Month 7

I can't believe Georgie's 7 months old. We're not ready to say goodbye to 6-month-old Georgie.

The big thing this past month was crawling. She went 2 steps about 10 days ago, and now pretty much goes wherever she wants, and fast. Yesterday she pulled herself up using the couch, then promptly fell down. She pulled herself up today on the bar stool (cat stool) but then tried to hold on to the top step with her mouth (we were right there and promptly helped support her and get her mouth off of it). She's trying to pull herself up on her toy box right as I type this. She also tries to go from crawling to standing, a feat that's probably at least a few months away. She can quickly switch between sitting to crawling and crawling to sitting. Her papa taught her how to kneel a few days ago, and she's been doing that quite a bit lately too.

A few new things have made her laugh this month -- when I help her lean back while I hold her, when her papa imitates her leaning back, and some of papa's funny accents (but NOT his British accent ... note to Samantha: I don't think she's ready for Monty Python yet).

She still loves the cats. And they seemed a little alarmed that she can now crawl. A few days ago Georgie was on the floor and crawled over to Aslan, who was right next to me on the couch but whose tail was hanging over the edge. There weren't any choking hazards around .... but I looked down and saw the end of Aslan's tail in Georgie's mouth. I couldn't see any of the white tip of Aslan's tail. Yuck city.

She also really likes to look at things from a different angle -- by turning her head sideways. I held her at the window at Grandma and Grandpa's yesterday while there were cats on the window ledge outside; she leaned down, turned her head sideways and stared at the cat right in the face, only an inch or 2 away but separated by the window.

Speaking of grandparents, this past month was special because she got to see all 4 of her grandparents and one uncle.

MY big accomplishment for this past month is that I was finally able to leave Georgie for more than a few hours at a time. I've known how important it was for Georgie and for Aaron to be able to spend more time together. I think I've written this before ... I've been able to spend so much time with Georgie, I knew it's only fair that Aaron gets to spend days with her, too. It just took me a while to maternally/emotionally get there. So Georgie's 7th month has been special because she's getting to spend more one-on-one time with Papa.