Sweet Baby Rae: Seven Months

This little sweet pea is learning so many new things and its so fun to see her grow and explore!

Rae loves eating all sorts of foods but her current favorites include sweet potatoes, squash and carrots. She's had peas, green beans, bananas and avocado. Unfortunately, she still thinks avocados aren't the greatest but one day she will know how amazing they are.

She has learned how to make a clicking noise with her tongue and loves doing that. She has also experienced the pool for the first time and we hope to go a lot more this summer before we leave for Japan. We've been working on teaching Rae "more" in sign language for at least a month and she did it herself at dinner over the weekend! We're still working on it, but she's done it a few times already. Rae finally has had a tooth break through on the bottom gum line so now I have to be more careful when I attempt to massage her gums to relieve teething pain (insert cringing emoji).

Rae loves: sitting up and looking around, pulling on mom's hair, squeaking, grabbing our faces, jumping in the door jumper, eating sweet potatoes and putting anything and everything in her mouth

Rae doesn't love: being alone, not being held (we're apparently in a "whine about everything" phase right now), not being fed fast enough

We're just starting up a two nap routine - down from three naps - and nursing 4 times a day. We started this yesterday but so far its been going well. Later this month we'll be having lots of visitors and we're looking forward to visits from Oma and Grandma + Grandpa Phillips!