Oh my sweet, sweet girl. Every day is seriously getting more and more fun with you!! I had no idea how much fun having a little bestie with me all day every day is and I’m trying my absolute hardest to soak up every dang second with you!!! Honestly looking back, I wish I could tell my old self that I would have THE time of my life as your Mama and to embrace and be excited for this time in my life. Sure, there’s times where it’s hard or I feel unfulfilled as “just a Mom,” or where you’re fussing and my patience is gone, but honestly for the majority of the time-it’s absolute heaven on earth with you and that is the truth. Now my heart just aches as you grow a day older every night that I put you down for bed. Here’s to many more days of loving on your sweet cheeks, blonde hair, long lashes, and swoon worthy heart!! Happy S E V E N months my angel baby!!!! You are starting to scoot, very slowly but if you want something you will go and scoot to it after falling on your face a few times. It's frustrating for you, but so dang cute to watch!! You are sitting sooooooo well and aren't falling back on your head anymore. You are ticklish right above your hip bone and around your neck. You are starting to become more and more attached to me (Mom) and I absolutely love it!! Haha. You are laughing and smiling so dang much and it is too much fun!! Your favorite is to be flipped upside down or when Daddy comes home you coo and smile like crazy at his presence. We did a two week swim class today and oh my goodness how you loved it!! We dunked you twice a day, kicked in the water a ton, moved across the edge of the pool and threw you up in the air. The term "water baby" suits you to a T. Now every time we take you near or in the water, you can't stop cooing and splashing and kicking. It truly is your favorite!! We sleep trained you this month pretty strictly and you are doing so so good!!!! Now you cry for maybe 3-5 seconds when we put you down and then you just fall asleep. It truly is incredible!! You take 3-4 naps a day totaling two hours normally, sometimes three and you sleep most nights 12 hours straight through (sometimes 11 hours). We have started to slowlyyyy introduce food this month and you seem to like it, but mainly because you want to copy Mom and Dad haha. Grandma Checketts gave you some celery so that was technically your first food but then at home we gave you a taste of an acai bowl and you threw it straight up immediately after. So we waited another week to introduce food and now you eat teensy tiny bites of whatever we are eating. You have tried watermelon, lentils, hummus, tzatiki, limes, squash, broccoli, carrots, apples, rice, turkey pepperoni, chicken salad, avocado, almond milk, acai (you like it now haha), cucumber, sugar snap peas, spinach, kale, chia seeds, and the list goes on and on! We just give you 5-10 smallllllll bites every day of whatever we're eating. We were out to dinner with friends early August and handed you a small apple slice that we didn't realize you could bite into. Well you got a huge chunk of it out and choked on it. I had to punch your stomach to get it out. It's scary looking back but I was just so glad I knew what to do and how to do it. You still have only two teeth and seem to be getting some more due to your runny nose, drooling and grabbing at your gums. Everyone in public tells me how beautiful you are and how pretty your eyes are. You are still seriously such a dream baby, so much so that I took you to Mamma Mia 2 twice this month and didn't hardly make a peep! You loved to watch the singing and dancing. Every day we have some kind of dance party and it is your favorite thing to watch us dance and swing around with us. Dad is still holding out for you to be a basketball player, but I think you might be a dancer! haha who knows. You love riding in carts and I could literally take you anywhere and everywhere and you are so happy and content. Everyone and Dad and I always say how "chill" you are and I'm not sure if it's because Ian and I are and you absorb our energy or if that's how you came out. Either way, we are so so grateful and many many thanks to you we still want to have many more kids so I hope you like siblings! haha. I love you Ro with all of my heart and truly look forward to every single moment with you. You have given my life so much more purpose and direction as I want to be an amazing example to you that hopefully you will look up to one day. It is my absolute privilege to raise you (I mean I did get pregnant because WE wanted kids; I don't understand how some people think their kids owe them the rest of their lives for raising them when they were the ones that wanted kids but anywho haha) and I hope I can always keep that mentality so that you know how much of a privilege it is to be trusted by Heavenly Father to raise you as our daughter. Every single night I truly go to bed in gratitude for you. I love you more than anything!! Dad and I have so much dang fun with you!! XOXO
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