Dear Della Plum,
You turned seven months old on September 28th. We were busy this month enjoying the fall and doing all the necessary fun fall activities. We were on the go so much your knees barely touched the floor. Probably explains why you haven’t had any interest in crawling or scooting around yet. Your Dad made me a bet, he said that you would be crawling by 8 months. He now owes me a shopping trip. Thanks, Plum!
This month we also learned that we will most likely have to move. Your dad’s company wants to transfer him to their St. Cloud branch. I will try to put that in baby terms for you: Dada go bye-bye. Basically they want him to move away from where we live now. And since we kinda like Dad, we’ll probably have to go with him.
It’s sad, but also exciting. I don’t want to leave the house where we brought you home from the hospital, or the room that we worked so hard to build for you. However, if we move I will be able to leave my job and stay home with you during the day instead. We could make many new memories. For me, that is a pretty decent trade, so I’ll agree to the move. Now all we have to do is find a new house.
On top of looking at new houses, and getting our house ready to sell, we also took advantage of this beautiful fall! We went to the apple orchard and the pumpkin patch. You picked apples, went on a hayride, carved a pumpkin, went for a bike ride.
We went to Wabasha to see the leaves change colors. You were really interested in the Eagle Conservatory we visited there. The eagles caught your attention and you were mesmerized, that hasn’t happened too often, you are usually the one trying to get people to notice you.
Here is what else you’ve been up to this month:
- We are continuing to work on pureed foods. We’ve also introduced you to some finger foods, like bananas, bread, and the almighty PUFFS. You literally go GAGA over puffs.
- You are sleeping more consistently through the night. We are totally cheating, by the way. Against everything we have ever learned from the baby books, we are putting you to bed asleep. Since you are getting more to eat during the day, we have cut out your dreamfeed. I now only nurse you at 7:00pm and let you fall asleep. This way you usually stay sleeping until morning and we no longer have a three hour battle before bed. We may regret this habit we are creating later, but I hope not. For now, this works and we can have our peaceful evenings back. Plus, I love snuggling you to sleep.
What else can I say, this has been a great month! We had so much fun with you, and we are happy we can take you to lots of different places and share these experiences with you with ease.
A lot of changes are on the horizon. I know you can handle them though, you are such an easy going kid (except when it comes to sleep, of course.) The way you are maturing and absorbing everything, I can tell big things are going to be happening for you soon too.
Love you so much, Plum! Stay super sweet.
Love,
Mama
you have a beautiful family. congrats. enjoyed the pics as well.
Posted by: Orlando OBGYN | February 28, 2012 at 03:14 PM