Matilda Rae is, simply put, a little angel. She is happy almost every second of the day and all she wants to do is go and play and explore. She has been standing up and walking holding on to the coffee table or couch for about a month now, but this morning she let go and took one little wobbly step all on her own. It was just too cute! The look on her face was as shocked as mine. She is still not even close to sleeping through the night, but she is skipping her night time feeding most nights now. She just wakes up once or twice and needs her pacifier and a pat on the back to get back to sleep. Jenn- I am so jealous of little Claire's 12 hour snoozes!
Here are some cute pics of miss Mattie over the last 6 weeks or so...
On the swings, her fav:
At the beach with Daddy:
Our little surfer girl:
Bed head and sleepy face like her Daddy (6:30 AM):
Big girl in Daddy's new truck:
With Mommy heading to Poe's for dinner (first bow in her hair!):
Little fatso happy in her highchair because she just ate:
Eddie and I say every day how incredibly lucky we are. We have a truly perfect baby. She goes everywhere with us without any problems and all of our friends (even D who hates babies!) love Matilda. She has started going to the library with Franma on Tuesday's for Mother Goose time and she just loves it! They read and sing and Matilda is enthralled. Franma says she holds her hands and walks around and steals the other kids her age pacifiers. She's just so giant (20 lbs and 30" now!), so she's the bully in the 7 mo old crowd...lol. Franma said she gets along better with the one year olds because they are able to play with her.
She is eating 3 meals and 3-4 (5 oz) milk feedings a day now and man can she eat. For breakfast she has oatmeal cereal with bananas and prunes most days and for lunch and dinner it's a wide variety of options. Her new fav is edamame, but corn and carrots are a close second. She also loves apples and pears mixed- that's usually her dessert. I make all her food for the week on Sundays and usually she sits in the kitchen in her highchair and helps me cook. :)
She also wants to try all of our food now. I let her try hummus the other day and she loved it! She also loves to gnaw on pizza crust- Mellow Mushroom is her preference (and Mom's).
Can't believe she will be 8 months old in a few days...I better start planning her one year birthday! Hahah!
