Ellie turned 7 months today! January was a huge blur and before I know it, its February 1st and another month has gone by. Ellie wont see the doctor again until her 9 month check up, so I dont have any stats to share, but I know she has grown since her last check up. Just by holding her I can tell she has gotten longer and heavier. I might, however, attempt to weigh her and measure her length on my own if I can get her to sit still long enough!

One thing that contributes to our little girl growing so much is what she can now eat. Ellie is now eating all kinds of baby food. She doesn’t seem to have any allergies to anything we have given her, which is great. She eats stage 2 foods and when I say she eats… SHE EATS. Yesterday morning I gave her quarter cup of prepared rice cereal, two of the four ounce stage two containers of fruit and a 5 oz. bottle… she didn’t leave a drop of anything behind. It was basically like that for every meal that day.

Ellie smiles a lot and is just a happy baby most of the time. She is cutting her two bottom teeth which does cause same crankiness, but nothing I cannot manage. She is also getting so close to crawling that I predict she will be on the move in just a week or two. She watches Abby intently and I can see her trying to figure out what she can do to get up and walk around just like her bog sister. My best bet is that Ellie will be walking very soon too, but I dont want to rush things either. Let’s not grow up too fast, ok Ellie?