The Leopold Family: 7 months

Elizabeth Leopold is now 7 months old. She definitely has her own personality now and will let you know when she is unhappy. I love that she is learning and doing so much now that it is hard to even remember everything now. At six months she was moved to the next room at her daycare and let me tell you, she is a learning machine. She can now pull herself up on just about anything and she go from laying down to sitting up all on her own. It is hard to leave her by herself to play anymore because she will get herself in a bind almost every time. We now have to change her diapers and clothes inside her crib because she is a rolly polly and won't sit still. Also because she is pulling up, her Daddy had to lower her mattress on the crib. We have only seen her do it once but that was enough! At seven months, she is eating everything except green beans which she will spit out if we try and give them to her... I tell you, a mind of her own! She has even been snacking on rice rusks and the little Gerber melt in your mouth snacks... not sure what they are called. Greg, of course, is the BIGGEST worry wart every and hates that she is moving on to more solid foods. He has this very big fear of choking so I guess he is just being a worried father. I half to remind him often that she will have to start eating food at some point! We are currently in the process of switching out her six month clothes to the 6-9 month clothes. She is growing like a weed! Elizabeth loves to smile and screech when she is happy. Put on any kind of music and watch her dance. It is probably the funniest thing I have ever seen a baby do. She groans and moans when she is tired. Still no teeth, but I think they might be coming soon... we will see. We have been very blessed with such a happy baby. She sleeps so good and is just happy almost all the time.

We have also been blessed that she has not been sick much. After we got out of the cold months, Elizabeth has not been sick... that is up until her seven month birthday. All day Friday she was her fun and happy self but sometime Friday night after she went to bed she got really restless. At the time I just thought she was not sleeping well but about 5am she started crying so I woke up and went to make her a bottle and get a diaper to change her. When I picked her up, she was hot and I mean really hot. So, I took her temperature and it was 101. I was thinking to myself it sure is a good thing I pack her Tylenol and such but then I remembered Greg packed on Friday since I was working late... yep, no syringe to get the medicine out with! I then went and woke my mom up and told her to watch her while I run to Walmart to get some medicine. Elizabeth was not having her milk that morning either which really freaked me out. This girl loves her morning bottle. When I got back, I gave some medicine and she feel asleep again. When the doctor's office opened, I called and made an appointment. When she woke up however, she was happy again and actually ate her cereal and fruit. We made the long trek to Sugar Land where the doctor checked her out. She doesn't have any ear infections and everything looked good except her throat. She swabbed her for strep but thankfully she didn't have that either. The doctor said it could just be a virus that has to run its course. She told us just to continue the Advil for the fever and if it keeps up to come back in after two days. Sunday Elizabeth was a completely different baby and just as happy as can be. Of course her mommy is tired... very tired.

Since Elizabeth slept almost all day on Saturday (her actual 7 month birthday) we did our photo shoot on Sunday. It is getting harder and harder to get these pictures because she doesn't want to sit still. I didn't realize that I haven't posted some of the funny pictures of her the last couple of weeks... so you are about to see a picture overload!

This is how we find Elizabeth in the mornings... legs and arms tucked under her, mouth wide open!