7 Months Old!

Our little girl turned 7 months old yesterday! She's definitely still our little girl. She weighed only 13 pounds 2 ounces and is about 25 1/2 inches long. So she's only in the 5th & 10th percentile for weight and height. I guess she's going to be a shorty like her mommy. This last month she's enjoyed trying all kinds of new foods. Fruits are definitely her favorite, no matter what it is, even prunes were a big hit. She'll eat her veggies first and when she acts full we'll give her a bite of fruit and she suddenly is starving for more! She also mastered sitting up finally. I'm pretty sure she's been able to do it for the last month and a half, but wouldn't give in till early this month. Once she figured out sitting she was able to learn how to balance herself, so now she can sit while playing with her toys.

I woke up one morning to find her sleeping on her stomach for the first time. We've been wondering when she was going to start this, because she'll roll all around in her crib.

About once or twice a month Kiana and I take a trip up to Colorado Spring to go to Baby Story Time at the public library. I started taking her when she was just two and a half months old, and she just loves it. They usually only read one picture book and rest of the time we sing nursery rhymes that interact with baby, then they play for about 15 minutes. Before she could take part in play time, she would just stare and watch all the other little kids. Kiana just loves the bouncing around and enjoys playing with other babies. Most of the babies that were there this time were within 5 and 8 months old, so Kiana wasn't the youngest, but most likely the smallest. The little girl in the yellow dress is actually 11 months old, she said her girl is tiny like Kiana. We haven't gone in about a month so this the first time I felt comfortable letting go of her in order to take a picture.

One of our friends is expecting a baby girl anytime now, Kiana is getting very excited to have a new baby play friend. A few weekends ago she had her baby shower, and the only thing she would ever tell me she wanted was diapers. This isn't her first kid so she has a lot of the main stuff already. I didn't want to just get her a pack of diapers so I thought I would do something more creative and make her a diaper cake. This is the first one I've make and thought it turned out pretty cute so I wanted to share it with you all in case anyone else needed a gift idea. The flowers are actually hair clips attached to headbands, then the flower on top is a rattle. It's being held together by a large bottle in the center of the bottom two tiers, then a large tube of butt paste between the middle and top tier.