Months 4 & 5 seemed to fly by. Ellie went from laying on her play mat just staring at her toys to rolling from her tummy to her back. It took her a little longer to figure out how to roll from her back to her tummy, but she finally got that around the 6 month mark. Now at 7 months she's rolling around the room and running into furniture if we don't keep an eye on her! She seems to be quite the mover and shaker so far, we better start baby-proofing the house now!
Ellie started giggling and laughing around 5 months. Her first "belly laugh", as I call it, was at Sam as he was licking her face. She then reached out and pulled his ear so he ignored her for a couple of weeks. They are now back on good terms. She's recently just starting crinkling her nose when she wants to smile REALLY big! She's so stinking cute. She has a fond love for her "Sophie", which is a rubber giraffe chew toy. Speaking of chew toys - I feel like that is all she does now is chew on EVERYTHING! We've certainly seen the signs of teething since around 4 months but we have yet to see a tooth break through yet. I'm sure it's coming soon enough.
The exerciser/bouncer that my mom got Ellie for Christmas has been put to great use. She absolutely loves to bounce. Even when we're holding her she wants to bounce off our legs into the air. It's great, and I have more defined arms to show for it. She also LOVES her Skip-Hop Owl that our Aunt got for her. It has lots of rings & chew toys attached to it for hours of fun :)
At 6 months we started feeding Ellie "real" food. Her first food was peas and she loved them! We then went to squash, carrots, avocado, green beans, apples, sweet potato, etc. The only bad response we got was from the green beans the first time but after a day or so she was just fine with them! So far we have a baby that loves any kind of food, as long as you can spoon it in fast enough. She's now trying to hold her own spoon and feed herself - there goes our clean house!
So here we sit at 7 months. She's rolling, she sitting up, she's grasping toys & mommy's hair, she's talking (ba-ba-ba is a current favorite) and she's smiling extra big. We could not be more blessed - not just for such a fun baby - but just for a healthy little girl. Every checkup we've had with the doctor has been normal, dry skin or rash here and there but nothing really to worry about. She's taken her shots like a champ - I honestly think she handles the needle better than I do! I look forward to the coming months and the milestones we'll experience, but for now I'm happy right where we are. I never want to rush her out of one stage into another because I know I'll miss that stage and never get it back!
Please pray for us as we take our first road trip to Oklahoma in a couple of weeks. Ellie is going to meet her great-gma for the first time!
*The pics below are from her 6 month photo session.
I just love her. So stinking cute!
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