Seven Months

She has all kinds of new noises. Clicking sounds, screeches, and funny little giggles. She can be very vocal! Mostly she loves to say "Ya ya ya ya ya ya" a lot. And she tries to have conversations. She'll look at someone (mostly Luca) and say "Ya" and then watch. When Luca says something back she waits for him to finish and says "ya" again. It's fun to watch.

Here comes Tessa Cottontail

Rolling from her tummy to her back is no big deal now, and she has definitely figured out that if she's tired of being on her tummy she can just flip over. So far no rolling the other way, but she does roll to her side sometimes.

It's funny, but she is totally my kid when it comes to eating. She is not a fan of apples, like pears okay, and is suspicious of bananas. But she loves butternut squash, sweet potato, and carrots. Even tolerates peas. My little vegetarian!

Mmm... cheerios!

We were way late in moving her out of our room and into her crib, and we may be paying for that now. She was sleeping beautifully! Then we all got colds and she stopped sleeping wonderfully. Then, (I'm guessing) she went through the 6 month growth spurt, so she was crabby, constantly hungry, and not sleeping well. Then we finally started having her lay flat to sleep, so she was sleeping poorly. And because babies are kind of weird, when they start missing out on sleep, they start sleeping less. So she gave up all her naps but one, and was consistently up 3 or 4 times a night, usually for at least an hour each time. It sucked. We tried feeding her food for breakfast as well as dinner, we tried sleeping her in the pack in play so it can be swayed while she's sleeping, we tried ignoring her until she got really mad hoping she'd put herself back to sleep. We tried making her room warmer, colder, lighter, darker. Nothing was helping.

Finally it occurred to me, when we started trying to get Luca to give up his morning nap, he responded by shortening his afternoon nap and being crabby all the time. With Luca, he set his own schedule, and it totally worked for him. It seems Tessa does not set her own schedule to work for her. So now we're forcing one on her. She's got a set wake up time, nap times and bed times. Working within those means set feeding times too. Hopefully we'll start seeing some real progress soon. Just in time for her 9 month growth spurt =)

Just for fun, here's a comparison of all of us at six-ish months. Me, Josh, Tessa, Luca. Genetics, man =)