7 Months Old

How is our little Gemma already seven months? Whenever I start to feel sentimental over passed time, I remember that one lady from church shared with us, "They only get more fun!" (And sometimes I remember what John has told me before, "You can always have another one . . . although there is a limit to that!")

Gemma doesn't crawl yet, but she rolls and pivots herself about constantly! She's getting better at sitting up, too, and soon I expect that she'll be able to sit on the floor independently. She loves clapping her hands and "talking." She uses a lot of ma's, ba's, da's, some ga's, and recently ya's and ha's, and she also uses other vowel sounds with those favorite consonants.

At her six month appointment, Gemma was in the 97th percentile for height and at about 75th-80th percentile for weight and head size. She's definitely getting quite attached to Mommy and Daddy! But her little sin-nature is coming out, too. Whenever she has something that we have to take away from her, she starts crying. We're trying to teach her not to fuss at these times!

One day before her six month birthday, Gemma started bananas! That's what she's eaten the most of so far, but she's also had squash, chewed on a piece of apple and a piece of canteloupe, and today she had some organic baby oatmeal for the first time! She's also getting good at drinking from a straw, and she likes to grab for her Mommy's or Daddy's cup and put the straw right in her mouth! So far, she has loved every food that she's tried.

Yay! She's clapping her hands in the last one. Perhaps she's saying "thank you" to the friends who gave us the booster, but perhaps not, so I will. It works great, and we love it!