Lucky 7

Our little Jilly bean is another month older and gets to be more fun with each passing month. Here are some things about her at 7 months old.

Jillian is definitely mobile. She doesn't crawl forward yet, but she is so close. She will get up on her knees in crawling position and then up on her feet. She can scoot backwards, roll, and pivot on her tummy to get anything that she wants. In the last few days she has figured out that she can go from crawling position to sitting up all by herself and how to balance on just one hand while in crawling position. She has all the pieces, she just needs to figure out how to put them all together and keep her balance. She's not very fast, but she definitely won't stay in one spot anymore. She is constantly getting stuck on or between pieces of furniture. She even started to go for the books on the bottom shelf of the bookcase the other day. Soon nothing will be safe!

Up on her hands and feet


Sitting up by herself


One of the places she has gotten stuck, we have since put the bouncer away since it was really only serving as an obstacle.

Jillian has started to do some self-feeding this month. Mike gave her her first pancake, she's had crackers, and she loves cheerios and fruit puffs. She has also decided that she does like baby food. I usually give her some baby food at lunch time and then she has some cereal with baby food mixed in at dinner time. The only thing that she hasn't really liked so far is green beans, everything else she eats really well. And she still has no teeth, and really no sign of teeth coming.


Jilly is more interested in toys these days. Her favorite is probably the Little Tikes piano, she loves to smack the keys. She is good at passing toys back and forth between both hands. We also bought a new Baby Einstein bouncer/exersaucer toy that will entertain her for short periods of time. She hasn't quite figured out the jumping part and I'm hoping once she does it will be a little more entertaining. She is also MUCH more interested in Baby Einstein. The older kids have also rekindled their love affair with Julie Aigner Clark and get excited when I ask them to put a video on for Jilly. Their favorite these days is probably "Meet the Orchestra." Who would have guessed that you could please your 6 year old and 7 month old with one show? That's Baby Einstein, bringing families together. We should do a commercial!

Jilly loves being outside, which is great since we spend much of our time outside these days. She especially loves going to the pool, seriously she hardly ever cries when we are there. Here she is lounging in a floating toy one of our friend's brought to the pool the other day. She relaxed in this thing for a while, until she decided to roll out onto the hard concrete. She wasn't injured though, when I picked her up she was smiling really big looking like she was so proud of what she could do on her own.


Jilly loves to talk. Her word of choice is "dada." The other morning after I had fed her in our bed about 6am, she rolled over after she was done eating, looked straight at Mike and said "Dada" in the sweetest little voice. It was precious and of course her Daddy picked her right up and snuggled with her.


Jilly is a snuggler. Which isn't really a surprise, because all our kids have been very snuggly. She will cozy up to you while sitting on your lap or lay her head on your shoulder when you are holding her standing up. She hasn't really developed a fear of strangers yet, she will still give everyone who looks at her her biggest, most dazzling smile.