Catie Grace is 7 Months Old!

Catie Grace is becoming much less cooperative with these pictures as the months go on.  She is putting everything in her mouth now and trying to crawl- What a little mover! I hate that she didn't smile in any of these pictures, but she had just woken up.   Here are some pictures from her seven month photo shoot.

Great way to start off- eating the paper.

Always with the fingers in her mouth!

I will get you Mr. Sign. Just you wait.

I had not seen her sticking her tongue out before this picture.  She's so silly!

 At seven months, Catie Grace is.....

• Eating 8 ounces of milk and two stage 2 Gerber containers of food. (I am still making her food but I measure and store it with the Gerber containers we have).
• Eating every 4 hours. (4 liquid feedings and 3 feedings of solid food).
• Napping about 1.5 hours in the morning and 1.5 hours in the afternoon.  It just depends on what she wants to do that day!
• Sleeping from 8 p.m. to 7 p.m. every night.
• Wanting to crawl so much! She tries to scoot but one of her feet gets in the way so she doesn't make much progress.
• Beginning to pull up to standing.
• Babbling and talks a lot.
• Still only crying if she is absolutely starving or very tired.  She is such a good and easy baby!

Also...

• Loves Loves Loves the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.  Catie Grace watches it with her Paw Paw and she squeals and talks to the TV the entire time.  We also play the hot dog song from the show on our computer and she gets so excited.
• Her favorite toy is her maraca (yes, that's right) and she likes to have it pretty much everywhere we go.
• She is teething and chews on absolutely everything, but she mostly LOVES tags.  She chews on them and always finds them on any toy/blanket/washcloth/etc.
• Her favorite foods are blueberries and bananas. Yum!

Oh, and Catie Grace cut her first tooth!  On June 1st I saw that Catie Grace was chewing like crazy so I felt in her mouth and felt a tooth!  She was a champ while she cut her first tooth- I had no idea it was even there except the fact that I felt it.  She won't let us look at it, but I have caught a few glimpses of it. It's on the bottom in the middle.  I'm hoping to get a picture of it when it comes out a little more.

Our sweet Catie Grace is at such a wonderful age.  She always has a smile for me- even if she is tired or in a bad mood.  This little girl is a continuous blessing to our family.  I would just ask for time to SLOW DOWN.  I know it will be her first birthday in the blink of an eye and it makes me sad that time is racing by.  For now, we will continue to enjoy every stage of Catie Grace's life and thank God for our little miracle.