Annabelle is 7 months old!

Oh my goodness, we're officially past the halfway mark of Annabelle's first year! I know - I say this every month - but I can't believe how fast it's going. It seems like yesterday that we were bringing her home from the hospital and getting settled in.

Annabelle is officially on the move. She started crawling last week and now nothing is safe. Everything is subject to baby investigation, which means it's going straight into her mouth to be tasted. It's been so long since we've had to baby proof! We're constantly remembering the small things - don't leave cords out in baby reach, pick up anything and everything off the floor that isn't baby tasteable, put up baby gates, put baby in baby containment device before leaving a room, etc. And we're having to teach Lily all of this stuff too. Luckily, she's learned pretty quickly that toys left out are going to be covered in baby slobber, so her toys are pretty consistently out of Annabelle's reach. She's also babbling away - lots of mamamama, and rararara and some dadadada scattered in there too. But her favorite by far is mama - I love it! Lily was a dadada girl, so this makes me happy :)

Annabelle hit either a growth spurt this month or several wonder weeks in a row, because sleeping has been somewhat of an issue. She's normally a great sleeper, but we definitely had a change in sleeping habits. I think she's starting to settle back into her routine, but it was a tired couple of weeks for us. We don't have a well check visit until 9 months, so we're not really sure what her stats are. But, we both agree that she's looking longer and feels heavier so I'm sure she's growing away! We started testing out some solids this month also and so far we've tried bananas, avocado, carrots, sweet potatoes, apples, pears, squash and blueberries. The squash and sweet potatoes have by far been the favorites - she really doesn't seem to be too big of a fan of the fruits yet.

Here's our sweet, 7 month old AnnaB!