Lillian - 7 Months, She knows what she wants when she wants it... and how to get it!

So I'm terribly behind... Lillian is 8 1/2 months as I write this (and SUPER older as I publish it!). Fortunately for all of us, I already had a 'checklist' here in the blog of the things that were so 'right now' in Lillian's life as she turned 7 Months. And here they are!

- She has 'conductor hand' - whenever she has anything in her hand she holds her hand up over her hand and waves it back and forth as if she's directing a symphony (baby genius anyone?)

- She is army crawling to what she wants

- She started a sippy cup and she's pretty good at holding it, but not yet good at tilting her head back to get the liquid to fill the nipple

- She loves glasses (mine and hers), but always wants to take them off

- She raises her arms when she's ready for you to pick her up

- She is in LOVE with tags, buckles and straps

- She hates getting dressed (particularly putting her arms in sleeves) and is very squirmy for diaper changes

- She has started solids and though a bit of a rough start (lots of crying and head shaking and refusing to eat) she now eats pears, oatmeal cereal, baby yogurt, avocado and carrots. She's eaten sweet potatoes but we need to try them again because lately they've been a challenge.

As far as her activities go, when she isn't army crawling, she loves her walker, exersaucer (and can now turn around on her own to play with other toys), her jumper, and other musical toys. She's also started expressing her frustration through whines or tears if you move her from a toy she wants (or maybe something that isn't a toy that she wanted to play with - she LOVES electrical cords of course!) and I imagine that is a new addition to her 'skill set' that may be around a while!

Sleeping is getting better, but she's still waking up about once a night to eat sometime between 2 and 4 am. There are no new teeth this month - just the bottom two that we spotted in her 5th month of life.

Last but not least, at around 7 months her awareness seems to have skyrocketed. She is VERY attentive to me, daddy, Huck, other dogs (loves them!), other people, noises etc. Loud noises that never phased her before are scary and she will hear the noise and then look to us to see if we heard it too and how we are reacting.

Favorite age so far :)