Friday, December 4, 2015

Scarlett is 7 months old today!

At 7 months, Scarlett:

Weight/Height: Won’t know until 9-month check-up

Teeth: 2

Loves:

• Being held
• Rolling
• Babbling and squealing
• Being sung to–is loving interactive songs like Itsy Bitsy Spider and Patty-Cake
• Grabbing everything within her reach (hair, necklaces, faces, toys, books, everything within eyesight, etc)
• Blowing raspberries
• Bath time
• Her highchair
• Dancing with mama
• Kicking her legs
• Kisses
• Exploring new places–so many interesting things and people to look at!

Dislikes:

• Being sleepy
• Being confined to one spot for too long
• Buddy barking when someone is at the door
• Eating solids (apathetic–doesn’t hate them but isn’t too interested in them yet, mostly just enjoys chewing on the spoon)
• Stuffy noses and getting her nose suctioned
• Sore gummies

What’s New:

• Started consistently sleeping through the night two weeks ago from about 8pm-8:30am
• Started eating solids at 6 months, has tried: avocado, sweet potato, peas, spinach, applesauce, banana, carrot, pear. Not very interested in them yet, only eats a few teaspoons at a time
• Sitting in highchair to eat
• Blowing raspberries
• “Swimming”–lies on belly and flails arms and legs as if swimming (trying to figure out crawling)
• Can sit up for about a minute at a time before she flops herself backwards or sideways
• Making consonant sounds like “p-p-p-p”,”f-f-f-f”, “vvvvvv, “m-m-m”
• Whispering babbles to herself
• Will sometimes say “mamama” when she wants mama

Other Activity:

• Nurses 7-8x/day, majority of feedings <10 min, with one or two marathons (20+ min)
• Sleep: Goes to sleep around 8pm and wakes around 8:30am; Takes two solid naps each day, a short one (usually 1 hour) around 10:30 and a longer one around 2pm (usually lasts about 2 hours).

Nicknames:

• Bunny
• Pumpkin
• Mama’s Baby Girl
• Who/Whooie/Baby Who
• Chuub
• Poppy
• Shortnin/Shortcake
• Sweetie Poo

Photo Outtakes:

My Girl

I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day
When it’s cold outside I’ve got the month of May
Well I guess you’d say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl 
Talkin’ ’bout my girl 

I’ve got so much honey the bees envy me
I’ve got a sweeter song than the birds in the trees
Well I guess you’d say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl 
Talkin’ ’bout my girl 

I don’t need no money, fortune, or fame 
I’ve got all the riches baby one man can claim 
I guess you’d say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl 

We love you, Scarlett Rose!