Thursday, August 5, 2010

Seven Month Itch

Our Baby Bear is already 7 months old! And she thinks she's even older than that! Here's a tally of all the skills/milestones she's achieved thus far:

-crawling (for over a month now)
-pulling herself up to stand (on everything in sight)
-eating finger foods and loving every minute of that (she prefers to feed herself)
-three teeth
-banging with her hands
-dadada, bababa, mamama

Some "firsts":  She's eaten her first leaf, and was pretty upset about it. She's had her first bruise (on her cheek). The first of many I'm sure. Her first time away from both of us when Adam and I went to a concert and our friends in Portland watched her..... Time is spiraling away from us! Where is my little tiny baby?

In other news, Mom came out for the week last week. We all packed it up and headed to Bend for the weekend (our favorite getaway). Adam and I got to go mountain biking. Together. TWO days in a ROW! This was huge for us. Now we don't take outings like this for granted. It's amazing what having this little person in our lives has done for us. I feel that now we are simply more grateful for the little things in life (like getting a couple of hours to go mountain biking together). Thanks mom for the help!

Everyone expected lots of good pictures. Well, I hate to disappoint. This is literally the only one we took on our little vacation:


For some reason we took a picture of her when she woke up from a nap. She was soooo good on our trip. Slept like a baby. 

Shifting gears: I mentioned her affinity for feeding herself. We remembered we had some frozen apple pieces from making applesauce last summer. She thoroughly enjoyed sampling them. 



Well, okay, it took a little while to get used to the cold.


Here are some other of the latest shots. I think I'll post some video of her crawling and standing since it is kind of a big deal. 





Please excuse the clutter in the last photo. She's just discovered the "baby" that lives in the back of our closet.

We will all be back for a good stretch in September. Can't wait to visit with everyone!

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