Seven months!

Cate Elisabeth, you are SUCH a BIG girl! At seven months you:

~weigh over 20lbs!!! (our scale at home says 20.5!!)
~are now a professional at sitting up, you love playing on the floor with your many toys, but the wipe box is your fave, and you are now quite the roller. Since six months, you have mastered rolling back to tummy, (and tummy to back) and just go crazy when you are on the floor now, back and forth, "flopping" (is what it seems more like) around everywhere. You amaze us at how quickly you can get across the living room! You are very mobile, and though still aren't crawling yet, you are VERY close (pretty much doing everything but that)! YIKES! Time to babyproof...ugh
~sat up by yourself from a rolling position on the floor last night, A FIRST! and you have done it like five times or more already today, so you've mastered that!
~are scooting backwards on the floor
~talking and babbling, making all kinds of noises, one of which is this coughing "aahh" sound. If you do it and someone mocks you, then you do it back and start carrying on a conversation
~give us tons and tons of smiles!
~have quite the personality...a super cute one at that!
~still have cereal in the morning with fruit, then veggies and fruit for lunch and we added more cereal in for dinner with a veggie.
~LOVE your jumper, you will jump in it five minutes straight sometimes!!
~are very ticklish
~are experiencing a slight bit of separation anxiety, it isn't too bad, just a little whine and whimper if we leave the room, or you can't see us, etc.
~like to smile and talk to people when you are in a shopping cart while out with mama. People usually say you are SO cute, SO precious, and "look at those cheeks!"
~like to be around other babies/your boyfriends
~love reading books, we read Goodnight Moon to you every night, and sometimes you read it to us=)
~are still working on the sippy cup, you still can grab the handles of it very well, just need to master the fact that you have to tilt it up to drink out of it.
~are getting more and more hair on your precious little head! It still seems to get fuzzier every day, but compared to some other babies, you still have a long way to go
~are in 9 month clothes, size 3 diapers
~still LOVE watching "the wheel"
~still have the same daily schedule, and sleep routine from about 7pm-5-6am, and take 3 naps a day, yay!
~are SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO much FUN!! SUCH a joy to us, we love you SO much! Mama and Daddy could just kiss those sweet cheeks and squeeze you all day!