I can't believe it. Our little peanut turned 7 months old today.
Vera, my sweet little girl. I can't believe how much I love you. It's more than I ever thought was possible. You are such a happy and easy going baby. At 7 months old, you have pretty much mastered sitting up (you roll around all over the floor), you have 2 little bottom teeth, and you started waving this week! You've been to the following states: MA, NY, ME, NH, FL, CA, and HI, and you've flown twice so far in your life (roundtrip from Boston to Hawaii, with a 3 night stop in San Francisco, and roundtrip to Orlando). Size wise, you are about 19 lbs, in size 3 diapers (you've been wearing cloth diapers for the past month and a half, unless we are traveling), and you have just outgrown your 9 month Carters clothes and are now into size 12 month. I think you are actually in the middle of a growth spurt as you've been napping like crazy this week and last night you woke up at 11:45pm, 3am, and 5am to eat (that was super rough on Mom!). You are unfortunately still waking me up at least once a night, and silly Mommy, I'm still responding to you as it's so tough to hear you cry at night.. you are just too precious to let cry, and I don't want Griffin to wake up! Dad can't take it either.. we tried to let you "cry it out" for about 20 minutes last week and Dad cracked and had to go help you.. .it was heartbreaking. In the past few days I've noticed that you started crying more when I leave the room... it's half funny and half sad, but surely just a phase. You love eating puffs.. you smile when I pour some on your tray; you are probably at about a 70% success rate of actually getting them into your mouth. Let's see what else is going on right now.. You and Griffin are interacting more and more. He will occasionally pick up a toy and give it to you if you've dropped it. You don't seem to mind it (yet) when he takes a toy from you.. I think you are just so happy that he is "playing" with you. Sometimes if he wants to give you a hug, he squeezes you really tight, and he often rolls on top of you and you giggle and laugh. I'm trying to teach him to share with you or at least give you something else if he wants to play with what you have. He only says that he wants to hold you when the neighbor girls want to hold you.. Griff makes you laugh a lot and he also can get you all riled up, especially in the car.. you two squeal together in the backseat.. Your brother sometimes calls you "Veer", as a nickname.. Whenever we drop off or pickup Griffin from school, you are so excited to see everyone, especially him. I wear you in the Bjorn and you kick your legs and wave your arms at everyone you see! Lots of people comment on how cute and happy you are.. and if they also knew Griff as a baby, they say that you look just like him (which you do.. just with more hair and you look more girly). You love it when I sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" to you- I use that as a distraction tool, like if you are getting fussy while I'm trying to feed you dinner. You immediately stop fussing and you smile when you hear the tune; it's almost as if you are comforted by it because you remember me singing it to you when you were in my belly. You are quite possibly the smiley-est baby I've ever met. Every time I look at you and smile, you smile right back. You even wrinkle your nose and eye brows a bit when you smile really hard, just like I do. You absolutely love Penny and Simon, our cats. Penny sometimes sleeps on your changing table and I try to help you pet her occasionally. Every time I run your hands across her soft fur, you have a giant smile on your face. You have a funny habit of sleeping perpendicular in your crib, meaning that when I put you down at night the long way in your crib, you tend to roll and wiggle yourself until you turn a full 90 degrees. When I lay you in your crib, you turn your head back and forth looking for one of your two lovies (pink cat, that Griff gave you for Christmas, or your pink striped giraffe lovie). You'll grab a lovie and rub it all over your face. I put in your pacifier, zip you up in your sleepsack and you settle yourself right to sleep- sometimes you make little cute moaning sounds (just like your cousin Cameron). When I come into the room in the morning and lift the blinds to let light in, you kick your legs and shake your arms enthusiastically and smile every time (I'm just as happy to see you too.). You are so amazing Vera, and I'm so happy to be your Mom. Sorry for all of the rambling, I just wanted to jot all of these little things into the blog so you could know what you were like when you were a baby... I love you!
Love, Mom
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