but not quite the real thing.