Whew! 7 months already! here she is. (Please do appreciate her pretty 12 month sized outfit...I'm about to roll her clothing revs up a size again. WHEW!)
Since the last post she has deigned to roll over, and is now doing it about once every 2 days. Finally, proof that she can (as we've suspected for a while), but she just doesn't care to be on her belly. Needless to say, we've increased the number of tummy times she's subjected to daily.
One of the best developments over the last few weeks is that she has really honed into the fact that Iain will perform for her if she smiles and laughs. We've been promising this to Iain, and its finally here, and he's LOVING it! We've been calling him her "Crazy Big Brother", and he's totally into that title, and finally he's getting to play the role with her appreciating it properly. The following picture is a bit fuzzy, but it really captures the look on her face best:
...and, click the following photo to link to a video of the CACKLING!
On Iain news: we've been forced to give up "quiet time." No more pseudo-naps for Iain anymore. He was starting to view them as equivalent to a prison sentence, and was getting very negative and angry in general. We've replaced them with "mellow time", when he is requested to play on his own for a bit while I get things done, but no requirement to be in his room, and no timer. He's responded wonderfully to this, and is back to his happy self, and quite willing to mostly leave me alone to get things done for 20 minute chunks of time. It does, however, rule out me lounging around with a book and a tea (or beer) for that time, though, as my excuse is that I need to get things done.
In general: life is fabulous....busy and exhausting, of course, but overall its just a lovely life. (Though it would be better if a certain little girl would stop waking up at 5:45am!!!!)
