7 Months!

In the first 6 months of her life, Nova learned all the basics.

She learned to lift her head, lie on her tummy, recognize faces, respond to sounds, use her voice, follow objects with her eyes, realize that she has hands and feet, smile, laugh, bear some weight on her legs, respond when people talk to her, distinguish between different colors, imitate sounds, roll over in both directions, blow bubbles, grasp objects, pass objects from hand to hand, start eating solid food, sit up with a little help and eventually sit up with almost no help, combine syllables and express different emotions using her tone of voice, recognize emotions and different tones in other people, and of course, figure out who Mom and Dad are and that she can decide when she wants to be held and by whom. (Yep…all this stuff had to be learned folks.)

After the 6 month milestone infant development begins to become more outward than inward and it’s crazy to watch my friends. In her 7th month, she has learned that she can get herself into a sitting position. She can lunge forward and grab something if she really wants it and if it’s too far out of reach she is figuring out how to wiggle, squirm, roll and drag herself over to it. She is also getting a really good handle on the fact that just because you can’t see something, it doesn’t mean it no longer exists. Combine that with her ever expanding vocabulary (ba-ba-ba-ba, da-da-da-da, mmmmmm, th-th-th-th, p-p-p-p, ya-ya-ya-ya) and the fact that she knows how to blow raspberries, scream for attention, cough when she’s hungry, and is learning the sign for “more” (check out some baby sign language right here) and we have a little, communicating person on our hands! She is developing personality in spades my friends.

Things she likes:

• scratchy beards (sometimes)
• peek-a-boo
• Mom’s hair waving in her face
• books
• quiet time
• mimicry (we do Tarzan and the Gorilla and a lot of nursery rhymes with hand actions)
• watching people talk
• playing with the remote control
• trying to get Mom’s cell phone
• banging her toys on her high chair
• banging her toys together
• standing up
• sitting up
• swimming
• bath time
• when anyone sings to her
• people watching
• Bella
• being talked to from across a room
• her bedroom
• many, many other things

Her major dislikes so far:

• loud, sudden noises (I don’t really like those either.)
• she’s got a little bit of stranger fear (it’s best to chat with her or me for a few minutes before trying to hold her)
• cauliflower
• classical music
• lying down on her back
• changing her clothes
• yelling

It is awesome watching her figure out her likes and dislikes and discovering how she chooses to express herself. She’s pretty cool.

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