Seven months!

Zoë is seven months old today!  She had her big follow up therapy appointment last week, is continuing to grow and do new things every day.  We're heading out to Sunriver for our first family vacation tomorrow and really looking forward to it.  Zoë's going to have lots of new firsts this weekend (baby's first bike ride, baby's first round of putt putt golf, baby's first Goody's ice cream...) and it'll be a good last hurrah before meetings for school starts on Monday.  But more about that later...

Zoë can now:

1) Sit up!  Yes!  It's true!  She is a sitting baby!  OK, I still wouldn't walk away from her and expect her to still be upright when I came back 100% of the time, but the MAJORITY of the time she's still upright when I get back.  :)

2) And within the same theme...she can sit in shopping carts and restaurant high chairs.  No more Baby Bjorn while shopping or placing the carseat in the bed of the shopping cart.  Sure, she still needs towels and blankets to bumper her on the sides, but it's still fun to be able to have her upright when we shop.  She also sits in her high chair in our kitchen and loves it.  It's handy because we can put toys in front of her and she can play with them (which wasn't possible with the Bumbo since it didn't have a tray).  Well, that is until she throws them on the ground.  But we usually have a good three or four minutes until they're all gone.













3) Pass items back and forth between her hands.  Apparently that's a big deal.


4) Drool.  Seriously, she is a drooling machine.  We're pretty sure she's teething because she's definitely become a lot more cranky at random times.  Nothing big, just some inconsolable crying until she either gets Sophie, the frozen teether, or her pacifier in her mouth.  I can't feel any teeth, but they've got to be on their way.

5) She's way more vocal.  I would say she likes the sound of her own voice.  In the car she is hilarious (which should be interesting on our 7.5 hour drive to central Oregon tomorrow) and screech/yells most of the way wherever we're going, if she's not sleeping.




6) Endure tummy time for WAY longer.  I credit the four foot wardrobe mirror from Target we place on the ground in front of her.  She's even learning to turn her body into an almost-roll from her back, just not quite there yet.

Growing so fast!