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Bananas. She loves them. She also can't get enough of pears and sweet potatoes. She isn't too averse to "garden vegetables" (which, coincidentally, includes PEAS!! without her knowledge). So she's doing well with the solid foods. This evening, I plan to chop up a banana into tiny squishable pieces and letting her work on her fine motor skills for a while. I anticipate a sticky, banana-flavored face, so it will inevitably be bath night.

She sits up quite well these days, with only the occasional backwards fall. She's doing well at not overreacting and we always hesitate for a few seconds before rushing to comfort her, so that she doesn't decide to flip out immediately. She's not hurt, and I want her to learn to bounce right back :)

She's getting to the "mad" point when on her stomach and not able to reach her toys, so I think she'll start working out the mechanics of getting her knees under her to crawl, or pulling herself forward with her arms. Right now, she has learned that if she's on a blanket, she can pull the blanket toward her and the toys will come along too.

She is still sleeping fairly well, only waking up once to eat, and sometimes sleeping till about 5:30 am. Can't complain about that!! She is getting better about taking a long afternoon nap in her crib if we put her there and leave the room.

I can't believe she is nearly 7 months old! Her first plane right will be in June and she will be a burly 9 month old. Crazy.

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Don't look at me, those are Adelaide's words. I have proof!

Squish Squash

We finally found something she won't spit back in our faces: squash. Woo! She ate nearly an entire little can of it on Saturday evening and then went to bed.

Last night she slept from 8pm to 4:45am. Niiiiiiiiice. I slept like the dayd.

Not much new going on. She sits up all by herself, as some of you saw in one of the YouTube videos. She loves to stand with one of us giving her a little support or hand to lean on. This morning she went berserk in her bouncy monkey chair jump-jump thing. I put her in it and she immediately began bouncing around like a wild-girl, feet leaving the ground and everything. I have to upload that video and then it'll be posted as well.

Gaah ignore any typos, apparently I can't type this morning. Stupid fingers.

-t

AJ and the Applesauce

As you regular followers know, we had an epic battle with the peas a couple of weeks ago. They were of the fail. Needless to say, it was hilarious. If you managed to miss the video, here it is:



Two nights ago, we decided to try something different. Applesauce. We were so excited because babies LOVE applesauce. Right?



Applesauce... fail.



Today, I picked her up from daycare and came home. She was in an extraordinarily good mood (which is saying something because this child seems to always be in a good mood, this was just over the top silliness), so I put her in her monkey jump chair and washed her bottles. Remarkably, every single bottle was present. Usually, we have at least one AWOL bottle.

After I was done washing all of her stuff, I took her into the den and plopped her into her walker (which by the way, her feet do not reach the floor in that thing yet) and had some work to do on the computer. I decided to try a new snack that would also help her work on her grasping skills. They are these little yogurt snack things that melt in babies' mouths. Here is the result:



Food is an adventure.