Nora turned 7 months old on the 4th of July! She had a big 7th month! She started eating vegetables, which was so much fun! She loved everything she tried, just like her brothers. We took it slow, and this month she tried peas and sweet potatoes.
Nora also got her first (and second) tooth this month. The first one (bottom left) came in on June 7th (right after she turned 6 months), and then her second (bottom right) came in on June 20th.
Check out this naked baby at her 6 month check up!! Those are the cutest rolls I ever did see...
Nora LOVES bath time! We were still using the infant sling in the big bathtub and it was working out well, though she was starting to outgrow it.
Just before the 7 month mark, we switched over to the ducky bathtub. Nora thinks she's hot stuff now!!
This month Nora started blowing raspberries too!! I don't have video evidence, but it's awfully cute!
She also started rolling over from tummy to back this month, which opened up the wonderful world of tummy sleeping!!
She is of course still smitten with her big brothers, and the feeling is definitely mutual.
Just some other pictures of our sweet girl this month...
Nora turned 6 months old on June 4! That 1/2 year flew by, as they always do! She is getting so big! At her check-up, we learned she (like her brothers) is rather large for her age. She weighs 21 lbs (99th percentile!!) and is 27.2 inches long (91st percentile). She had to get shots and once again she was not a big fan (who can blame her??), but she recovered quickly.
Last month, Nora started really grabbing for things, and now she will grab for anything in sight. The benefit of all this grabbiness (can we pretend that's a word?) is that she now likes to hold her own bottles. And one of her favorite positions is grabbing her toes, which we love...
She has really started rolling back to belly a lot now, but after awhile she gets frustrated on her tummy and needs help turning over. Towards the end of this month, the big girl figured out how to sleep on her side. She doesn't do it consistently yet, but she has spent a few naps and evenings that way.
This month Nora really started sitting up well. She will still topple over if left sitting for too long, but she's getting stronger and stronger. She's started taking a more consistent long nap in the mornings, and most afternoons we can get a longer stretch out of her too. She still has some days where she chooses to cat nap, but I feel like we're finally getting into more of a nap routine now.
Nora loves both of her big brothers and is always watching everything they do. One day I plopped her in this chair while Charlie was watching TV and she just sat there and watched right along with him. Too cute!!
Here is a little video Grandma Clayton took of Jack making Nora laugh:
Another new first: the hand-me-down doorway jumper from Aunt Kelly. She has fun in it, but only for short periods at a time.
Last month Nora sat in her high chair for the first time, but this month she actually got to eat food! We started cereal the week before she turned 6 months, and not unlike her brothers, she loved it!
Last month I was a little concerned because she had laid off the talking. Never fear! This month, Nora started up with her babbling again. She still hasn't gotten any teeth, and we think she is just so close!!
Here are some pictures from her 6 month photo shoot:
Here is a comparison of all 3 kids at 6 months. I'm embarrassed to admit how long I searched for Jack's monthly sticker photos only to (finally!) remember that I didn't do them for him (I didn't know about it then). I'm so bummed I don't have these for him, but we did get 6 month professional photos of him at least:
Jack, Charlie and Nora at 6 Months
One thing is clear in this comparison: we breed large babies in the Clayton house.
On May 4, Nora turned 5 months old. She tried a lot of new things in her 5th month!! We got out the exersaucer, the high chair and the Bumbo for her, and she thought she was such a big shot in all three! We hadn't started spoon feeding her yet, but thought she might enjoy sitting in the high chair while we eat, and we were right!!
In this 5th month, we stopped swaddling Nora at night. She loves to sleep with her arms up by her head and she loves this really small square lovey my friend Jamie bought her. She puts it on her face, so we have to go in and move it off as soon as she falls asleep. Thank goodness we have a video camera this go 'round so we can spy on her. She is still sleeping well, and I would say she sleeps through the night about 1/2 of the time. The nights she wakes up, we generally just give her the pacifier and she goes back to sleep.
Nora is putting EVERYTHING in her mouth and has started drooling like crazy. No teeth to show for yet, but it seems like they're on the way. She also grabs for anything that comes near her - we suddenly have to be a lot more careful when she's on our laps. She particularly loves my necklaces.
Our big girl just keeps getting bigger. She's solidly in 9 month clothing and can even wear many 12 month things. She's graduated to the size 3 diapers. She's not doing a ton of talking or making noise. She did for awhile, but this month it seems like she's fairly quiet. I did a little research (of course!) and learned that babies tend to focus on one skill at a time, so her verbal development could be on hold while she works on something else, which makes sense because our big shot ROLLED OVER on April 24th!! We were hanging out with our neighbors and just laying in the grass when she finally made it over. This was the after effect....
Here is Nora's 5 month photo shoot. Happy girl, and she loves to hold her own hands...
This month Nora started blowing raspberries too!! I don't have video evidence, but it's awfully cute!
