Seven months old!!!!

It's getting harder and harder to get a good "birthday" picture!  There is just too much going on and Rylee could care less about having her picture taken.  

So, Rylee is always on the go.  She's not crawling yet, but I know that is right around the corner.  She is however, a rolling machine!!!  She rolls across the living room from one side of the room to the other constantly and can wiggle her way into a new position to roll the other way.  It's hilarious!  She can definitely get from point A to point B.  So needless to say we can't leave her alone unless she is "corralled" with pillows.  

Anything that is within reach is going straight into her mouth which keeps reminding me that we need to do some serious child proofing of our house here in the near future.  Speaking of things going into her mouth, Rylee now eats three times a day.  She loves apples and hates chicken and eats everything in between.  Honestly though I have been tasting everything that I make her and the chicken is quite awful...I need to somehow make it better without adding a lot to it.  She loves to try and feed herself, and we are constantly taking her hands out of her mouth so when we are through I let her play with her spoon and it keeps her happy.  She has mastered her sippy cup and can hold her bottle all by herself now.  She's just growing up sooooo fast!!!

She now weighs in at 16.6 pounds and is about 26 inches long.  She is still sleeping through the night.  Only now she doesn't wake up in the early morning hours (2-4) to eat and go back to sleep she just wakes up some time between 6 and 7:30.  She eats and if I'm lucky she will go back to sleep for another hour or so but usually we lay in bed and talk and watch one of her shows before we get up to go eat her breakfast.  One of my favorite things to do is listen to her talk to herself through the monitor in the morning.  She also kicks and bounces around in her crib until one of us goes in to get her.  Then once we go in there she is all smiles and acts like she is so happy to see us and gives us cuddles and loves.

Here is a video of her talking to me the other day after lunch.  Later that night she was in a talkative mood to we played the video of her and she just watched herself and laughed.  We took another video of her watching and talking to herself but it's too long to upload.  She continues to amaze us and make us laugh every day.  It's amazing to me how much she is learning on a daily basis.  When we eat I am trying to teach her "bite" and "drink" as well as "please and thank you".  I'm also trying to teach her to wave bye bye and give kisses.  

We also have more bug Rylee news but more on that later....