6 and 7 Month Update

Savanna has grown and accomplished so much over the last 2 months, I don't even know where to begin.  I looked back at my 5 month post and saw that I thought it was going to be awhile before she would sit. Sure enough out of no where one day (which is how most things come) around 5.5 months she decided she wanted to sit.  

She was very wobbly at first, we had a lot of falls but by 6.5 months she was very steady and at the same time learned how to get herself from belly back to sit.  She now sits all the time and a lot of mornings we find her sitting in her crib.  I am in love with her little frog sit.  

Around 6.5 months she started to one-arm army crawl and then about two weeks later she was crawling on all 4s a little but will switch to the one arm for long distances.  We are in a good stage right now where she can crawl to get most things she wants, but she is not necessarily all over the place.  She will not crawl from room to room so I can still shower, cook, clean etc.. and she will sit in play.  I know this will not last....

I also thought she would never eat or it would be a constant fight, well just like everyone told me, they will eat when they were ready. Sure enough out of no where one day she decided she wanted to eat and she EATS now! Sometimes I think she is a bottomless pit and will continue to eat if I do not stop (if she really likes something). We are slowly introducing foods, trying to wait 3 days in-between each food.  She cannot have soy or milk still, so I have to be careful with some foods and make sure to read ingredients on all boxes.  She loves when we give her pasta (with no cheese) which is a treat when we go out to eat.  She recently learned how to pick up her puffs when you put some on the tray of the highchair.  It took her a few weeks especially since they stick to her hands when they are wet.  The puffs are the only thing she can grab on her own because most of the other items that I give to her in pieces (banana and avocado) are wet and stick to the tray. 

Over the last two months you can tell she really knows her name and smiles every time you call it.  She now recognizes and will smile to familiar songs - itsy bitsy spider, wheels on the bus...... She loves peek-a-boo and playing in the mirror.  She also loves turning the lights on and off when we leave a room. Chris has been trying for a long time to get Savanna to recognize and acknowledge dogs and finally over the last month she does!  At my friends wedding at Martha Clara there was a barn and they had some farm animals there and Savanna seemed to really enjoy watching them.  Now she smiles every time she sees a dog. 

We are working on waving and clapping, but she can high 5 which is fun. She really loves her swimming class now and laughs almost the entire time.  It ends next week, but with the summer here hopefully we will have a lot of pool time.  I think that is all for now :)