7 Months Old

Adelia is 7 months old today. The last two months she's been a completely different baby than she was for the first five. I'm really interested to see what her personality will be like. The first while was so hard, that I was sure she was destined to be a difficult child, but these last two months she's done a total 180, so now I'm not sure.

She can roll easily all the way around now, and uses this new skill to get things she wants. I think this contributes a ton to her new found happiness. She pushes up onto her arms along, trying to get them strong enough so she can crawl, I bet. She can scoot herself around in a circle too, but not very quickly, and I don't think she premeditates it yet, I think it just happens. But still, we're working our way to mobility. I'm fine with that though.

She's almost too big for the bassinet in her port-a-crib, but I'm hoping she can hold on for one more month until we move, because when we move she'll have a bedroom big enough for her crib to be set up. In her current bedroom, there isn't room for the full size crib, so she's in a port-a-crib. Her rolling has effected her naps a bit, which is kind of frustrating for both of us. She sleeps on her tummy, but then she rolls over onto her back, she can roll back, but by the time she does she's gotten the blanket in such a twist that she's not comfortable, and so her nap comes to and end too soon.

She's not sleeping through the night yet, but that's probably mostly my fault. I've refused to sleep train her because the walls in our apartment are too thin, even though she's in the next room her bed is literally five feet or less away from my head and when she cries it sounds like she's right in my ear drum. I can't lay there and listen to it for more than 10 minutes without going crazy. Plus, I know the people upstairs can hear her really well, and possibly even the people on either side, and the people down the block. So I get up with her at night and feed her, even though she probably would be just fine without food, because if I do she goes back to sleep without a fuss, and so can I. When we move...I keep telling myself...then I'll sleep train her. 

We started her back on solids. It's been interesting. My boys were never picky eaters, they liked cereal, they liked veggies, they liked fruit, whatever, as long as I was shoveling it in and doing it quickly they were happy. Not Adelia. Of course, she would pick an area where I was inexperienced and weak...Well, she refuses to eat cereal, gags on it and acts like I'm trying to kill her every time a put a spoonful in her mouth. I mixed it with applesauce, that went a little better, but not a ton. I tried pears next because I had some left on the shelf that someone had given us little while back when their kid was done with baby food. She likes the pears and will eat them and lick her lips for more. Tried sweet potatoes...hates them, cries and spits them back at me. She'll tolerate bananas, but looks at me like she's doing me a favor with every bit. She cries when I give her carrots, but will at least swallow them, but usually spits up nice orange spit-up later. And that's as far as we've gotten. Silly girl. And of course she eats better for Aaron...so guess whose job it is to feed her at dinner? :)

But I really can't complain too much. She's doing leaps and bounds better. She's mostly always happy, unless she's tired, hungry, or poopy...but I can handle those things, and I can fix them, and then she's happy again. She likes to listen to me read stories to the boys. She likes to watch the boys to anything. She loves her jumpy seat. She likes music. She's also just started the grabby phase. If it's within her reach, she'll grab it and try to get is to her mouth asap. Books, written utensils, my coat zipper, the hymn book, hair, forks, the lady sitting next to us in relief society's collar on her sweater, you name it.

She's also starting to say some words, well, at least some sounds that sound like words. :) Mama and Dada. Love it! She usually only says Dada when she's mad, and it makes me laugh. And she always says Maaaaammmm in the middle of the night (probably because she knows if she annoys me long enough I'll come get her vs. Aaron who won't.) And she babbles and tries to be just as loud or louder than her brothers.