The 6-month mark came and went in a flash, it seems! Now here we are at 7 months, and again, I'm late posting this...Sorry Molly, but Mom is doing her best to keep up with it!
New Skills: The most notable new skills this month include sitting up on your own, sometimes for many minutes before you get tired. We still pad pillows around you because you occasionally fall, but you're getting better at falling too (you ease yourself down most times, often holding your head up so that you don't get hurt). Another new skill (and my very favorite skill): You now entertain yourself and put yourself back to sleep in your crib! If you wake in the night, it's a rare occasion that we actually have to get up and check on you... we can hear you playing with your toys and blanky, sometimes for over an hour, but not a single cry before you're back to sleep on your own. We have scattered a bunch (maybe 8 or 9) binkies in the crib with you and you can proficiently find one, grab it, and put it in your mouth the right way, all by yourself. This means less trips for Mom or Dad to soothe you in the middle of the night (whew!). And speaking of sleeping, you do that well too! We're finally on a schedule with regular naps and consistent sleeping patterns at night. For some reason, you didn't take naps during your first 6 months of life - unless sporadic cat-naps counts. Now you take two solid 2-hour naps each day, and you wake between 6:30 and 7am.
Another fun month, Miss Molly! Each month is more fun than the last one!
