Rebecca at 7 months

Rebecca continues to be such a happy baby. She absolutely loves her siblings. One afternoon she fell over and started to cry. I picked her up and showed her the kids pictures and she stopped crying and started squealing. She is always so excited to see them.


This month we went to CA to visit family. She went right to everyone happily and enjoyed the trip, except sleeping at night. She woke up 6-9 times a night, but when we got back went right back to sleeping through the night.

Just recently she has started getting upset if she's in her carseat for a long time. As soon as she's out she's all smiles. She took a stroller ride without her carseat and was so excited. As soon as it warms up, she'll be so much happier to be in the stroller and not bundled in her carseat.

She loves to take a bath and cries when it's time to get out. Her favorite toy is a purple hippo and her 2nd a cup. She really likes it when Ammon or Corrine take a bath with her. When I stand her up to wash her body, she won't stand, she wants to get back down in the water. I started using a scrub brush on her head which has helped alot with the flakes we couldn't get rid of. She is also growing medium brown hair.


She is a talker. She can get really loud that we have to take her out of class at church. She makes lots of sounds. When she's upset and wants something she says "nana" in a whiney voice. She squeals alot, and laughs when you play peek-a-boo with her or tickle her.

Rebecca likes to sit and play with her toys. She likes to open and shut the door on her play house. She leans flat on her stomach to grab something. She is determined to get what she wants. She doesn't like to lay on her stomach for very long. She'll roll over onto her back and be happy playing there.

Rebecca has a strong sleeping schedule. She wakes up around 7:30, goes down for a nap at 9:00. Sleeps for 1-2 hours (depending on what we are doing that day), goes down at 12:45 for 1-2 hours, then takes a 30 minute nap at 5pm. She goes to sleep at 8:30pm and gets up 1 time to cuddle and sometimes eat.

She puts EVERYTHING in her mouth. She uses 2 fingers to pick things up. She will fist things, but then open her hand in her mouth. She is great at picking up food on her tray and eating it. If we leave a bowl of food on the tray, she'll grab it and put the spoon into her mouth. She's started eating pieces of food like green beans, strawberries and meatloaf. This month she started to drink from a sippy cup and really likes orange juice.

We are working on learning some signs: more, all gone, banana, mom and dad. She really understands them and opens her mouth when we sign "more".