seven months

Emily is 7 months old today and she's getting more and more fun as time goes on!  She's becoming so social!  She loves people and is always smiling at everyone we come across.  She's also becoming more aware of other babies.  She has a lot of fun when she sees other kids at church.  There's a family in our ward who lives right across the street and they have a baby who's just 2 1/2 weeks older than Emily.  It's the perfect situation, but unfortunately, they're moving to Russia this Summer :(.  We're going to miss them!

Emily's very playful.  We finally got a rug in our living room, so I can just sit her down with some toys and she'll usually be ok for awhile.  She can sit as long as she wants, but now she can also get from sitting to her tummy without just falling over.  She's learning how to get onto all fours and she's very eager to move forward.  She can usually get to things by rolling around and moving sideways, but if something's just barely out of reach right in front of her, she gets really frustrated.

She has 2 teeth now!  She's teething, so she always wants to have something in her mouth.  We have to be careful what we let her play with because we know it will end up in her mouth.  She loves those mesh fruit dispensers and could suck on it forever!  One time I left the room to get her a new outfit and when I came back she had gotten to Grant's shoe and was eating it-- probably not the best choice :).  We also have to be careful about getting ourselves too close to her mouth.  She'll be acting sweet and playful, and then out of nowhere, she'll lunge at us and try to eat our nose!

can you tell which side she was sleeping on in this picture?

She's such a sweetheart!  If we put her close to our face and tell her to give us kisses she'll turn toward our cheek with an open mouth.  Then we say, "aww, thank you," and she smiles really big.  And while I know it's still too early for her to be saying words yet, we really feel likes she's saying "hi" sometimes.  She'll do it when she first sees someone or when a person is across the room and she wants to get their attention.  In that case she usually screams it.  And then she'll say it back to you as many times as you say it to her.  She has a lot of fun with it.

We're finally getting real sleep!!  I had forgotten what it was like to get a full night of uninterrupted sleep.  It was six months after she was born, but even before that I didn't sleep very well toward the end of my pregnancy, so it's really been a while.  It's glorious!!  I'm so happy every morning when I wake up and realize she's still asleep or when she wakes me up in the morning and I realize it's not the middle of the night.  She sleeps on her tummy now, so she can get more comfortable.  It's so fun going to get her out of bed when she wakes up and getting greeted with her cute little face sticking up over the crib (we're going to have to lower her mattress soon!).

Today's photoshoot was a little interesting.  She's been pretty cranky today so we weren't sure if we'd get a good photo at all.  But she was actually in a pretty good mood while we were taking pictures.
However... for most of the pictures we took she was either...

looking anywhere but the camera:

and doing anything but smiling:

Luckily, all it took was a game of peek-a-boo to get some grins out of her!

I know there was an overload of pictures this month, but at least the grandmas will like it :)