Eleanor is 7 months old… and doesn’t fit on her milestone blanket AT ALL anymore.
This little chub is 25 pounds, and let me assure you, my back KILLS by the end of the day from all the picking her up and carrying her around!
She likes ALL FOOD. Even the green beans and broccoli she cringes at and pretends not to like at first, she ends up gobbling it up. She loves to feed herself and hates being fed! She’ll grab the spoon every time and then chuck it on the floor after she realizes food isn’t coming out of it. We go through dozens of spoons a day. Her favorites are sweet potatoes, butternut squash, pears, apples, bananas, and cheerios and puffs. She gets so excited about cheerios that she flaps her arms up and down like an ecstatic little fat penguin when she sees me bringing them over to her tray. She also eyes what we’re eating at dinner at night very enviously… she’ll track the food from the plate, to the fork to our mouths and seems to say, “Why am I not eating the same thing?!” We’ve been slowing letting her try small chunks of our meals and I have yet to find anything she refuses to eat. She’ll be totally done with purees in another month or so because she just loves finger foods so much.
Eleanor still takes 2 1.5-2 hour naps a day and a little 45 minute nap in the late afternoon. She’s still in that awkward in-between stage where she REALLY needs that third nap, but has a hard time going down. But she can’t quite make it through bedtime and dinner without it! If I could extend her second nap in the afternoon, that would probably eliminate the need to have that third catnap, but I have to go pick up the girls from school, and it KILLS me to have to wake up such a happy, slumbering baby from her sweet nap!
Consequently, she went through a month-long period of randomly waking up at 1, 2, 3, or 4 a.m. for a bottle. If we skip that last catnap and just deal with her being a cranky mess until bedtime, she’ll be so tired that she’ll sleep all the way until her normal wakeup time of 6. But skipping that last nap has not been sustainable, so we’ve experimented with having her take a super short 20 minute nap for her third nap, and that seemed to get her back to a normal wake-up schedule. Still, the month was rough since we had been so spoiled for months and months with an easy baby who slept all night.
7 month comparison with Samantha, Amelia, Meredith and Eleanor:
She’s finally starting to get more hair! I love finally being able to use our massive collection of baby bows.
Eleanor loves playing with her shoes and anything within her reach (hair, toys, food). She still crawls backwards and does a little twisty thing to maneuver herself around the floor, but still hasn’t figured out how to switch into forward gear.
Her favorites are bath time (she squeals and splashes to her heart’s content in the bath), walks, the swings, watching her sisters be crazy, and school drop-off/pick-up. She smiles at everyone and eats up all the attention, which she gets a lot of because she’s such a chub and so magnetic! People can’t resist talking to her and squeezing her ankles and chubby wrists.
Such a chunky monkey.
Meredith had the same exact little lips.
She has to take a taste of everything.
Loving life!
Lots of love,
